SciTegic is a San Diego-based software company that develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function...

 and biotechnology

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

 industries. It was founded in February, 1999 by Matthew Hahn and David Rogers. SciTegic has pioneered a technology approach called "Data Pipelining" to flexibly process drug discovery data. In 2004 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys

Accelrys

Accelrys is a software company headquartered in the US, with representation in Europe and Japan. It provides software for chemical, materials and bioscience research for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, energy and chemical industries.Accelrys started in 2001...

 after a 21.5 million dollar deal http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040915/news_1b15calbrfs.html.

The data pipelining software uses a Visual Programming Language much like LabVIEW

LabVIEW

LabVIEW is a system design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. LabVIEW provides engineers and scientists with the tools needed to create and deploy measurement and control systems.The graphical language is named "G"...

for piping input and output of commands together to build a pipeline to transform any number of inputs (raw data) into any number of outputs (e.g., a spreadsheet tying together the results of multiple experiments).