New 'enterprise solution' for gene expression data analysis is targeted at small to medium-sized research organisations and core facilities
Rosetta Biosoftware and Agilent Technologies have announced the introduction of the Rosetta Luminator system, a client-server bioinformatics system for storing and analysing microarray data. The Rosetta Luminator system will be distributed exclusively by Agilent, which already has an exclusive arrangement with Rosetta Biosoftware to distribute the Rosetta Resolver system targeted towards large pharmaceutical companies and major research facilities.
The Rosetta Luminator system was developed to meet the needs of small- to medium-sized pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations, as well as academic laboratories and core facilities involved in gene expression research.
The system is designed to grow with the needs of the gene expression researcher, and provides a seamless upgrade path to Rosetta Biosoftware's flagship enterprise gene expression data analysis product, the Rosetta Resolver system.
Version 1.0 of the Rosetta Luminator system includes a subset of the features from the Rosetta Resolver system, which is designed for use by research organisations that have the need to analyse and manage large volumes of expression data in a variety of formats.
The Rosetta Luminator system leverages Rosetta Biosoftware's advanced technology-specific error models to assign P-values and error bars to every single gene expression data point.
This facilitates the identification of genes with significant present/absent calls or up/down regulation at a desired confidence level.
The quality statistics calculated by these error models automatically take advantage of experimental replicates, and are used by every analysis feature of the system to produce optimal results.
Like the Rosetta Resolver system, the Rosetta Luminator system has the integrated capability of analysing ratio and intensity data in one system, negating the need for separate modules or products to analyse various data formats.
The system also provides a centralized Oracle database to locally warehouse all microarray data and relevant experiment annotations.
The Rosetta Luminator system's annotative Lims capabilities enable customers to import and store information related to their gene expression experiments.
