For haptics to get cheaper, there must be recognisable added value and the field of medical simulation is an obvious start, she said.

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Ignoring accounting benefits, Accelrys will still need to prove to investors that it can extract value from being the early leader in chem-informatics and nanoscale modeling and simulation software.

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The simulation runs forward in time for three weeks in order to approximate the value of having a truck and driver at a certain location at a certain time, and gets a first result.

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