IDBS has announced a collaboration with Perkin Elmer at the 6th Annual High Content Analysis Conference in San Francisco.
The collaboration will be focused on improving data analysis and interpretation of High Content Screening (HCS), an enabling technology in the search for key cellular markers associated with human health and disease.
The collaboration features the integration of Perkin Elmer's Columbus image data management system for HCS with IDBS's Activitybase XE screening data management software.
The collaboration will provide researchers with a unified interface to access both Columbus's image data storage capabilities and Activitybase XE's screening data analysis and interpretation features.
'The future of High Content Screening lies in an increased synergy between technologies that integrate vast image content with large compound sets, to generate actionable research data,' said Richard M Eglen, PhD, president, Bio-discovery, Perkin Elmer.
Perkin Elmer's Columbus software is used for high volume image storage and management.
Designed as a partner product for the Opera system, Perkin Elmer's confocal microplate imaging reader, the software offers compatibility with a wide range of image file formats.
The Columbus software can be used to archive and manage images from confocal and standard research microscopes, and acts as a convenient central repository for all image data.
IDBS's Activitybase XE delivers high performance data analysis, flexible data visualisation/interpretation and storage in one working environment.
The features in Activitybase XE enable users to analyse rich, multivariant data, perform curve fitting and complex statistics within each well of an MTS, HTS or uHTS experiment.
The software enables domain-aware interpretation through visualisation, featuring a wide selection of data views not available in generic spreadsheet packages or non-specialist solutions.
