Simulations Plus, Inc. (AMEX:SLP – News), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced that it has released version 5.2 of its flagship GastroPlus(™) simulation software product.

Dr. Viera Lukacova, GastroPlus software product manager and Team Leader for Simulation Technologies, said: “This latest release of GastroPlus adds several important improvements to the PBPKPlus(™) and PDPlus(™) add-on modules as well as many convenience features for our users. The number of improvements is significant, but most of the details are quite technical. For the purposes of this press release, we’ll simply say that some new features provide greater accuracy for certain types of simulations, while other new features allow users to generate and visualize simulation results in more convenient ways. The entire purpose is, of course, to provide increased quality and quantity of information to our users to allow them to make better project decisions.”

Ron Creeley, vice president of marketing and sales for Simulations Plus, added: “GastroPlus has become the gold standard for its type of software, and we’re now getting reports from the field that GastroPlus simulation results are becoming required in many of their internal project reports. It continues to provide the highest revenues of all of our software products, and it is the basis for the majority of our consulting contracts.”