Global deal combines laboratory workflow system with data integration platform to acquire, manage and integrate laboratory data with any other data source
Amersham Biosciences and GeneticXchange have collaborated to provide what they say is the most powerful laboratory data acquisition, management and integration solution available on the market today.
The two companies have worked together to seamlessly combine Amersham Biosciences's Scierra laboratory workflow system (LWS) and Discoveryhub data integration platform from GeneticXchange to provide scientists with increased transparency and accessibility to any laboratory-generated data. Available from Q3 2003, the powerful combination of Scierra LWS and Discoveryhub will enable the rapid integration of laboratory-generated data with legacy, public, third party and clinical data on one platform that should help lead to tangible time and cost savings for drug discovery.
Under a distribution agreement signed this week, Amersham Biosciences will sell the integrated solution globally.
By facilitating the flow of data that is generated from instruments and then making it available for further analysis, this collaboration underpins Amersham's Data Fluency informatics initiative - the drive for seamless integration of traditionally distinct disciplines of biology, technologies and scientific teams through data. "The combination of Scierra LWS and Discoveryhub offers a unique and powerful solution for data acquisition, data management and data integration for scientists," says Jerry Walker, VP Informatics at Amersham Biosciences.
"Customers already benefit from the Scierra LWS technology that facilitates the generation, acquisition and management of data.
The addition of Discoveryhub will enable rapid integration of lab generated data with legacy, public, third party and clinical data, leading to both time and cost savings in the drug discovery process." " Amersham Biosciences's vision of seamless data integration and management absolutely aligns with the GeneticXchange plan to build a world-class data integration platform that will allow any life science organisation to connect scientists to the data they need.
This open platform combining Scierra LWS and Discoveryhub underpins a major new data integration system for the industry," said Brian Donnelly, CEO and chairman of GeneticXchange.
