The company was founded in February 1999 by Mathew A. Hahn and David Rogers.
[1] Mathew Hahn and David Rogers came from the bioinformatics software company Molecular Simulations.
[4] A streamlined workflow could then be used by bench scientists and reduce the need to interact with multiple software packages to one interface.
[5] This software uses a visual and dataflow programming language much like LabVIEW for piping input and output of commands together to build a pipeline to transform any number of inputs (raw data) into any number of outputs (e.g., a spreadsheet tying together the results of multiple experiments).
Mathew Hahn assumed technical leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer, for Accelrys after the acquisition.