Clarabridge Brings Unique Text-Mining Expertise to BioIT Alliance.RESTON, Va. -- Clarabridge, a leader in text-mining software, today announced that it has joined the BioIT Alliance, an organization uniting the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries to speed the pace of discovery in life sciences and improve biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. information technology. As a member of the BioIT Alliance, Clarabridge will collaborate with Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and other leading companies on proof-of-concept applications that address critical bottlenecks in biomedical discovery. "We are excited to have Clarabridge on board with the BioIT Alliance," said Don Rule, Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft and Director of the BioIT Alliance. "The early focus of the alliance has been on addressing particular data-capture and integration challenges that hinder the adoption of emerging life-science technologies, and we particularly welcome Clarabridge's expertise and contributions in this area." The data available to life-sciences companies today is growing exponentially in both quantity and complexity. These companies need more comprehensive data-integration solutions, better technical collaboration and stronger knowledge-management capabilities in order to shorten the time between discovery of new biological data and the application of that knowledge to human health. The BioIT Alliance is forging innovative ways to address these challenges and use technology to reduce costs, streamline research and market life-sciences products more effectively. Clarabridge enables its life-science customers to widen their view of their information assets to include both "structured" and "unstructured" data such as medical records, laboratory data and even online blogs and clinical trial data. Clarabridge integrates text-mining, search and business-intelligence functionality in quick-to-implement, simple-to-use software solutions that help life-science companies make better-informed business decisions more quickly. Clarabridge's Content Mining Platform solution de-identifies patient data and integrates with terminology standards such as Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine For the collection of information officially organized with the SNOMED system, see SNOMED CT. The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a multiaxial, hierarchical classification system. (SNOMED SNOMED Standard Nomenclature of Medical Diseases and Operations. SNOMED Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine & Veterinary Health informatics A computerized electronic vocabulary system for medical databases, which may become the standard vocabulary ). "Many companies are able to glean glean v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans v.intr. To gather grain left behind by reapers. v.tr. 1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. 2. insights from structured data sources; we enable a company to also unlock the power of its much larger, untapped wells of unstructured content -- using an integrated platform that brings together all of the pieces necessary to go rapidly from raw text to useful information," said Justin Langseth, president and chief technical officer of Clarabridge. "We look forward to working through the BioIT Alliance to bring these capabilities to bear in the life sciences." About BioIT Alliance Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working together to improve biomedical information technology on the Microsoft platform. Founding members include Affymetrix, Inc., Accelrys Software Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals Amylin Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, CA, that was founded in 1987. Currently, Amylin produces two drugs, Symlin (pramlintide acetate) and Byetta (exenatide). Amylin also is working on producing a drug based on Leptin. , Inc., Applied Biosystems Applied Biosystems, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: ABIO) is the original name of a pioneer biotechnology company founded in 1981 in Foster City, California, among the Silicon Valley cities of the southern San Francisco Bay Area. , The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Discovery Biosciences Corporation, Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc., 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 Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. About Clarabridge Clarabridge enables Fortune 2000 and government customers to transform text into valuable information to improve market research, customer care, product development, quality assurance and risk management. Clarabridge's award-winning software links the worlds of text mining, search and business intelligence (BI) to enable enterprises to more quickly and intuitively leverage all of their data -- internal and external, structured and unstructured -- to make better business decisions. Clarabridge's Content Mining Platform[TM] is the first text mining solution to work seamlessly with standard BI applications, tools and techniques. Clarabridge is headquartered in Reston, Virginia Reston is an internationally known planned community whose goal was to revolutionize post-World War II concepts of land use and residential/corporate development in American suburbia. . For more information, visit www.clarabridge.com. |
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