Best of Show Awards Winners Named at Life Sciences Conference + Expo; Products From Ariadne Genomics, Nervana, Phase Forward, and Revivio Recognized for Their Technical Innovation Driving Biomedical Research, Drug Discovery.BOSTON -- CHI's Bio-IT World magazine today announced that products from four bio-IT companies were named Best of Show Awards winners at a ceremony held here last night at the Sheraton Hotel Boston during the Life Sciences Conference + Expo: The winning products include MedScan from Ariadne Genomics, Inc., Discovery Solution 3.0 from Nervana, Inc., Clinical Trials Signal Detection System from Phase Forward, Inc., and Continuous Protection System 1200 from Revivio, Inc. Judged by a team of Bio-IT World magazine editors and highly regarded industry experts, Best of Show Awards recognize new products which demonstrate exceptional technology innovations across the life sciences research, discovery and clinical trials process. One company was selected within four technology categories. The following winners were selected among 14 finalists, based on the products' technical merit, functionality and innovation, and in-person presentations to the judges at the show. --Clinical Trials & Research Clinical Trials Signal Detection system from Phase Forward, Inc. --Information Technology Infrastructure Continuous Protection System 1200 from Revivio, Inc. --Knowledge Management & Collaboration Tools MedScan from Ariadne Genomics, Inc. --Informatics Tools & Data Discovery Solution 3.0 from Nervana, Inc. Best of Show Award Winners CTSD CTSD Crew and Thermal Systems Division CTSD Certified Trading System Developer CTSD Computer Test Sequences Document (NASA) CTSD Coordinate Transformation System (NASA) CTSD Combat Training Support Directorate (TM), Phase Forwards' Clinical Trials Signal Detection system, combines tools for early detection and characterization of potential safety problems with a standards based repository for clinical trials data. While clinical trials data has in the past posed challenges to drug safety scientists due to issues such as small sample sizes and limited population diversity, recent market withdrawals of approved drugs due to safety issues have drawn the attention of pharmaceutical companies and regulators to the need for more careful evaluation of a drug's safety profile prior to marketing approval. CTSD offers features to support internal signal detection, evaluation, and management during premarketing stages of drug development. Revivio's Continuous Protection System model CPS (1) (Characters Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a serial printer or the speed of a data transfer between hardware devices or over a communications channel. CPS is equivalent to bytes per second. 1200 is a groundbreaking continuous data protection solution that allows companies to eliminate their backup windows, restore data instantly, exactly as it existed at any point or event in time, and recover business applications in just minutes. A fully fault-tolerant solution that supports the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. required of mission-critical applications, the CPS 1200 seamlessly and nondisruptively fits into any enterprise storage environment. Revivio's patent-pending technology allows administrators to instantly access all volumes used by an application - the entire dataset - as they existed at any previous point in time, a week, a day or even one second ago. Ariadne's advanced information extraction In natural language processing, information extraction (IE) is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information, i.e. categorized and contextually and semantically well-defined data from a certain domain, from unstructured technology - MedScan - can initiate and facilitate the growth of biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. semantic web A collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data on the Web. The Semantic Web uses XML tags that conform to Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language formats (see RDF and OWL). content. MedScan extracts structured information from plain text by identifying individual biomedical named entities (proteins, cellular processes, small molecules, diseases, etc), and detecting relationships between them using domain-specific Natural Language Processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as (NLP (Natural Language Processing) The capability of understanding human language. If the language is spoken, voice recognition plays an important role in converting the sounds to individual words. Then, natural language processing figures out what the words mean. ) algorithms. Wherever possible, named entities identified by MedScan are mapped to established nomenclature nomenclature /no·men·cla·ture/ (no´men-kla?cher) a classified system of names, as of anatomical structures, organisms, etc. binomial nomenclature systems that can be linked to other information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. . MedScan is capable of converting virtually any biomedical text (documents, web pages, Pubmed abstracts) into categorized cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat entity relationships, which are then stored as a semantic graph in RDF (Resource Description Framework) A recommendation from the W3C for creating meta-data structures that define data on the Web. RDF is designed to provide a method for classification of data on Web sites in order to improve searching and navigation (see Semantic Web). format. Thus, MedScan serves as a "Semantic Web adaptor" to any text-based source of biomedical information. The Nervana Discovery Solution provides life science knowledge workers the ability to ask questions naturally, within the context of their meanings - in ways they never could before - crossing multiple domains and information repositories. Nervana's unique technology provides sophisticated, dynamic semantic indexing and ranking of content on a wide array of data sources without the need for "manual tagging" or formal semantic markup (text) markup - In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, or instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system. . Nervana integrates with the major enterprise internal data sources such as Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. , Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , Oracle 9i and above, and Documentum Content Management Server. Proprietary information can be connected to Nervana, as can public, web-based materials, making results more valuable. Best of Show Award winners received honorary signage, an awards logo, and an engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. award. They also will be featured on the Bio-IT World website with additional coverage in an upcoming issue of the magazine. For complete coverage of the awards visit www.bio-itworld.com. About Bio-IT World, Inc. Bio-IT World, Inc., publishes information across a variety of media to meet the needs of bio-IT professionals. Coverage focuses on the application of technology products and services to enable the life sciences R&D value chain in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, government and academic research organizations, spanning basic research, drug discovery and development, clinical trials, and regulatory compliance. The company's premier publication, Bio-IT World and accompanying website, www.bio-itworld.com, deliver the latest news, analysis and information on the indispensable technologies driving innovation in the bio-IT community. Bio-IT World also produces the Life Sciences Conference + Expo, now in it's fifth year, along with supporting multiple industry events as strategic and business partners. Bio-IT World has received more than 34 awards for editorial and design excellence.Established in September 2001, Bio-IT World, Inc., headquartered in Framingham, MA., is a business of Cambridge Healthtech Institute. About Cambridge Healthtech Institute CHI's renowned conferences are the underpinning for all our other information resources. Each year, CHI organizes over 80 conferences held throughout the US. including The Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, Beyond Genome, PepTalk, World Pharmaceutical Congress and the new acquired Bio-IT World's Life Sciences Conference & Expo. The company strives to develop quality programs that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business. Leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations present their most current findings in a forum that features panel discussions and audience participation. Over the past 14 years, CHI has produced more than 400 conferences, attracting more than 50,000 attendees from around the world. In addition to CHI's vast conference portfolio, their media properties include PharmaWeek, available on the web only, Pharmaceutical Discovery which will relaunch Relaunch can refer to several things:
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