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Scimagix Delivers High Content Screening Informatics
09/13/2004
San Mateo, CA - Scimagix, Inc., the market leader in image informatics today
announced the first installations of CellMine HCS - an instrument agnostic
application for storing and mining cell-based assay data. Following on from the
earlier announcement of integration with the Discovery-1 system from Molecular
Devices, CellMine HCS has now been deployed at two major pharmaceutical
companies interfacing to the GE Healthcare InCell 3000. Work is in process to
develop an interface to the GE Healthcare InCell 1000 for another Scimagix
customer. This is a major step forward in Scimagix's delivery of image
management and mining solutions applicable to all images generated in research
and development and further evidence of the utility of image informatics.
"CellMine HCS enables high content screening (HCS) groups to efficiently
scale-up HCS operations by improving operational efficiency, reducing HCS
downtime and enabling data mining that drives improved lead selection decision
making." stated Bob Dunkle, President of Scimagix.
The full value of HCS data is only realized by transformation to compound
knowledge that optimally informs lead selection and optimization -- a critical
business decision. This demands that acquired/ analyzed HCS data be aggregated
across multiple instruments, screening campaigns and assays, integrated with
complementary data such as assay, compound and toxicology data, then jointly
interrogated using multi-parameter criteria to retrieve and view the data
required to optimally support lead selection and optimization decision making.
This presents major data and application integration challenges that can be
resolved by an instrument and application agnostic image data repository built
on a unique combination of open standards and Internet-based multi-tier
architecture that provides for disparate and evolving work flows.
About Scimagix Inc.
Scimagix Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading provider of image
informatics solutions for pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Its
flagship SIMS (Scientific Image Management System) platform, an Oracle/Web-based
database management system, utilizes open architecture to deliver a
comprehensive and searchable image database. Image informatics technology
integrates valuable image and non-image data into SIMS, allowing scientists to
search, mine and analyze all results. For more information about Scimagix,
please visit . For more information on CellMine HCS contact: www.scimagix.com |
