Apelon Provides Terminology Integration For Ardais Corporation; Leading Biotech Firm Selects Vocabulary Content and Tools For Resources Designed To Speed Drug Research and Development.Business Editors RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2001 Apelon, the world's largest supplier of medical terminology Medical terminology is a vocabulary for accurately describing the human body and associated components, conditions, processes and procedures in a science-based manner. This systematic approach to word building and term comprehension is based on the concept of: (1) Word roots, (2) software and services, will supply terminology development and integration tools to Ardais Corporation, the leading provider of clinical genomics technologies, products and services designed to accelerate drug discovery and development. Ardais will use Apelon's Terminology Development Environment (TDE TDE 1. tetrachlorodiphenylethane-a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide. 2. ethoglucid, an antineoplastic agent. ) tool to create a new ontology ontology: see metaphysics. ontology Theory of being as such. It was originally called “first philosophy” by Aristotle. In the 18th century Christian Wolff contrasted ontology, or general metaphysics, with special metaphysical theories of concepts unique to human clinical materials classification and management. Ardais will also utilize Apelon's Distributed Terminology System (DTS (1) (Digital Theatre Sound) A digital audio encoding system used in movie and home theaters. Popularized by the movie Jurassic Park, the six-channel (5. ) real time servers to link this data to Ardais' existing applications. Researchers will then be able to associate allele allele (əlēl`): see genetics. allele Any one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that may occur alternatively at a given site on a chromosome. expression in tissues and molecular level genomics data with clinical samples and clinical information about those samples, in order to identify and validate potential biological targets that may lead to new therapeutics to treat disease. The pharmaceutical and biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. industries invest over $45 billion each year in research and development. Despite this huge investment, the industry's success rate has been insufficient to address such major diseases as cancer, heart disease and arthritis among others. One reason for this low productivity has been the difficulty of identifying the correct "target" or gene that is important to the origins and progression of a disease and then designing a drug that safely and effectively addresses that target. "Apelon is very pleased that our terminology technology is being applied in such an important area," said Apelon's President Stephen Coady. "We are proud to help Ardais close the gap between gene discovery and medicine." Martin Ferguson Martin John Ferguson, AM (born 12 December 1953), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1996, representing the Division of Batman, Victoria. , Ardais Vice President - Bioinformatics noted: "In order to help biopharmaceutical companies to increase the productivity of their discovery programs, Ardais provides the tools that enable researchers to conduct clinically relevant, statistically based experiments for target identification and validation. Towards that end, we need to integrate bioinformatics with clinical informatics Clinical Informatics is a sub-field of medical informatics. It focuses on computer applications that address medical data (collection, analysis, representation). Clinical informatics is a combination of information science, computer science, and clinical science designed to assist on an unprecedented scale. Apelon's TDE gives us the best toolkit with which to create and manage the structured vocabularies used to annotate annotate - annotation our clinical database and prepare those data for genomics-based biomedical research Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research or applied research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. ." About Apelon Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology tools and services. Leading healthcare organizations use Apelon software to improve the quality, comparability and accessibility of clinical information. Apelon offers terminology development software, run time vocabulary servers, concept-based indexing and retrieval products, and corresponding consultant services. Corporate Web site: www.Apelon.com About Ardais Ardais Corporation, founded in 1999, is a privately-held clinical genomics company headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census. The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagement of the American Revolution. . Clinical genomics is a multi-disciplinary approach to correlate molecular changes, including differences in patterns of gene expression, with the characteristics of actual human disease, to accelerate the discovery and validation of targets for development of new diagnostics and therapeutics. Ardais' mission is to accelerate drug discovery by enabling a new generation of clinically relevant, statistically-based experimental capabilities on a previously unimaginable scale. Through collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies and medical institutions, Ardais applies its human disease-based technology platform, integrated expertise and tissue collection infrastructure to advance its partners' clinical discovery programs. The Ardais BIGR(TM) Library and suite of proprietary bioinformatics tools provide academic and industrial researchers with access to tens of thousands of research-quality clinical materials and associated information in unique formats for research. Additional information is available at www.Ardais.com |
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