Pipeline Pilot provides users the ability to standardize, automate, and deploy best practice processes within their organizations. Using capabilities such as Design Mode, protocol versioning, validation, and the newly released Protocol Comparison feature, scientific developers can create, edit and deploy protocols. Protocols can be made available in a wide variety of end-user clients and programmatic interfaces. In many respects, these capabilities match processes and practices used by software engineers for developing their software applications.

Join us for this webinar as we cover best practices for Pipeline Pilot protocol authors including creating, maintaining, updating and deploying protocols within your organization.

Join us as we highlight numerous enhancements made to the NGS collection with the release of Pipeline Pilot 8.5 Collection Update 1 (CU1). Major internal Accelrys R&D efforts on the NGS collection have produced more new functionality than is warranted for a collection update release. We will share vast enhancements made to the collection in areas of performance, enterprise readiness, third party tool integration and increased application specific example protocols. Enhancements were driven by customer feedback and  designed to minimize efforts on users  in order to get to relevant results faster.

Collection Update 1 for Pipeline Pilot 8.5 includes key new features for the Pipeline Pilot Client, as well as the Imaging, Next Gen Sequencing, Chemistry, Documents and Text, and Statistics and Modeling collections. An exciting new feature for the Pipeline Pilot Client is Protocol Comparison – the ability to compare protocols, or versions of protocols, allowing you to see and resolve differences between them.

Join us for this webinar in which we’ll demonstrate Protocol Comparison, as well as covering key features from the other updated collections.

Join Ted Pawela, Sr. Director of Materials Product Marketing, for this webinar in showcasing the new features and enhancements in the Pipeline Pilot Materials Studio Collection (MSC).  The Materials Studio Collection automates repetitive tasks and enables expert modelers to deploy validated methods to other scientists and materials researchers.  Enhancements in the Materials Studio Collection for Pipeline Pilot 8.5 include new property calculations for polymers, polymorph screening, crystal structure and property computation, comparison of models with experimental data, and other capabilities that put computational materials science on the path of mainstream scientific operations.  This webcast will highlight application of these capabilities to polymers and crystallization applications in pharmaceutical development, chemicals, electronics, and other industries that rely on materials innovation for competitive differentiation.

At the core of Accelrys’ product portfolio, Pipeline Pilot represents the glue that holds together many key processes within scientific organizations. Pipeline Pilot is used by scientists to address their specific needs for data integration, mining, analysis, reporting and visualization, and developers who want to publish repeatable processes to their broader scientific enterprise.  

Discovery Studio, Isentris, Biological and Chemical Registration, and Symyx Notebook by Accelrys all use Pipeline Pilot to provide scientific data handling and analysis capabilities. While much of the integration happens behind the scenes, a working knowledge of Pipeline Pilot itself, as well as how it integrates with other Accelrys products, can provide even greater value to you. Join us for this introductory webinar as we cover many of the basics of Pipeline Pilot, providing a sound understanding of Pipeline Pilot’s core capabilities including how it integrates with other Accelrys products.  

Join Tim Moran, Director at Accelrys, for this webinar in which he will showcase the new features and enhancements in the Pipeline Pilot Imaging Collection. The basic and advanced imaging collections have been combined in an effort to simplify the end user experience. Key themes for Imaging in the Pipeline Pilot 8.5 release include: ease of use, 3D Imaging, Machine Learning and Data Management Integration. Example protocols will include: 3D labeling and viewing, crystal classification, drag select object training and automated classification, high content screening and more.

Accelrys' Partner, ACD/Labs provides industry accredited solutions for physicochemical, ADME, and Toxicity predictions as well as IUPAC and CAS-Index type nomenclature; tools that have been available for use in Pipeline Pilot for many years. In response to customer requests, ACD/Labs has recently exposed new functionality in analytical data handling to the pipeline pilot environment. The new component collection allows end users to exploit their support of over 100 vendor file formats across NMR, LC/GC/MS, vibrational (UV/IR/Raman), and other techniques such as DSC, TGA, and XRPD. Their powerful algorithms can be used to provide advanced processing, interpretation, structure verification, and analytical knowledge management, and provide a standardized environment for analytical data handling and collaborative research. Join us to learn how ACD/Labs tools can aid your R&D efforts.

This presentation will introduce new features and functionality in Statistics in Pipeline Pilot 8.5. Topics include robust fitting of dose-response curves using Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS), and model coefficient error bars. New Prototype Statistical Components will be introduced as well, including SAS JMP integration components and Design of Experiment (DOE) components.

This latest update to our enterprise R&D platform introduces new and enhanced capabilities focused on improved system performance, usability, and security, while offering access to enhanced science through Pipeline Pilot's various collections. Some of the major enhancements include: Windows Integrated Authentication, updates to the Chemistry, NGS, Imaging, and Materials Studio Collections, and much more. Join us for this hour as we provide an overview of the Pipeline Pilot 8.5 release, we will schedule additional webinars to drill into specific functionality for some of the major updates.

The Documents and Text Collection (DTC) for Pipeline Pilot combines the former Text Analytics and ChemMining Collections into a single component set, focused on finding, analyzing, and displaying information from text and documents. A key use of the DTC is to enhance and support the analysis of experimental data generated during your research projects. To do this, the DTC offers broad capabilities, including the ability to search and retrieve documents from online (e.g., PubMed, US & WO Patents) and local (e.g., SharePoint) repositories, and to crawl web sites to gather supporting data and competitive intelligence. For deeper text analytic methods and to integrate with other applications you may have access to, Pipeline Pilot and the DTC also integrate with 3rd party text analytics applications and technologies such as Linguamatics I2E and the UIMA framework.

