InforSense and National Cancer Institute Enter Five-year Agreement
InforSense Ltd, the leader in integrative analytics platforms, today announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the US Federal Government’s principal agency for cancer research, has chosen InforSense technology for high-throughput genetic data analysis in cancer research. Investigators at the Core Genotyping Facility (CGF) of the NCI, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, will use InforSense’s workflow-based integrative analytics platform, InforSense KDE, for rapid application development for their own research and also plan to publish cutting-edge analysis methods via a web portal to the wider research community.
“Investigators require access to the latest analysis techniques to advance their research. Therefore, creating the informatics infrastructure to compose and deliver these methods is a high priority at the CGF,” said Dr. Meredith Yeager, Scientific Director, Core Genotyping Facility, NCI. “After an extensive review of the available commercial and open source options, we recognized that InforSense KDE is able to provide the functionality, flexibility, and scalability we need to support our research, and to develop caBIG™ (Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid ) compatible applications.”
“We are delighted that NCI has selected InforSense KDE for their genetics analysis platform,” commented Prof. Yike Guo, CEO and Founder, InforSense. “InforSense KDE is designed to enable scientists to easily build and publish their analytical applications by accessing and integrating diverse data, methods and services available within a large organization. The agreement with NCI underlines our commitment to establish InforSense KDE as the standard platform for application development within an informatics grid.”
About The National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients. Further information about the National Cancer Institute is available at http://www.nci.nih.gov/ .
About The Core Genotyping Facility
The goal of the CGF is to meet the genotyping and DNA sequencing needs of the NCI‘s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) and Center for Cancer Research (CCR). The facility performs high-throughput genotyping and sequencing to support genetic analysis for a broad range of projects for the intramural research program of the NCI. The CGF is assessing human genetic variation, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and other types of genetic variation (such as microsatellites and insertion/deletion mutations), in a large number of population based and family studies initiated by NCI investigators.
About InforSense
InforSense Limited, the leader in integrative analytics, enables organizations to orchestrate and optimize their business-critical decision-making processes. Leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, financial services companies, and research institutes are using the company’s flagship product, InforSense KDE, to enhance productivity across life science R&D, healthcare and business analytics. The company is privately held, with European headquarters in London, UK and North American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About InforSense KDE
Using InforSense KDE, enterprises rapidly integrate and deliver virtually any data source, analytic software tool, service or application within a single informatics framework. Users link these components via visual workflows to dynamically answer any question using their data, however complex or transient. Organizations can also mine their analytical processes to discover and deploy expertise and best practises. InforSense KDE provides an open, extensible service-oriented architecture, built using industry standards including J2EE, XML, and WSDL. The InforSense Oracle Edition is a state-of-the-art solution for enterprise wide integrative analytics using Oracle’s advanced information management and processing capabilities.
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