Pipeline Pilot

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Accelrys
Initial release	1999 (1999)
Stable release	18.1 / May 2018 (2018-05)
Written in	Visual and dataflow programming language
License	Proprietary
Website	accelrys.com/products/collaborative-science/biovia-pipeline-pilot/

Pipeline Pilot is a desktop software program sold by

Pipeline Pilot was created by SciTegic. BIOVIA subsequently acquired SciTegic and Pipeline Pilot in 2004. BIOVIA was itself purchased by Dassault Systèmes in 2014. The product expanded from an initial focus on chemistry to include general extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities. Beyond the base product, Dassault has added analytical and data processing collections for report generation, data visualization, and a number of scientific and engineering sectors. Currently, the product is used for ETL, analytics, and machine learning in the chemical, energy, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, automotive, and electronics manufacturing industries.

Overview

Pipeline Pilot is part of a class of software products that provide user interfaces for manipulating and analyzing data. The Vendor says that Pipeline Pilot and similar products allow users with limited or no coding abilities to transform and manipulate datasets. The dataset manipulation is usually a precursor to conducting analysis of the data. Like other graphical ETL products, it enables users to pull from different data sources, such as CSV files, text files, and databases.

Components, pipelines, protocols, and data records

The graphical user interface, called the Pipeline Pilot Professional Client, allows users to drag and drop discrete data processing units called "components". Components can load, filter, join, or manipulate data. Components can also perform much more advanced data manipulations, such as building regression models, training neural networks, or processing datasets into PDF reports.

Pipeline Pilot implements a Components paradigm. Components are represented as nodes in a workflow. In a mathematical sense, components are modeled as nodes in a directed graph: "pipes" (graph edges) connect components and move data along from node to node where operations are performed on the data. To help in industry-specific applications, such as Next Generation Sequencing (see High-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods), BIOVIA has developed components that greatly reduce the amount of time users need to do common industry-specific tasks.

Users can choose from components that come pre-installed or create their own components in workflows called "protocols". Protocols are sets of linked components. Protocols can be saved, reused, and shared. Users can mix and match components that are provided with the software from BIOVIA with their own custom components. Connections between two components are called "pipes", and are visualized in the software as two components connected by a pipe. End users design their workflows/protocols, and then execute them by running the protocol. Data flows from left to right along the pipes.

Modern data analysis and processing can involve a very large number of manipulations and transformations. Pipeline Pilot has the ability to visually condense a lengthy series of data manipulations that involve many components. A workflow of any length can be visually condensed into a component that is used in a high-level workflow. This means that a protocol can be saved and used as a component in another protocol. In the terminology used in Pipeline Pilot, protocols that are used as components in other protocols are called "subprotocols". This allows users to add layers of complexity to their data processing and manipulation workflows, and then hide that complexity so they can design the workflow at a higher level of abstraction.

Component collections

Pipeline Pilot features a number of add-ons called "collections". Collections are groups of specialized functions like processing genetic information or analyzing polymers offered to end users for an additional licensing fee. Currently, there are a number of these collections.^[8]

Given the number of different add-ons now offered by BIOVIA, Pipeline Pilot's use cases are very broad and difficult to summarize succinctly. The product has been used in:

• Predictive maintenance
• Image analysis, for example, the determination of the inhibitory action of a substance on biological processes (
  plate
  layout and chemistry information about the tested compounds (Imaging, Chemistry, Plate Data Analytics)
• A recommender system for scientific literature based on a Bayesian model built using fingerprint and user's reading list or papers ranking
• Access to experiment methods and results from
  electronic laboratory notebook or laboratory information management system, with resulting reports for resource capacity planning

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