Informatics has announced a strategic partnership with Sage-N Research to discover potential biomarkers and a microbial detection system
The partnership includes the integration of Sage-N's SORCERER Enterprise with the IO Informatics' Sentient software suite.
The combination of these technologies creates a Semantic application framework that the companies hope can be used to develop an application that leverages mass-spectrometry based Proteomics with content enrichment, interoperability and flexibility.
"One application of this novel approach is to identify peptides from different microorganism with common mechanism of actions, and to categorise them as potential biomarkers, and it also has the capability to detect microbial threats prior to onset of disease symptoms," said Ali Pervez, Vice President of Marketing at Sage-N Research.
This new alliance was announced at the Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) 8th Annual Conference: The Future of Proteomics in San Francisco.
"Future applications of this technology will enable automated screening for biological threats, to characterize origin and type of disease and to develop preventive measures (drugs or vaccines) effective for several classes of microorganism," said Robert Stanley, President of IO Informatics.