The DTC enables you to:
   a. Enrich scientific reports with pointers to, and visualizations of latest literature
   b. Analyze and highlight key biological or chemical concepts
   c. Customize internal/external scientifically-aware search portals
   d. Integrate and supplement various text analytics vendor technologies

This webinar will cover many of these capabilities using specific example use-cases, including highlighting new features of the DTC in Pipeline Pilot 8.5.

With increasing pressure to reduce their IT costs, organizations are asking, “How much value do we get from our software licenses and does it justify the price?”  Using an approach developed at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and highlighted as best practice in the Harvard Business Review, Axios Partners led a customer value research team in developing equations to quantify the value, collecting data from customers, and benchmarking the value of Accelrys’ Pipeline Pilot platform.  During this webinar, Axios Managing Director, Eric Berggren, will review the methodology, the process, the sources of value, and the results.  Research participants found the Pipeline Pilot project results to be very useful internally, and many expressed a desire to apply this methodology to their other software purchases.  Can you afford not to measure the value of your IT spend?

The Accelrys electronic lab notebook (ELN) now enables access to Pipeline Pilot, offering scientists capabilities that accelerate experiment design, execution and analysis from within the ELN.  In this webinar we'll take a closer look at how Symyx Notebook by Accelrys and Pipeline Pilot work together to enhance productivity for scientists. We'll show you how Pipeline Pilot's library of re-usable scientific components can help you:

• Rapidly deliver new capabilities to scientists using GUI development tools
• Exploit experiment design, analysis and reporting functions in the ELN to improve productivity
• Gain new insights into experiments through scientific analytics

Human Hepatocarcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Leveraging  the Imaging Collection for Pipeline Pilot, Sanofi-Aventis has developed an automated workflow for quantifying vascular organization in tumors and tumor cell apoptosis, to help achieve the ultimate end goal of developing innovative therapies for HCC.

Join Keith Neil, Image Informatics Project Manager at Sanofi-Aventis, as he walks us through a digital image analysis process for the study of immunohistological slides of CD105 vascular organization and cleaved caspase-3 apoptosis quantification in both liver tumors and corresponding healthy tissue, as well as his experience with Accelrys imaging tools.

Through the introduction of a range of new functionality, Pipeline Pilot 8.0 improves the speed and quality of scientific innovation, meets the security and scalability needs of the enterprise, and enables superior collaboration for research teams.

Join us for this overview session to learn how:

• The new Design Mode and Data Watch Windows make it faster and easier to build and debug protocols.
• Many new enhancements to the Imaging, Chemistry and Statistics Collections will provide deeper and more comprehensive scientific capabilities. We will go in-depth into these Collections in future webinars.
• Extended platform support, database management, server load monitoring and the ability to set access permissions at the folder level or user role enable Pipeline Pilot to meet the security and scalability needs of your scientific and IT communities.
• Enhanced integration with SharePoint Server 2007 and new Reporting Collection capabilities will help you and your teams communicate quickly and effectively.

Each of these topics will be discussed in-depth in future webinars. This session is intended to be an overview of new features found in the latest release of Pipeline Pilot.

Pipeline Pilot 8.0 includes significant changes to the Pipeline Pilot Professional Client and the Reporting Collection. Join us for this webinar in which we'll discuss and demonstrate changes to the Pro Client that make it faster and easier to build and debug protocols, and enhancements to the Reporting Collection that will help you and your teams communicate quickly and effectively.

Key enhancements that will be highlighted include:

• Pro Client Design Mode and Watch Windows, which streamline the process of building and debugging protocols
• Enhanced component/protocol searching, that retains favorites and provides suggestions
• Protocol profiling, to find bottlenecks and speed up protocol optimization
• For the Reporting Collection, we cover the introduction of Format and Position Styles, several new components, and how you can add much more interactivity in your reports, allowing you to explore and mine your data

This session will focus on the many new enhancements to the Imaging Collection including a comprehensive supported set of image file formats and a wide range of commercial and open source image processing applications. In addition, an interactive viewer within Pipeline Pilot, has been developed for viewing, annotating and processing images of all sizes providing the scientific enterprise with a single platform for all R&D image informatics. Learn how to apply state of the art learning and modeling techniques to image regions for advanced processing and analysis.

Join us for a discussion of the many enhancements made to the Data Modeling, Advanced Data Modeling, R Statistics and Chemistry Collections with the latest release of the Pipeline Pilot platform.

Statistics updates include model applicability domain (MAD) support for all learners in all three collections, helping you ensure that the models you build are applied properly when making predictions, and allowing you to assess the prediction accuracy for specific samples. Model evaluation viewers for both regression and classification models allow you to easily compare multiple models to determine which is best. We will cover new options for computing distances (dissimilarities) between samples for clustering, similarity searching, and applicability domain calculations. These options give you greater flexibility in determining how distances are computed, including the option to allow (and correct for) missing data.

Enhancements to the Chemistry Collection improve the way chemical knowledge is stored and communicated throughout the enterprise. Updates include better and more customizable molecular depictions in reports and the addition of new components to support chemical registration and interaction with chemical databases.

In today's environment, research organizations are under extreme pressure to increase the pace and productivity of the innovation cycle. IT is feeling the same pressure as they are a critical element in helping internal customers achieve these business objectives. Learn how Pipeline Pilot optimizes scientific collaboration via Microsoft SharePoint, automates scientific workflows and addresses the needs of the scientific enterprise. The result? IT managers are better able to align resources with objectives, control costs and improve internal customer satisfaction.