BioDiscovery, Tecan Collaborate on Integration of Microarray Hybridization Data Management with GeneDirector®
BioDiscovery, Inc. and Tecan announced today a collaboration offering researchers a solution for comprehensive data management that helps to better interpret and verify microarray results. The collaboration is based on direct integration of data collected by Tecan’s HS series of automated hybridization stations with BioDiscovery’s GeneDirector® microarray data management software.
El Segundo, CA (PRWEB) June 29, 2005 -- BioDiscovery, Inc. and Tecan
announced today a collaboration offering researchers a solution for
comprehensive data management that helps to better interpret and verify
microarray results. The collaboration is based on direct integration of data
collected by Tecan’s HS series of automated hybridization stations with
BioDiscovery’s GeneDirector® microarray data management software. GeneDirector®
is an enterprise software solution for microarray data management that fully
supports MIAME compliance. This integration enables the user to automatically
capture, store and relate all the information about a particular microarray
hybridization run on Tecan’s HS instruments to the arrays stored in the
GeneDirector® database. This information can be used for QC purposes and also
correct for process biases to ensure the accuracy of array experimental
results.
“Ensuring reliability and reproducibility of results are still
big challenges for researchers in the field of microarrays”, said Johannes
Posch, Product Manager at Tecan. “Improvement in this respect can be achieved by
standardization of experiments through process automation and comprehensive data
management that helps to track and relate data from specific experimental
conditions. Therefore we highly welcome the collaboration with BioDiscovery in
order to offer microarray users increased value of their genomic and proteomic
research.”
"It is wonderful that Tecan has had the foresight to design a
system that automatically captures all the relevant information about a
hybridization run in an electronic format", said Dr. Soheil Shams, President of
BioDiscovery. “We are pleased that our GeneDirector customers can now import
this information into the GeneDirector database with a single mouse click.
GeneDirector will parse and correctly associate the hybridization parameters to
individual array hybridizations in the database.”
Background on
Tecan:
Tecan (www.tecan.com)
is a leading player in the health care supply industry that specializes in the
development, production, and distribution of solutions enabling the discovery of
pharmaceutical substances, as well as for genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics.
Tecan clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, university
research departments and diagnostic laboratories. Founded in Switzerland in
1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both
North America and Europe and maintains a sales and service network in 52
countries.
Background on BioDiscovery:
Founded in 1997 in Los Angeles,
BioDiscovery is a leader in the development of microarray bioinformatics
software and services. BioDiscovery offers a complete suite of software products
for the entire microarray workflow, including collection, management and
integration of all data associated with array experiments. GeneDirector manages
the flow of data through the stages of array layout, automated image analysis,
and statistically robust data analysis.
For more information about Tecan
contact:
Marketing Communications, Tecan Schweiz AG
Seestrasse 103,
CH-8708 Männedorf, Switzerland
Tel +41 (0)44 922 88 88, Fax +41 (0)44 922 82
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For more information about BioDiscovery
contact:
BioDiscovery, Inc.
Warren Lei
Phone: (310) 414-8100
ext.231
Fax: (310) 414-8111
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Website: www.biodiscovery.com
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