Geospiza Proud to be a Part of Microsoft BioIT Alliance
SEATTLE, Wash. – October 19, 2006 – Geospiza, Inc., a leading developer of information technology solutions to automate genetic testing for both research and clinical application, today announced its active participation in the BioIT Alliance and its recent projects.
“Geospiza is proud to be working with Microsoft Corporation and its partners on the Biomarkers and Office Open XML Projects,” said Kevin M. Banks, Vice President of Business Development at Geospiza. “This is just the tip of the iceberg in what we hope will be a great forum for technology experts to work together to focus on enhancing the products being developed to improve the overall healthcare system.”
“We are quite pleased with the quality of contributions Geospiza has made to our alliance group,” said Don Rule, Platform Strategy Advisor for Bioinformatics at Microsoft Corporation. “We welcome their technology expertise and history in successfully bringing commercially-sound products to market in this space.”
The company’s flagship product, Geospiza Finch Suite, has established itself as the life science industry’s trusted software system for managing and analyzing vast amounts of research and clinical data being generated by today’s genetic-based assays. The platform provides the foundation for a complete set of commercial products and services solutions that help researchers and clinicians scale throughput, increase productivity and reduce costs.
About the BioIT Alliance
Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working together to improve biomedical information technology on the Microsoft platform. Founding members include Affymetrix, Inc., Accelrys Software Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC, Discovery Biosciences Corporation., Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc., VizX Labs LLC and other key companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries. Additional information about the BioIT Alliance can be found on the BioIT Alliance Web site at http://www.bioitalliance.org.
About Geospiza
Founded in 1997, Geospiza combines trusted life science and IT expertise to deliver its customers highly-scalable, fully-integrated, regulatory compliant informatics platforms for scaling their laboratory workflow, genetic data management and analytics workflows. The Company’s customers are primarily diagnostic laboratories, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, contract core labs, large research institutes and universities, involved in clinical DNA testing, manufacturing DNA based bio-therapeutics and delivering DNA data production services. More information is available at http://www.geospiza.com.
Geospiza and Finch are registered trademarks of Geospiza. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or certain other countries.
