Bio-Rad Launches Internet-Based Platform for Searching of Over 800,000 Spectra
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. announced today the introduction of a new Internet-based client-sever platform designed for high-speed searching of more than 800,000 spectra. With this new platform, users now have the option to access award-winning KnowItAll® spectral databases via the internet rather than installing the data on their own computers. This new on-line capability will enable scientists to free up local hard drive space and conduct structure, substructure, chemical property, spectral, and peak databases searches at dramatically higher speeds than previously possible.
“We all know that searching vast amounts of data can be a time-consuming process,” said Ty Abshear, Bio-Rad Software and Database Development Manager. “But now, with Bio-Rad’s new server, optimized for extraordinary performance over LAN, WAN and the Internet, searches that previously took minutes can now be completed in less than five seconds.”
Internet access to KnowItAll databases will also decrease IT maintenance and updating burdens. Installation procedures using an Internet-based platform for databases only require installation of KnowItAll client software.
Abshear continued, “From an IT perspective, this client-Internet server solution makes perfect sense. Bio-Rad maintains the servers that house the databases, cutting the internal costs of hosting the data in-house from a central server location. Companies can have access to the fastest searches possible and the convenience of letting Bio-Rad maintain the data. It’s a win-win situation. Additionally, when updates take place, IT no longer needs to install the updated databases on each system. Updates are accessible as soon as they are made available on-line.”
Internet-based searching saves both the end user and the IT department time, local server installation costs and maintenance, and also enables Bio-Rad to offer more cost-effective site licensing options.
Bio-Rad’s Informatics Division (www.informatics.bio-rad.com) specializes in state-of-the-art software and database solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. Bio-Rad is the leading publisher of fully verified spectral databases, cheminformatics, spectroscopy software and decision support systems for drug discovery. The company’s award-winning KnowItAll Informatics System offers a fully integrated environment with flexible, expandable software and database solutions for spectroscopy (MS, NMR, IR, Raman, spectral data management), cheminformatics, and ADME/Tox prediction.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (www.bio-rad.com) is a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research, clinical diagnostics and informatics products. It is based in Hercules, California, and serves more than 70,000 research and industry customers worldwide through a network of more than 30 wholly owned subsidiary offices.
Various statements made within this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “safe harbor” provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements contained herein involve risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from the Company’s expectations.
For more information, contact:
Name: Deborah Kernan
Phone: +1 215 349 7366
E-mail: deborah_kernan@bio-rad.com
For additional information on Bio-Rad Laboratories, Informatics Division, visit www.informatics.bio-rad.com or call 1-888-5-BIO-RAD in the U.S. or in Europe, call +44 (0) 20 8328 2555 or free phone 00800-78945000.
