Drug discovery cloud service enables collaboration

With no software to manage or hardware to maintain, using cloud services can significantly reduce IT cost. ScienceCloud by Accelrys is a new information management and collaboration workspace to assist with collaborative drug discovery using integrated applications built on a scalable, cloud-based platform. It provides secure, real-time transfer of project data and project-centered IP storage in a secure information warehouse and enforces sponsor business rules on results posted by network partners. Accessible by Web and mobile devices, the capabilities include collaborative project management, experiment and IP capture, custom business rules extension, mobile device enablement, and publishing and sharing services. Accelrys Inc.