ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Philips Research, one of the world's largest industrial research institutes, has licensed its MetaCore technology. MetaCore is a very flexible pathway analysis platform that can be utilized with or without experimental data. It contains a lot of domain and disease knowledge that is easily accessible to general users which answers day to day questions of what is upstream or downstream of this gene or how are these metabolites linked via pathways, relevant papers to specific diseases or all papers on a compound binding with a specific ligand.
"We are very pleased with Philips' decision to license MetaCore," said Julie Bryant, GeneGo's VP of Business Development. "We have seen a surge of diagnostic companies, such as Almac Diagnostics becoming GeneGo customers over the last couple of years, and Philips is the latest addition. We welcome the expansion of the scope of systems biology applications beyond drug discovery."
About GeneGo
GeneGo develops systems biology technology for life science research. The original computational MetaDiscovery(TM) platform allows an integration and expert analysis of different kinds of experimental data (mRNA expression, proteomics, metabolomics, microRNA assays and other phenotypic data) and relevant bioactive chemistry (metabolites, drugs, other xenobiotics) within the framework of curated biological pathways and networks. GeneGo's flagship product, MetaCore 4.3(TM), assists pharmaceutical scientists in the areas of target selection and validation, identification of biomarkers for disease states and toxicology. The second product, MetaDrug2.0(TM) is designed for prediction of human metabolism, toxicity and biological effects for novel small molecules compounds. MetaBase(TM) represents the knowledge base for MetaCore. For more information, please visit the company's web site at http://www.genego.com
MetaCore(TM), MetaBase(TM), MetaDrug(TM), MetaLink(TM), MetaDiscovery(TM), MetaTox(TM) and MetaMiner(TM), 1-2-3 Workflow(TM) are trademarks of GeneGo, Inc.
GeneGo, Inc.,CONTACT: Julie Bryant, VP Business Development and Marketing of GeneGo,Inc., +1-858-756-7996, julie@genego.com
Web site: http://www.genego.com/
