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Using MS Office for Life Sciences data

persistent — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:22:00 GMT

Using MS Office formats for representing Life Sciences data

PERSISTENT SYSTEMS PARTNERS WITH MICROSOFT AS A PART OF BioIT ALLIANCE

persistent — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:57:00 GMT

October 19, 2006, Pune: Persistent Systems today announced establishing a partnership with Microsoft, to become a part of the BioIT Alliance.

Through this partnership, Persistent will leverage its core strength in data integration, data mining & data analysis and provide the Alliance with solutions and tools to analyze, integrate and disseminate data quickly and effortlessly.

Commenting on this partnership, Aditya Pathak, Product Manager, Life Sciences - Persistent Systems said, "For the last eight years, Persistent's Life Sciences team, which is into developing software solutions and tools in the discovery, clinical and pre clinical research workspaces, has been providing support to leading research institutes in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This Alliance has only strengthened our proficiency in the Life Sciences area."

The BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working to integrate science and technology with a view to shorten the time from discovery to application of new biological knowledge. Its aim is to explore new methods of sharing complex biomedical data by encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration in order to ultimately speed the pace of drug discovery and development.

The Life Sciences solutions group at Persistent focuses mainly on systems biology, translational medicine and lab automation. With a core domain knowledge the team has successfully provided solutions for Genomics, Proteomics, Clinical informatics and Cheminformatics. Persistent has developed expertise and reusable software components that help in providing services ranging from data integration and warehousing to compliance and analytics.

About Persistent Systems:

Persistent Systems is one of the leading players in the Software Product Development Industry. Persistent pioneered the offshore centric product development model 16 years ago, and has since established an impeccable delivery record with more than 800 release cycles and over 170 clients, ranging from start ups to matured companies.

With a highly skilled team of more than 2700 software professionals (Nov. 2006), world-class processes, infrastructure and experience, Persistent today offers customers unmatched capability in leverage cutting-edge skills, reduce time-to-market, rationalize product development budget and optimize end-to-end product development.

About BioIT Alliance: Spearheaded by Microsoft, BioIT Alliance was formed in April 2006, and comprises pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries. Their aim is to explore new methods of sharing complex biomedical data by encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration in order to ultimately speed the pace of drug discovery and development. This would bring together science and technology leaders to consider innovative ways to address these challenges.

Persistent Life Sciences

persistent — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:52:00 GMT

To offer maximum benefits to our customers, Persistent has created the center of excellence for life sciences with a strong balance of people, processes and technologies, bound together with the right infrastructure and best practices.

To know more about Persistent Life Sciences, please visit us: http://www.persistentsys.com/services/competencycenters/lifesciencescompetency.htm

Life Sciences Solutions

persistent — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:57:00 GMT

Solutions that help in capture, integration, sharing, querying and visualization of post genomic data.

Persistent at a glance

persistent — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:50:00 GMT

This flash presentation illustrates Persistent Systems portfolio. To view please go to the page (http://www.persistentsys.com/resourcecenter/presentations.htm#) and click on “Persistent at a glance”.

Facilitating complex analytical queries through a data warehousing solution

persistent — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:29:00 GMT

A data warehouse solution, that takes the analysis load off the existing production database and facilitate complex analytical queries. We provided this solution to the MIT-Broad Institute for Genome Research

Link : http://www.persistentsys.com/customers/casestudies/mitboard.htm

Integrated biological databases

persistent — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:21:00 GMT

In this paper on VLDB, we discuss the challenges of integration of multiple biomedical data sets and present a data warehousing based solution.

We have worked on this in collaboration with the Washington University, School of Medicine. Link: http://www.persistentsys.com/customers/casestudies/pdfs/VLDB.pdf