Waters Corporation has announced that it has joined the BioIT Alliance.
The BioIT Alliance is an initiative spearheaded by Microsoft Corporation and involves more than 80 pharmaceutical, biotech, laboratory instrument and software companies working together to realise the potential of personalised medicine.
Waters Informatics Business will work with industry leaders to develop standardised conventions for sharing scientific data based on Microsoft technology.
The BioIT Alliance explores new ways to share complex scientific data and speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences, abbreviating the time between discovery of new biological data and the application of that knowledge to human health.
It brings together science and technology leaders to consider ways to address the challenges of integration, collaboration and knowledge management that cannot be solved by any single company.
Members use Microsoft technologies to reduce costs and streamline research by advocating for and creating IT solutions intended to standardise practices for data capture, archiving, and dissemination.
Rudy Potenzone, worldwide industry technology strategist for pharmaceuticals at Microsoft and BioIT Alliance coordinator, said: 'We rely on member companies to advance the state-of-the-art in BioIT by coordinating proof-of-concept applications that illustrate the use of Microsoft IT technology in solving critical problems for life sciences companies.'
