NEW YORK, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- TEMIS, a leading provider of Text Analytics software solutions for the life science industry, announced today that they have entered a strategic software and services agreement with LIFE Biosystems. LIFE Biosystems has chosen TEMIS' acclaimed Luxid(R) for Life Sciences solution to expedite the analysis of clinical and molecular data from diverse textual information sources.
"Structured clinical information is essential to predictive medicine," said Dr. Mathias Goeschl, Head of Text Mining at LIFE Biosystems. "LIFE's commitment to understanding the causative relationship between molecular events and patient outcomes demands an accurate, high-performance solution for the analysis of large-scale bibliographic information. From this perspective, Luxid(R) provides enhanced text mining capabilities to our existing in silico discovery infrastructure and further supports us in generating novel clinical insights and hypotheses."
"We are excited by the synergies created through the integration of Luxid(R) Annotation Factory within LIFE's in silico discovery infrastructure," said Jens Barthelmes, Life Sciences Consultant at TEMIS. "It proves that our Life Science dedicated solution can build upon existing computational infrastructures to provide enhanced analytical and discovery capabilities, by extracting relationships between biomedical entities from text. We are proud to support LIFE Biosystems efforts in this new and exciting field of predictive medicine."
About LIFE Biosystems
LIFE Biosystems is an in silico-driven discovery company dedicated to the field of predictive medicine. Working together the biopharmaceutical industry and comprehensive cancer centers, LIFE Biosystems strives to address the key issues facing clinical research and therapeutic development today. As expert practitioners of in silico discovery in molecular medicine, its goal is to transform patient information and molecular data into a new level of clinical discovery, intellectual property and ultimately, patient benefit.
http://www.lifebiosystems.com
About TEMIS
Founded in 2000, TEMIS is a leading provider of Corporate Text Mining and Text Analytics software solutions. TEMIS addresses the unstructured data management needs of Corporations (Life Sciences, Publishing, Industry) and Governments, in environments where information processing is critical such as Competitive Intelligence, CRM, Scientific Intelligence, IP Management or Quality Management. TEMIS solutions help thousands of users everyday gain immediate access to business critical information, using concepts and meaning extraction, automatic classification and relationship representation, in order to reduce information overload. TEMIS employs about 50 people and operates subsidiaries in France, Germany, and the United States. TEMIS team brings together skilled and experienced managers, researchers and consultants. TEMIS products are distributed worldwide through its partner network. From the very beginning, TEMIS' innovative technology has attracted major groups such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Elsevier, Springer Science+Business Media, and Thomson Scientific. TEMIS won the 2007 European Information and Communications Technology Prize with Luxid(R) Information Intelligence solution.
http://www.temis.com
CONTACT: Press Contacts: TEMIS, Martine Falhon, Corporate Communications,
Tel.: +33(0)456-38-24-03, Email: martine.falhon@temis.com; LIFE Biosystems,
TMC Communications, Tracy C. Donahue, Tel.: +1-857-919-9975, Email:
tracycdonahue@msn.com; LIFE Biosystems GmbH, David Jackson, Ph.D,
Poststrasse 34, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany, Tel.: +49(0)6221-328-4197,
Email: Jackson@lifebiosystems.com
