Ariadne Genomics Announces the Release of PathwayAssist™ 3.0, Biological Pathway Visualization and Analysis Software
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the release of PathwayAssist™ 3.0, desktop software for visualization and analysis of biological pathways. The new software includes a database of 500,000+ molecular interactions for pathway data mining, significantly improved visualization tools, and wizards for data import and export.
ROCKVILLE, MD (PRWEB) November 8, 2004 -- Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today
announced the release of PathwayAssist™ 3.0, desktop software for visualization
and analysis of biological pathways. The new software includes a database of
500,000+ molecular interactions for pathway data mining, significantly improved
visualization tools, and wizards for data import and export.
The
PathwayAssist™ software from Ariadne Genomics’ PathwayStudio™ Suite of products
is a state-of-the-art tool for building, analysis, expansion and navigation of
biological pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps. It
features the expanded ResNet™ database of over 500,000+ biological interactions
extracted from scientific literature using enhanced MedScan™ automated text
processing tool. Integrated into PathwayAssist, MedScan™ enables researchers to
update pathways with the latest information from scientific literature in real
time.
Combined with new improved data import/export
options and enhanced gene expression data analysis functionality, PathwayAssist™
3.0 has the ability to compare and merge pathways. Additionally, facts can be
added to pathways on the fly from input typed by the user.
New
visualization features of PathwayAssist™ 3.0 include: advanced layout options
(symmetric, hierarchical, direct force, and based on cellular localization),
quality resizable pictures of organelles and cell localization compartments, and
special shapes for pathway nodes. Pathway viewing has been enhanced with a new
magnifier window, schematic graphical representation for large pathways, and
grid and node alignment options.
“PathwayAssist™ 3.0 is integrated with
several commercial, manually curated pathway databases: PathArt™ from Jubilant
Biosys (with over 850 disease and signaling pathways), and Metabolic Vision™
from Integrated Genomics (microbial biochemical pathways)”, said Ilya Mazo,
President of Ariadne Genomics. “Integration of the new databases is in line with
our goal to provide customers with the comprehensive collection of pathway
information that spans across multiple functions and organisms. Demo versions of
these databases are available for download with the evaluation copies of
PathwayAssist™ 3.0 software from the Ariadne Genomics
website.”
PathwayAssist™ 3.0 is available for purchasing from Stratagene
worldwide (www.stratagene.com/SoftwareSolutions/) , and from INFOCOM in
Japan (www.infocom.co.jp/bio/). For more information about
PathwayAssist™ 3.0, visit the Ariadne Genomics website www.ariadnegenomics.com.
About Ariadne Genomics
Ariadne Genomics is a Maryland-based company
developing systems biology tools for life science research: Seqware™ sequence
data management platform, and PathwayStudio™ suite of products, which includes
PathwayAssist™, intuitive desktop software for reconstruction, analysis and
visualization of biological pathways, MedScan™ TextMiner, an automated
scientific text processing tool, and ResNet™, a comprehensive molecular networks
database, created by automated extraction of biological facts from the entire
PubMed. More on Ariadne Genomics please find at www.ariadnegenomics.com.
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