LabKey Software Joins BioIT Alliance.Solutions to accelerate large-scale, collaborative research by helping teams produce more definitive answers to complex scientific questions SEATTLE -- 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 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. , 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 daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin 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 The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , LabKey is well-positioned to deliver solutions to meet these challenges through web applications backed by robust relational databases like 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. . 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  The external links in this article or section may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. . Founding members include Accelrys Software Inc., Affymetrix,
Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied
Biosystems, 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., 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 ELISA (e-li´sah) Enzyme-Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay; any enzyme immunoassay using an enzyme-labeled immunoreactant and an immunosorbent. ELISA n. , Luminex and neutralizing antibody neu·tral·iz·ing antibody n. An antibody that reacts with an infectious agent, usually a virus, and destroys or inhibits its infectiveness and virulence. experiments, as well as high-throughput data produced by mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. , flow cytometry flow cytometry (flōˑ sī·t  ˑ·m 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[TM] 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 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, philanthropic institution founded in 1994 by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, to improve the lives of the poor throughout the world, primarily through grants for projects relating to global health care, funded Center for HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI CHAVI Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (US NIAID) ) 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. |
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