Synopsys Releases Version 2.0 of its Accord for Microsoft Excel Chemical
Spreadsheet Under Windows

April 15, 1996 -- Synopsys Scientific Systems Ltd. today released Version
2.0 of its innovative chemical spreadsheet, Accord for Microsoft Excel
under Windows. This new, improved version provides full support for
reactions, advanced stereochemical searching and includes a host of other
exciting enhancements. 

Accord for Excel provides scientists with a full range of chemical
facilities to manage, analyse and search chemical 'objects' and associated
data within Microsoft's popular spreadsheet environment. Only with Accord
for Excel can users insert chemical structures, reactions and substituents
directly into spreadsheet cells with retained "chemical awareness". This
unique feature of the software allows chemically-meaningful functions to
be linked to chemical cells for calculating derived properties, such as
molecular weight, percentage composition or Log P. In addition, operations
on chemical tables, such as R-group analysis and substructure filtering,
can be performed directly within Excel. 

Version 2.0 of Accord for Excel provides full support for handling reaction
information. Data can be imported and exported to and from chemical
databases in a number of standard formats, including RD, SMD and SMILES.
Users can also transfer data sets of interest from relational tables in
Accord for Microsoft Access to Accord for Excel for chemical spreadsheet
analysis - all at the push of a button. 

Stereochemical searching in Accord for Excel is now extremely
sophisticated. Absolute, absolute unknown and relative designations can be
used to define stereocentres. The following stereochemical moieties are
all handled: tetrahedral carbon, sulphur etc.; allenes; olefins; hindered
biaryl rotomers; square planar, trigonal bipyramidal, square pyramidal and
octahedral metal complexes. 

Tony Cook, Software Development Manager at Synopsys, commented: "There's a
lot to get excited about in this new release. Excel 5 features, such as
Workbooks and AutoFilter mode, are now fully supported and performance of
chemical table operations, such as R-group analysis, are up to eight times
faster! This, combined with chemical representation enhancements, such as
stereochemical searching, full reaction support and aromatic SMILES, make
Version 2.0 a must-have upgrade." 

Development of Accord for Excel has been facilitated by Synopsys' status as
a Microsoft Solution Provider. A Microsoft's spokesperson commented:
"Microsoft's Solution Provider initiative is all about working closely
with our strategic partners to enable superior customer solutions, that
utilise Microsoft core technology, to be brought to market. Our
relationship with Synopsys is fundamental to providing Microsoft Office
users with the functionality [net is required to manage, analyse and
manipulate chemical data." 

Compatibility

Version 2.0 of Accord for Excel is compatible with Microsoft Excel 4.0 &
5.0 and Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher; Version 2.0 on the Macintosh is
scheduled for release in the next quarter and an Excel 7.0 compatible,
32-Bit Edition will be released later this year. Popular chemical editors,
such as ChemDraw, ChemWindow and ISIS/Draw, can be used to enter and
modify structures, reactions and queries. 

Accord for Excel - Availability & Pricing

Version 2.0 of Accord for Excel under Windows is available now and is
priced at 495 ($695 in the USA); a 40% discount is available to academics
and students. The upgrade price for existing users is 125 ($ 145 in the
USA). 

Background Information

Accord for Excel, Synopsys' best-selling chemical spreadsheet, is used by
thousands of chemists worldwide. Because Accord enables Excel to
understand chemistry the way chemists do - using the language of
structural diagrams - its intuitive and easy to use. Based on an open
systems, component software architecture and utilising OLE 2.0 integration
standards, Accord for Excel provides an innovative, new approach to
meeting the chemical data analysis needs of chemists and IT professionals.


Synopsys Scientific Systems is a leading provider of computerised
scientific information products and services to the Pharmaceutical, Fine
Chemical and Biotechnology Industry. Synopsys' flagship Accord software
range is used worldwide by scientists to transfonn raw chemical data into
useful information. Synopsys has offices in Europe, Japan and the USA. 

Synopsys Scientific Systems Ltd
175 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 3AR
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44(0)113 245 3339
Facsimile: +44(0)113 243 8733
Internet: sales@synopsys.co.uk
 
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