CURRENT PARTNERS

Crosslinks BV

Crosslinks ambition is to deliver services, solutions and technology in the field of new advanced visual informatics software designed to deal with large data sets (i.e. from genomics and proteomics experiments) for life sciences companies, biomedical research and other markets.

The combination of cutting edge ICT technology and in-depth knowledge of life sciences and medical research makes CrossLinks an outstanding partner in the field of molecular imaging and molecular diagnostics.

Therefore Crosslinks is giving a true meaning to information based individualized medicine.

Crosslinks, Life Sciences redefined

Further information is available at www.crosslinks-it.com

Tessela

For decades, Tessella has been successfully delivering IT and consulting services to world leaders in R&D, science and engineering. Through the application of scientific methods and rigorous quality procedures, we enable clients in life sciences, energy, the public sector, and consumer industries to achieve a wide range of objectives, including, forecasting floods, developing fusion power, enhancing military sensor capability, improving drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of oil and gas. With offices in Europe and North America, global companies rely on Tessella for business critical assignments.

Further information is available at www.tessella.com

InforA

InforA is a professional data analytics consulting company that serves the financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing industries as well as the public sector in the European and Turkish markets. Its highly-educated team uses data mining techniques to transform gathered data into meaningful information that improves organizationʼs decision making process in terms of time and accuracy. InforA provides data analysis solutions to the leading banks, credit institutions and consulting companies of Turkey for credit scoring, risk management and customer understanding. For more information about InforA, visit www.infora.com.tr

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Apple

The Mac platform is the ideal platform for scientific research. Powerful, innovative technology solutions supported by an industrial-strength UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X, bring versatility, flexibility, and scalability to the research community - enabling faster time to results. From convenient portables, to affordable desktop systems, to workstation-class computers, to high-performance server and storage units, to stunning LCD flat-panel monitors, Apple puts world-class technology and legendary ease-of-use in the hands of researchers, giving them the freedom to focus on their research.

For more information about Apple, visit www.apple.com

InforSense provides a powerful platform that runs on Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger".

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The BioTeam

The BioTeam is a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry. The BioTeam provides complete beginning-to-end life science informatics and Bio-IT solutions and has proven success at bridging the Science-IT gap. iNquiry is BioTeam's ready-to-use cluster and web portal optimized for use in life science informatics. iNquiry comes preconfigured with more than 150 open source bioinformatic and scientific applications and can easily be extended to support additional commercial, open-source or internally developed applications. iNquiry's web service (SOAP) interface enables a seamless connection between InforSense, scientific applications and your computing resources. Together we make high-performance workflows a reality.

For more information: visit www.bioteam.net,
or call +1-978-304-1222.

InforSense BioSense Grid provides interactive access to the BioTeam's iNquiry open source bioinformatics and scientific applications using InforSense's visual workflow interface. As a result life sciences researchers benefit from easy integration of data and applications via an intuitive interface coupled with high-performance distributed computation for large-scale bioinformatics studies.

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BioWisdom

BioWisdom delivers intelligence for the Healthcare Industry and helps clients to navigate the complex scientific and commercial issues involved in developing successful healthcare products. The company provides a powerful suite of software tools for the acquisition, integration, visualization and high value analysis of healthcare intelligence. The BioWisdom team combines extensive experience of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with proven expertise in life science software development.

For more information visit www.biowisdom.com

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Chemical Computing Group (CCG)

CCG are the producers of the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE), providing a diverse range of software applications for drug discovery and protein modelling, including sequence alignment and homology modelling, binding site investigation, small molecule modelling, pharmacophore derivation and searching, cheminformatics, QSAR, library design and focusing. MOE is supported on all common operating systems. Source code for all MOE scientific applications is provided in its own computing language, Scientific Vector Language (SVL); this enables complete customization of provided applications and fast prototyping and deployment of new ideas, enables CCG's customer support organization to be the most nimble and responsive in the industry, and enables easy integration of MOE applications into in-house and other vendor frameworks.

For more information visit www.chemcomp.com

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ChemAxon

ChemAxon is a leader in providing Java based chemical software development platforms for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. With core capabilities including structure visualization and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and core portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication.

For more information please visit www.chemaxon.com.

Taking advantage of InforSense's Open Architecture, users can access, define and integrate Chemistry data sources and ChemAxon Java tools for rapid application development.

