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Geospiza
Expands Collaboration with Applied Biosystems to Integrate
Genetic Analysis Products
Other Topics: Video Medical
Diagnosis, Intelligent Imaging
Informatics
BUSINESS WIRE
August 28, 2006
Genetic Analysis Integration Tool Provides GeneMapper and
SeqScape Users with the Ability to Directly Query Data Collected
and Managed in Geospiza's Finch Suite
Seattle, WA -- Geospiza, the life science industry's leading
developer of information technology solutions to automate
genetic testing and data production, today announced the
expansion of the companies' 2005 platform collaboration
agreement and its participation in Applied Biosystems' Software
Community Program. The first product resulting from the expanded
collaboration integrates Applied Biosystems' GeneMapper(R) and
SeqScape(R) genetic analysis tools with Geospiza's Finch(R)
Suite data management system, and is expected to dramatically
improve customers' ability to scale and automate their
information technology infrastructure to meet growing challenges
in data analysis and workflow management. |
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"Our expanded
collaboration with Applied Biosystems will be welcomed news to
our joint clinical and life science research customers seeking
fully integrated data management and analysis solutions," noted
Kevin Banks, Ph.D., Vice President of Business Development at
Geospiza. "By deepening the integration between the Geospiza
Finch Suite platform and the widely adopted GeneMapper and
SeqScape applications, our customers can, for perhaps the first
time, invest in a cohesive data generation, management and
analysis system that can easily scale as their data volumes and
throughput needs grow."
Developed in collaboration with Applied Biosystems and supported
by Geospiza, the Finch(R) Suite Genetic Analysis Integration
Tool gives users the ability to leverage the power of the
searchable, shareable, web-based external Finch(R) Suite
database from within Applied Biosystems' GeneMapper(R) and
SeqScape(R) applications. The integrated solution provides users
with significantly improved data management and analysis
workflow and tools for collaboration and for sharing their
research and discovery projects.
"Applied Biosystems is pleased to extend its collaboration with
Geospiza and welcomes the company as a leading participant in
our new Software Community Program," said Kevin Corcoran, Vice
President and General Manager, Applied Biosystems. "Geospiza's
Genetic Analysis Integration Tool exemplifies the leading edge
of scalable data management applications for Applied Biosystems'
genetic analyzers that streamline analysis workflow and increase
data sharing in research laboratories."
Dr. Mary Davis, Head of the Neurogenetics Laboratory at the
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, UK,
notes, "With demands for our molecular diagnostic services
continuing to grow, we are very pleased that Applied Biosystems
and Geospiza are working together to develop integrated software
solutions that will help us automate and scale our genetic
testing and data production."
Geospiza is already supporting select customers in full
production with the Genetic Analysis Integration Tool and plans
to make it commercially available beginning September 4, 2006.
Under the terms of the agreement, Geospiza will assume
responsibility for the distribution and support of the new
integration tool. For more information, please go to: http://www.geospiza.com/appliedbiosystems/.
About Geospiza
Founded in 1997, Geospiza combines deep life science and IT
expertise to deliver our customers highly scalable, fully
integrated, regulatory compliant informatics platforms for
scaling their laboratory workflow, scientific data management
and analytics workflows. The company's customers are primarily
diagnostic laboratories, biotechnology and pharmaceutical
companies, contract core labs, large research institutes and
universities, involved in clinical DNA testing, manufacturing
DNA based bio-therapeutics, delivering sequencing services to
outside customers and basic life science research and discovery
efforts. More information is available at http://www.geospiza.com/.
Finch is a registered trademark of Geospiza. GeneMapper and
SeqScape are registered trademarks of Applera Corporation in the
United States and certain other countries.
Contact Geospiza Michele Marthens Banks, 206-633-4403 michele@geospiza.com |
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