Ariadne Genomics Wins $750,000 SBIR Grant for Development of Text Mining Software
ROCKVILLE, MD, October 6, 2004 – Ariadne Genomics, Inc, a leading developer of systems biology tools for a broad range of biologists, today announced that it has received a $750,000 Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant from the National Institutes of Health. The two-year grant will be used for development of new software product based on MedScan, its proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology.
Ariadne Genomics Wins $750,000 SBIR Grant for Development of Text Mining
Software
ROCKVILLE, MD, October 6, 2004 – Ariadne Genomics, Inc, a
leading developer of systems biology tools, today announced that it has received
a $750,000 Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant from the
National Institutes of Health. The two-year grant will be used for development
of new software products based on MedScan, its proprietary Natural Language
Processing (NLP) technology.
The SBIR award was issued by the National
Center for Research Resources. The new software will extend Ariadne Genomics’
product line of pathway analysis and information extraction tools to a broad
range of biological and medical scientists.
During Phase I, Ariadne
Genomics enhanced MedScan, its proprietary text processing technology, and
assembled ResNet - a comprehensive database of molecular interactions, cell
signaling and gene regulation events. The database is available as a part of
PathwayAssistTM pathway analysis software.
“The past decade of
biomedical research produced overwhelming amounts of data in the form of
peer-reviewed articles. Efficient access to these data has become a bottleneck
in the research process,” said Dr. Nikolai Daraselia, Director of Research at
Ariadne Genomics. “This grant will support the development of easy to use
desktop and client-server software, which will simplify the access to and the
analysis of protein and cellular function information for bio-medical
researchers.”
The concept of new Ariadne Genomics software will be
centered around identification of semantic links that describe functional
relations (e.g., interaction, regulation, involvement in) among biological
entities: cellular processes, cellular components, proteins, small molecules,
diseases, functional groups etc. The product will be available as a desktop or
client-server application, and will work with publicly available text sources,
and with users’ proprietary document collections.
For more information
about Ariadne Genomics Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, MedScanTM,
PathwayAssistTM, ResNet and other products, call (240) 453-6296, or visit
Ariadne Genomics web site at www.ariadnegenomics.com.
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About
Ariadne Genomics
Ariadne Genomics develops desktop software tools for
bio-medical scientists, enabling them to interpret their experimental data:
PathwayAssistTM, an intuitive desktop software for reconstruction, analysis and
visualization of biological pathways; MedScanTM TextMiner, an automated
scientific text mining tool; ResNet, a comprehensive molecular network database,
created by automated extraction of biological facts from the entire PubMed, and
Seqware, a personal sequence data management platform.
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