Ariadne Genomics Wins $750,000 SBIR Grant for Development of Text Mining Software
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.
ROCKVILLE, MD (PRWEB) 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.
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 objects: 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 libraries.
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 .
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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