The Holiday Season is here again, and as we leave our work places, and head for various family and friends gatherings - we can pause a little and reflect on our past year's accomplishments. As I sat down to list our latest achievements, I realized that many of them are already documented in our blog which we use to keep in touch with many of you. You can find there the release of eHiTS 2009.0, a state of the art docking and screening application that has been the first to be ported to IBM's Cell B/E processor. Just recently we updated our tools with the release of eHiTS 2009.1 - an important upgrade version, which fixes some instability issues, improves the accuracy of docking, and introduces several new features. With this version, we are at the top of the performance on the Astex - GOLD validation set as you can read below. We also confirmed that eHiTS 2009 is a great tool for blind docking - see it in the Science section of this newsletter. This year we have also significantly improved our retrosynthetic analysis tool: ARChem - Route Designer, with a dramatic increase in the available reaction data sources via our collaboration with Elsevier and Symyx, better and faster algorithms, and no hassle on-line services. However, we are most proud of the fact that our tools are now widely used in the industry and the in academia, this is best showcased by the success stories of our users. Hopefully many more of these success stories will come next year.

We wish you Happy Holidays, and look forward to working with you next year,

Aniko Simon, PhD
Vice President, SimBioSys Inc.

Newsletter Content:

1. New product releases
2. Science & Technology
3. Success stories from our users
4. Partnerships

1. New product releases

2. Science & Technology

3. Success stories from our users

4. Partnerships