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ChemNavigator

ChemNavigator develops and markets scientific software and database technology. Its products and services are employed by over 40 pharmaceutical, biotech research and crop protection companies to cost effectively discover new biologically active compounds. ChemNavigator helps clients to identify and procure novel chemical substances used in the discovery process at a fraction of the cost of traditional research and provides a flexible and open business model through products, services and collaborative business arrangements.

For more information visit www.chemnavigator.com.

ChemNavigator and InforSense are working together to provide customers with a solution that uses analytic workflows to select from tens of millions of novel chemical substances. The aim of combining the technologies is to save time and costs of chemistry procurement and library management in life science research.

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Data Miners

Data Miners Inc. is a consultancy that brings together several of the world's foremost experts in applying advanced data mining techniques to generate true business intelligence. Since their founding in 1997, Data Miners have helped leading companies around the world improve customer retention, increase customer value, forecast subscriber levels, identify customer segments, increase response rates to direct marketing, and turn customer data into a truly valuable resource.

For more information please visit www.data-miners.com.

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Daylight

Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc. - Daylight provides enterprise-level cheminformatics technologies to life science companies. Superior chemistry, high performance, and open architecture have earned Daylight a reputation for delivering the state-of-the-art in chemical information processing since 1987. With DayCart® and the Daylight Toolkit, users are empowered to easily assemble enterprise information systems with a broad range of cheminformatics capabilities.

Mutual InforSense and Daylight customers benefit from the ability to rapidly compose and deliver applications that integrate diverse computational and data services. Potential cheminformatics application areas span the entire lead identification and optimization process.

For more information visit www.daylight.com.

Rather than pipelining data, InforSense caches the full database at each stage in a workflow, providing the capability to explore specific sets of data throughout the process. Running on top of Daylight's Oracle chemistry cartridge - DayCart®- this integration combines the scalability, performance and superior chemistry of Daylight with the flexible and open workflow environment offered by InforSense.

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DeltaSoft, Inc.

DeltaSoft specializes in consulting and product development for the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotech industries. Based on extensive knowledge of informatics trends as well as a thorough understanding of scientists' needs, DeltaSoft has developed ChemCart, a user-configurable forms interface to research databases. From a web browser, scientists can search, view, share, and update both structural and non-structural data stored in Oracle databases that have been extended with chemical data cartridges. ChemCart has been used in registration, inventory, electronic lab notebook, and biology/chemistry integration applications.

For more information please visit www.deltasoftinc.com.

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Elsevier MDL

Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow solutions that accelerate successful life sciences R&D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making.

Mutual InforSense and Elsevier MDL customers benefit from integrating MDL chemistry applications (the MDL® Isentris product family, including MDL® Direct data cartridges and MDL® Draw, and MDL® ISIS/Draw) with both InforSense and its 'in Oracle' enterprise analytics system, InforSense Oracle Edition.

For more information please visit: www.mdl.com.

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GeneGo

GeneGo is a leading provider of data analysis solutions in systems biology and pathway analysis.

GeneGo's tools and databases help researchers to capture and define the underlying biology behind different types of high-throughput experimental data and to understand the effects of small molecule drug compounds in human tissues. GeneGo provides solutions for a full range of applications in life science research and drug development, from pre-clinical discovery and NCE applications to clinical trials, covering all aspects of biology and chemistry.

For more information visit www.genego.com.

The integration of GeneGo's unique reference system for curated pathway analysis and InforSense's integrated, interactive workflow-based data mining technology allows researchers to query their data and share their results across the research and development value chain. In addition to the integration of InforSense and MetaCore, which is already available, the companies are in the process of integrating InforSense with both MetaBase and MetaDrug.

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GenomeQuest, Inc.

GenomeQuest, Inc. is a leading enterprise genomic information company providing search, content, and analysis functions to manage and mine the world's sequence data. The company's flagship product, GenomeQuestT, is a web-based sequence information platform that enables scientists and IP professionals to explore biological sequence information while simultaneously investigating the Intellectual Property landscape. Backed by a continually-updated collection of databases, GenomeQuest delivers confident sequence search to it's over 100 customers of leading life science companies and IP law firms, worldwide.

GenomeQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. For more information, call (508) 616-0100, or visit www.genomequest.com.

The integration of GenomeQuest's unique information platform for analyzing sequence-based biological and patent content from dozens of private and public sources worldwide and InforSense's integrated, interactive workflow-based analytics technology allows attorneys, researchers, and business managers to identify promising research opportunities quickly and accurately.

