GenoLogics will collaborate to enhance the functionality and usability of the Institute for Systems Biology's open source tools and integrate them into its lab management and informatics platform
GenoLogics Life Sciences Software (GenoLogics) has established a strategic partnership with the Institute for Systems Biology to collaborate on increasing the widespread utility of ISB's open source software tools within the life sciences community.
ISB says it has played a pioneering role in developing new open source tools for data collection and analysis as well as new scientific instruments and approaches supporting genomics, proteomics, and high-speed cell sorting.
GenoLogics will collaborate to enhance the functionality and usability of ISB's open source tools and integrate these tools into its lab management and informatics platform, ProteusLims.
In addition, the GenoLogics value-added support network will facilitate installation and broaden the reach of the tools for a wider group of researchers.
Ruedi Aebersold, co-founder of the ISB and one of the pioneers in the field of proteomics, notes: "The partnership with GenoLogics is aligned with our mission as an integrating force in biology and medicine, and our goal of rapidly developing and disseminating new technologies and computational tools to individual scientists and labs all over the world.
"As a leader in providing lab information management systems for proteomics research, GenoLogics's ability to enhance and integrate our tools into their platform will only serve to accelerate the dissemination and help transform today's technologies.
"We plan to extend this relationship as ISB develops additional new bioinformatics tools and GenoLogics extends its lab management and informatics platform into systems biology".
Michael Ball, chief executive officer of GenoLogics, commented: "We are extremely pleased to partner with Ruedi Aebersold and ISB.
"The Institute is at the cutting edge of developing tools around data analysis for new types of biological data.
"By integrating these tools into our ProteusLims platform, it will expand the use of lab information management systems to enable researchers to put their information in context and facilitate advancement of scientific discovery in disease prediction and prevention.
"Our recent successes in providing proteomics researchers with an open and integrating lab management and informatics platform will be further increased by integrating and bundling the ISB tools with ProteusLims".
"We are responding to a strong need in proteomics data management and analysis, and the ISB tools will allow ProteusLims to provide open spectra visualisation, quantification, and statistical validation of protein and peptide search results, among other things," said James DeGreef, VP of product management at GenoLogics.
GenoLogics and ISB are both participating in the upcoming American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas on 5-9 June 2005.
The conference draws over 6000 attendees.
ISB will be presenting an 'Overview of the ISB Tools Pipeline for the Analysis of Proteomics Data', and GenoLogics will highlight the integration of ISB tools into ProteusLims, at a joint presentation in the GenoLogics suite on 8 June 2005.
