LabKey Software Joins BioIT Alliance
SEATTLE, Washington – September 18, 2008 – LabKey Software, a leading provider of open source software that enables teams of researchers to pursue large-scale, collaborative projects, announced it has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance. The BioIT Alliance is an association of life science organizations and informatics companies whose focus is to enhance collaboration and accelerate the pace of drug and vaccine discovery and development.
“We see two strong trends in biomedical research, data dependence and collaboration,” said Peter Hussey, a founding partner at LabKey Software. “The diversity of diagnostic technologies and laboratory instruments presents researchers with the daunting task of managing and integrating the data.” Hussey adds, “We look forward to working with other BioIT Alliance members who share our belief that well-designed and well-executed information systems can make a huge difference in the success of highly collaborative research projects.”
“We are very pleased to welcome LabKey Software to the BioIT Alliance,” said Rudy Potenzone, Worldwide Industry Technology Strategist for Pharmaceuticals at Microsoft and BioIT Alliance Coordinator. “Their commitment to providing solutions that enable teams of researchers to pursue large-scale scientific discovery projects – coupled with their world-class experience in deploying, enhancing and supporting complex IT systems for consortia-based research – complements the capabilities of other Alliance members.”
The BioIT Alliance is designed to enable collaboration among organizations in the life sciences field in order to shorten the time between discovery of new biological data and the application of that knowledge to human health through the development of better drugs and vaccines. With funding agencies demanding broader collaboration and data sharing, LabKey is well-positioned to deliver solutions to meet these challenges through web applications backed by robust relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server.
For information on LabKey Software solutions, visit www.labkey.com.
About the BioIT Alliance
Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working to integrate science and technology in order to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and realize the potential of personalized medicine. Founding members include Accelrys Software Inc., Affymetrix, Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC, Discovery Biosciences Corporation, Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Illumina Inc., InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc., The Scripps Research Institute, 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 LabKey Server
LabKey Server is an open source, web-based system that enables teams of researchers to purse large-scale, collaborative projects in their quest to produce definitive answers to complex scientific questions. In full production use today at leading biomedical research organizations, LabKey Server helps networks of independent teams come together to accelerate their joint research efforts by providing the software infrastructure needed to integrate, manage, analyze, validate and securely share both experimental data and results from clinical studies. LabKey Server is a standards-based, extensible and modular platform that handles assay-based data like those generated by ELISpot, ELISA, Luminex and neutralizing antibody experiments, as well as high-throughput data produced by mass spectrometry, flow cytometry and high-throughput sequencing instruments. The current production release of LabKey Server is version 8.2. This version is available for download at www.labkey.org.
LabKey Software – Partners in Science
LabKey Software, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is a leading provider of open source scientific data management systems and consulting services for large-scale, collaborative projects. Its clients include some of the world’s top biomedical research organizations, including the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) and the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP). LabKey Software has developed and commercialized LabKey Server, the preeminent open source software platform for enabling teams of researchers to purse large-scale, collaborative projects. LabKey Software provides enterprise-level support, training and consulting services to adopters of the LabKey Server platform and continues to take a leadership role in enhancing and guiding the evolution of the system. For complete details about LabKey Software, visit www.labkey.com.
