SciTegic Launches New Sequence Analysis Collection
SciTegic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), is pleased to announce the release of the Sequence Analysis Collection for SciTegic’s data pipelining software, Pipeline Pilot(TM), one of the leading data pipelining environment in discovery informatics.
With the Sequence Analysis Collection, it is now possible to analyze, annotate, and compare biological sequences in an environment where modular tools can be linked together effortlessly to create practical bioinformatics routines. SciTegic’s pipelining platform has been well validated in other informatics disciplines, and has been deployed in cheminformatics for five years.
“This newest collection is only the first step towards supporting the expanding role of bioinformatics in the drug target validation process,” said Mathew Hahn, Ph.D., vice president & general manager of SciTegic. “We have been very successful in helping our chemistry clients address real-world informatics challenges, and we will provide the same level of commitment to ensure the success of our customers in other life science domains.”
While over fifty bioinformatics tools have been incorporated into the collection, the unique strength of the system is how easily customers can integrate additional in-house algorithms and third party software tools. For example, it is now possible to combine GCG(R) Wisconsin Package(TM) tools and open source software components quickly using the Pipeline Pilot informatics architecture.
“Pipeline Pilot software has enhanced our ability to integrate data from a variety of internal sources and has supported the automation of our processes, without the need to build custom software,” said Michael R. Pear, Ph.D., director of Research Informatics at Isis Pharmaceuticals. “The new Sequence Analysis Collection allowed us to quickly apply Pipeline Pilot to our sequence-centric problems. The capabilities in Pipeline Pilot for integration, property calculation, and data flow have proven useful in cheminformatics and are now applicable to our bioinformatics processes.”
About SciTegic
SciTegic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. SciTegic 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 .
