SciTegic Launches ISV Partner Program and First Five Members Join
SciTegic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc., announced today a strategic partner program to expand the applications offered on Pipeline Pilot, the leading data pipelining environment in discovery informatics. By helping independent software vendors (ISV) make their scientific applications available on Pipeline Pilot, the program positions Pipeline Pilot as the open standard for life sciences interoperability.
“Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies employ software tools from many different vendors. SciTegic is opening up its framework to these ISVs so they can make their applications available to our established user base,” commented Matt Hahn, vice president & general manager of SciTegic. “By providing customers with access to a wider range of technologies, Pipeline Pilot will allow its users to further streamline and integrate the tools they use every day.”
Five scientific software companies have already signed up as members of the program: Equbits, Molecular Networks, Virtual Chemistry, ChemNavigator and Barnard Chemistry.
“We are pleased to join SciTegic’s ISV Program so we can provide integrated cheminformatics applications to our customers,” said Jean-Pierre Kocher, CEO of Molecular Networks. “This new alliance will give our joint customers a comprehensive integration solution that substantially increases research and development efficiencies.”
“Integration of our 3DPL virtual screening technology with Pipeline Pilot will allow computational scientists to easily build and deploy 3D virtual screens used in library analysis and compound selection,” said Scott Hutton, CEO of ChemNavigator. “Using Pipeline Pilot, scientists can easily share and reuse these screens.”
“Initially we are making our clustering and fingerprint generation technologies available as web services within Pipeline Pilot. This will make the tools much more accessible to end users,” says founder-Director John Barnard.
About SciTegic
SciTegic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL – News), develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company has pioneered a technology approach called “Data Pipelining” to process drug discovery data with unprecedented flexibility. This methodology has established its utility by accelerating informatics research for thousands of users at hundreds of customer sites worldwide. Further information about SciTegic is available at: www.scitegic.com .
About Molecular Networks
Molecular Networks ( http://www.mol-net.com/ ) is a provider of molecular modeling and cheminformatics tools.
About ChemNavigator
ChemNavigator ( http://www.chemnavigator.com/ ) develops cheminformatics databases and software technology for drug discovery.
About Barnard Chemical Information
Barnard Chemical Information ( http://www.bci.gb.com/ ) specializes in cheminformatics software, producing fingerprint, clustering, and Markush-based combinatorial library analysis software.
About Equbits
Equbits ( http://www.equbits.com/ ) provides predictive modeling software designed for accuracy, automation, and interpretability. Equbits applies advanced machine learning techniques including Support Vector Machines to QSAR predictive modeling in an easy to use, intuitive software application geared towards HTS and ADME chemists.
About Virtual Chemistry
Virtual Chemistry ( http://www.virtualchemistry.com/ ) provides innovative informatics software and services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
