Inforsense Orchestrates Bioinformatics Services On Apple Workgroup Cluster
InforSense Ltd, the leader in integrative analytics, today announced the launch of its integrative analytics platform InforSense KDE on Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger”, and of InforSense BioSense Grid, the first service-based high-performance environment for creating and publishing bioinformatics applications, on the Apple Workgroup cluster. InforSense BioSense Grid integrates iNquiry, the cluster and web portal for bioinformatics from The BioTeam, with the visual workflow, analytics and web services based architecture of InforSense KDE.
“BioSense Grid offers a unique environment for large scale bioinformatics,” said Prof. Yike Guo, CEO and Founder of InforSense. “With the popularity of the Apple Mac platform among life sciences researchers, the high performance Tiger and Xserve G5 cluster was the obvious choice for our first BioSense Grid demonstration.”
“Science and biotech researchers are increasingly choosing the power, stability and ease-of-use of Mac OS X and Xserve G5,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We’re excited that InforSense has taken advantage of Apple innovation to give researchers rapid and reliable access to important data, tools and computational power.”
About InforSense
InforSense Limited, a privately held corporation, enables organizations, using a workflow paradigm, to optimize their important information-driven decision making processes so that information, expertise and derived knowledge can be delivered effectively and quickly to decision-makers throughout the organization. This approach maximizes the return on existing Information Technology (IT) investments and helps organizations meet their evolving business needs. InforSense customers include leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, financial services companies, and leading research institutes.
About InforSense BioSense Grid
InforSense BioSense Grid provides interactive access to the BioTeam’s iNquiry open source bioinformatics and scientific applications using InforSense KDE’s visual workflow interface. As a result life sciences researchers benefit from easy integration of data and applications via an intuitive interface coupled with high-performance distributed computation for large-scale bioinformatics studies.
About InforSense KDE
InforSense KDE, the company’s flagship product, consists of a visual workflow environment for analytics integrating data sources, software applications and web services across research and business informatics; a workflow warehouse for capturing, managing and utilizing process knowledge and Intellectual Property (IP); and a powerful deployment engine to enable workflows to be rapidly turned into tailored, reusable applications available through web services, portlets or other visual desktop applications. The InforSense Oracle Edition provides a state of the art solution for enterprise wide integrative analytics using Oracle’s advanced information management and processing capabilities.
For further information on InforSense products and solutions, visit www.inforsense.com .
About The BioTeam
The BioTeam is a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life science industry. The BioTeam provides complete beginning-to-end life science informatics and Bio-IT solutions and has proven success at bridging the Science-IT gap. iNquiry is BioTeam’s ready-to-use cluster and web portal optimized for use in life science informatics. iNquiry comes preconfigured with a plethora of open source bioinformatic and scientific applications and can easily be extended to support additional commercial, open-source or internally developed applications. The end result is a powerful and scalable in-house informatics resource that installs rapidly and is ready to use — no expensive professional services fees or long weeks of setup, configuration and tuning. For more information: visit http://www.bioteam.net or call +1-978-304-1222
