1. © Copyright 2002 Frost & Sullivan. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Computational Software Markets for Discovery Phase Research in Life Sciences Need for Research Knowledge Management and Pre- configured Informatics Databases Drives Computational Tools Market “As most research processes are highly collaborative, the need to maintain the integrity of studies from their initiation to completion, or standardize data across multiple research environments is vital.” Telemedicine Analyst Team Frost & Sullivan

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5. © Copyright 2002 Frost & Sullivan. All Rights Reserved. Accelrys, Inc. Agilent Technologies, Inc. Avaki Corp. Celera / Applera Corp. Chemical Computing Group, Inc. Columbia S&TV IBM Life Sciences/ IBM Corp. LION Bioscience AG MDL Information Systems, Inc. Molecular Mining Corp. Oracle Corp. Platform Computing, Inc. Rosetta Biosoftware/ Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC SAS Institute, Inc. Schrodinger, Inc. Spotfire, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Tripos, Inc. United Devices, Inc. Key Market Participants

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