Aventis Pharmaceuticals Selects SciTegic's Pipeline Pilot for Global Cheminformatics Applications.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--April 15, 2002 SciTegic(TM) Inc. today announced the sale and installation of Pipeline Pilot(TM) at Aventis Pharmaceuticals. This software system employs a novel approach to processing drug discovery data through flexible automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. pipelines for faster data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a and analysis. The result of a collaborative global licensing deal, Pipeline Pilot is now being used by Aventis scientists around the world to accelerate their informatics Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. research. "Aventis is setting a strategic collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. with SciTegic at the enterprise level and we are extremely excited about Pipeline Pilot," said Abdel Laoui, Ph.D., US Head of Chemoinformatics, Aventis Pharmaceuticals. "It greatly reduces the complexity and amount of code that a developer must write, provides a rich set of components for common data processing/analysis operations, and enables re-use of novel components by other users which foresee fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. knowledge sharing. The resulting global platform will lead to a simplification of the method development process, and also greatly speed up the process of data analysis." "Aventis has extraordinary cheminformatics resources and they have become a great partner for us. Their adoption of Pipeline Pilot for enterprise deployment is an excellent endorsement for us," said Mathew Hahn, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SciTegic. "Pipeline Pilot users will be able to make better use of their research data, benefiting from performance and flexibility advantages over conventional informatics technologies." About SciTegic SciTegic Inc., is a privately held San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. company which develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets. The company is pioneering a new technology approach called "data pipelining" to process drug discovery data with unprecedented flexibility. This new methodology is fast establishing its utility by accelerating informatics research for hundreds of users at dozens of customer sites worldwide. Further information about SciTegic is available on the world wide Web at: www.scitegic.com. |
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