FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 28, 2003

SciTegic® Inc. licenses Pipeline Pilot™ to Chiron.

For Immediate Release.

SAN DIEGO, CA, July 28, 2003 – SciTegic®, Inc. today announced that Chiron Corporation has purchased a multi-user license to Pipeline Pilot(TM). This software product has been deployed at Chiron to help with compound library acquisition and activity modeling for optimizing their high-throughput screening efforts.

Chiron Corporation is a global pharmaceutical company focused on cancer and infectious disease, and their research in small molecules will benefit from the advanced cheminformatics capabilities of Pipeline Pilot. Chiron has purchased the Pipeline Pilot technology for multiple internal users, as well as a license for the SciTegic web interface that allows a greater number of additional users to access and execute data processing protocols remotely using a web browser.

"We are extremely pleased Chiron has selected Pipeline Pilot," said Dr. Mathew Hahn, CEO of SciTegic. "This system provides a compelling solution for companies seeking to improve the efficiency of their drug discovery efforts."

Pipeline Pilot is the leading technology for integration and automation of drug discovery informatics data processing. It provides an extremely flexible and easy to use environment for linking together various data sources and software tools into computational protocols. Validated analysis protocols can be easily deployed as standards to a wide audience of users through a web browser, increasing the value of computational methods in discovery research.

About SciTegic

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.

SciTegic is a registered trademark and Pipeline Pilot is a trademark in the United States of SciTegic, Inc. All other company and/or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved.

CONTACTS:

SciTegic™, Inc. Marty Kleine, Director Marketing Communications tel. (858) 279-8800 ext. 14 email: mkleine@scitegic.com