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Ingenuity Systems®

Ingenuity Systems® enables biologists and bioinformaticians to identify the biological mechanisms, pathways and functions foundational to human health and disease. Products include pathway analysis software and knowledge bases for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis software is deployed at the majority of pharmaceutical companies and hundreds of biotechnology companies and academic institutions globally. It supports analysis of all high throughput analysis platforms and is used in virtually all areas of drug discovery and development from target identification and validation to biomarkers, predictive toxicology, and pharmacogenomics.

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis is available as a web-delivered, hosted, or deployed solution. Fully functional complimentary trials are available at www.ingenuity.com/trial.

For more information please visit www.ingenuity.com.

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LabVantage

LabVantage Solutions, Inc., an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading laboratories, serves discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw material testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries. LabVantage's SAPPHIRE, a zero-footprint laboratory information management suite, is tailored to manage an organization's critical laboratory information across its worldwide operations to optimize productivity and more effectively share knowledge. LabVantage is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ, U.S.A.

For more information about LabVantage, visit www.labvantage.com

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Linguamatics

Linguamatics helps organizations to maximize the value of business critical information resources and systems through effective deployment of innovative natural language processing (NLP) technology. Our versatile interactive information extraction system, I2E, helps organizations to do much more than simply cope with vast quantities of information. Its unique combination of search and text mining lets our customers turn this information into a competitive advantage. From life sciences and healthcare, to business intelligence; from media analysis to security, our users mine large collections of documents, extracting relevant facts and relationships from content such as scientific papers, news feeds, patent documents, or business reports. Founded in 2001, and based in Cambridge, UK, our goal is to deploy intuitive solutions that are second to none in the power of their underlying computational linguistics and in their ease of use and interactivity.

Additional information can be found at: www.linguamatics.com.

Integration of Linguamatics I2E and InforSense's text analytics platform, InforSense TextSense, provides a single, flexible and accessible environment for constructing tailored, high performance text analytics applications.

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Oracle

Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for grid computing, the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. It cuts costs of management while providing the highest possible quality of service. Oracle Data Mining (ODM), an option to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, enables companies to extract information efficiently from the very largest databases and build integrated business intelligence applications. Data analysts can find patterns and insights hidden in their data. Application developers can quickly automate the extraction and distribution of new business intelligence - predictions, patterns and discoveries - throughout the organization.

For more information about Oracle, visit www.oracle.com

InforSense has worked in partnership with Oracle to integrate the analytic and business intelligence features of the two main releases of Oracle Database 10g. By using the InforSense IOE (In-Oracle Edition) platform for tailored application building and deployment, customers can directly access a range of Oracle capabilities without custom programming, to deliver improved business decision-making and enhanced productivity.

Through the tight coupling of InforSense and Oracle technologies, InforSense offers seamless integration across Oracle data sources, analytical tools, applications and services.

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Prometheus Asia

Prometheus Asia is a consultancy formed by experts in applying advanced data mining techniques to generate true business insight for our clients.  We focus on helping leading companies in Asia improve customer insight, customer retention, increase customer value, identify customer segments, increase response rates to direct marketing, optimize costs and turn our clients' operational data into a truly valuable asset.

Our team provides analytics and data mining consulting engagements for some of the most successful companies in telecommunications, banking, high tech manufacturing, retail and other industries in Asia. We deliver consulting reports to fully deployable models, depending on our clients' needs and the nature of their business.

For more information, visit www.prometheus-asia.com.

Using InforSense, Prometheus is currently providing business analytic solutions and consulting services to customers in Singapore and other ASEAN countries. The analytic solutions are applied to various industries including retail, manufacturing, banking, telecom, and government.  

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Strategic Medicine

Strategic Medicine, Inc focuses on providing high quality human tissue and comprehensive, longitudinal patient data & biomedical informatics to support basic/clinical research, & pharmaceutical/healthcare marketplaces. Based in Windber, Pa, & aligned with the Windber Research Institute, it has a Netherlands-based affiliate that works overseas.

For more information visit: www.strategicmedicine.com/

Tripos

Tripos solutions enable scientists to make knowledge-driven research decisions, avoiding costly synthesis and testing of chemical compounds unlikely to be effective. Tripos Discovery Informatics technologies are used by scientists at major research facilities around the world to manage, analyze, and share biological and chemical information. SYBYL®, the premier computational informatics offering, leads the way in innovation, including core science and workflow-centric applications addressing critical tasks such as ligand docking, virtual screening, de novo design, and lead optimization.

Additional information can be found at: www.tripos.com.

InforSense and Tripos have integrated Tripos' AUSPYX and SYBYL technologies with both InforSense and its 'in Oracle' enterprise analytics system, InforSense IOE.

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