Basel, Switzerland
September 5, 2008
BASF Plant Science has licensed
Genedata Expressionist® across all of their research centers in
Europe and North America.
Genedata, the leading
provider of in-silico solutions for pharmaceutical R&D and
related life sciences, today announced a new license agreement
with BASF Plant
Science in the plant biotechnology industry. BASF Plant
Science has licensed Genedata Expressionist® across all of their
research centers in Europe and North America.
BASF Plant Science is focused on developing plants for increased
agricultural efficiency, healthier nutrition and as renewable
raw materials. Projects include plants with higher yield, plants
with a higher content of healthy Omega-3 fatty acids for
improved cardiovascular health and potatoes with an optimized
starch composition for use in the paper, textile and
construction industries.
Since researchers from BASF Plant Science analyze thousands of
genes every year, a scalable platform like Genedata
Expressionist for the analysis of large volumes of molecular
profiling data is important to support the identification and
characterization of the most suitable genes.
Genedata Expressionist streamlines workflow-based data
processing and integrated analysis of large experimental
datasets for biomarker identification. Expressionist is used for
automated quality assessment and pre-processing of omics data,
including microarray and PCR data, and allows researchers to
integrate laboratory data with molecular profiling data obtained
by transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics applications.
"BASF Plant Science has created one of the world’s most
efficient gene screening programs for plant biotechnology,”
explained Juergen Logemann, Vice President Technology Management
at BASF Plant Science. "After a thorough market evaluation, the
Expressionist system from Genedata was chosen for its ability to
accurately process and analyze large amounts of expression
profiling data in a high-throughput manner and to efficiently
integrate these complex datasets into our R&D environment."
“We are proud to contribute to the success of research at BASF
Plant Science,” said Dr. Othmar Pfannes, CEO of Genedata. “Today
4 out of the top 6 leading agricultural companies have licensed
Genedata Expressionist for a wide range of R&D applications. The
agricultural sector has become a very exciting growth area for
Genedata.”
Genedata develops and globally
markets sophisticated computational solutions for drug discovery
and related research processes in the life sciences. Genedata’s
solutions enable scientists to process, integrate, analyze, and
manage large and complex experimental data sets generated by
high-throughput technologies. Our solutions include Genedata
Phylosopher® for target discovery and integrative biological
data management, Genedata Screener® for automated high
throughput screening and high content screening, and Genedata
Expressionist® for biomarker discovery and personalized
medicine. Founded in 1997, Genedata is privately held, with
headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and offices in Boston & San
Francisco, USA, Konstanz & Munich, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. For
more information, please visit
www.genedata.com.
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