New functionality in image analysis and bioinformatics, along with enterprise enhancements, increase product breadth and usability in version 6.0 of SciTegic Pipeline Pilot
Accelrys has announced the sixth generation of SciTegic Pipeline Pilot, a platform for scientific discovery and development.
Pipeline Pilot 6.0 features major new functionality in the areas of image analysis and bioinformatics, while enterprise enhancements make it easier to define and deploy protocols to a broader audience.
Product usability of advanced functions for new users is significantly increased with the introduction of new script and SQL editors.
The latest release of Pipeline Pilot will enable developers to more easily create and run customized components that integrate web services using Soap technology.
Additional tools will enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to integrate and distribute their technologies.
Administrators will have greater flexibility to manage access rights to the protocol and component database.
New component parameter functionality, including grouping, validation, and enablement, streamlines the user interface, exposing only relevant options, and catching user errors before they occur.
New script and database query editors will provide non-expert users greater flexibility for constructing powerful customized components.
Coinciding with the release of Pipeline Pilot 6.0, new and enhanced component collections will be available to provide a robust range of tools for building diverse analysis protocols.
The new imaging component collection will enable users to create protocols to process, analyse, and manipulate images from sources such as tissue staining, microscopy, bioluminescence, and high-content screening applications.
The new biomining component collection for annotating biological data with both internal and external data sources complements the existing sequence analysis collection by retrieving and aggregating the many publicly available sources of genomic information.
The updated chemistry component collection will include a new, extensible bioisosters component for exploring potential modifications to a compound.
The absorption distribution metabolism excretion toxicity (Admet) collection provides new metabolite components for searching metabolic pathways.
New features within the reporting component collection will make it easier for users to create reporting dashboards that provide high level data summaries that interactively link to more detailed reports.
"Pipeline Pilot users and administrators will experience immediate benefits from the usability enhancements and new science in this release," said Mark Emkjer, president and CEO of Accelrys.
"Our ISV partners will also benefit as they take advantage of our new tools to make their technology accessible to Pipeline Pilot users."
