SciTegic and NovoDynamics Announce the Release of Decision Trees for Pipeline Pilot; New Co-Marketing Agreement

October 15, 2003
San Diego, CA and Ann Arbor, MI

SciTegic® and NovoDynamics® today announce the release of the Decision Trees Collection for SciTegic's data pipelining software, Pipeline Pilot™. Based on NovoDynamics' innovative ArborPharm™ product, the component collection allows high throughput, chemically intelligent mining of large pharmaceutical discovery data sets. The two companies also announce the formation of a co-marketing partnership that will allow SciTegic to exclusively distribute the Decision Trees Collection in the cheminformatics and bioinformatics market places.

"We are delighted to partner with NovoDynamics and help introduce their novel technology into the life science market. NovoDynamics' sophisticated recursive partitioning methodology will provide our customers with a powerful new way to analyze their data and build virtual screens to speed their discovery efforts," said Dr. Mathew Hahn, CEO of SciTegic. "This is another example of a growing number of companies providing their application software through the Pipeline Pilot platform."

"Pipeline Pilot provides an excellent deployment vehicle for our algorithms," said Don Garaventi, CEO of NovoDynamics. "The ability to graphically prepare workflows that use recursive partitioning and to deploy the resulting virtual screening models through a simple Web interface will allow broad access to our methodologies throughout discovery organizations."

SciTegic Inc. is a privately held San Diego company that develops and markets informatics software to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. 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.

NovoDynamics Inc. creates and sells leading-edge pattern recognition and data mining software products and services focused on three markets: Document Exploitation; Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development; and Chemical Discovery and Development. Its customers are global, "Fortune 500" companies, who are typically technology leaders in their key markets, and important government agencies. NovoDynamics' unique data mining and pattern recognition competencies are based on its Advanced Discovery Informatics™ technology platform that can be applied to different markets where the common need is to uncover hidden trends, relationships, and information in large, complex databases and document collections. NovoDynamics is a privately owned company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information visit their web site www.novodynamics.com.

Contact:
Marty Kleine
Director of Marketing Communications
SciTegic, Inc
858.279.8800 ext. 214
mkleine@scitegic.com