ST. LOUIS, April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma(R) Life Science, the innovative biological products and services brand of Sigma-Aldrich(R) , today announced a significant expansion to its web-based biological research portal for exploring dynamic gene-based content, Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity (http://www.wherebiobegins.com/yfg). The latest version of Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity adds a biologically relevant literature search, gene regulation and variation viewers, expression study results, clinical trials, detailed disease relationships, and biochemical compound interactions related to the researcher’s gene of interest.
“We launched Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity to serve as a leading destination for researchers and students exploring diseases, functions and gene pathways,” said Dr. David Smoller, president of Sigma-Aldrich’s Research Biotech business unit. “This expansion allows us to bring the broadest collection of relevant biological information in one place and match it to our comprehensive portfolio of products, enabling researchers to quickly find the products they need to perform their experiments.”
Your Favorite Gene Powered By Ingenuity provides researchers with the capability to model and evaluate prospective experiments in the context of previously published scientific literature, and provides streamlined access to Sigma-Aldrich’s extensive portfolio of validated shRNAs, siRNAs, Prestige Antibodies(R) powered by Atlas antibodies, bioactive small molecules, CompoZr(R) ZFNs, and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The portal is free for all researchers and students, and can be accessed at http://www.wherebiobegins.com/yfg
About Sigma Life Science: Sigma Life Science is a Sigma-Aldrich brand that represents Sigma’s leadership in innovative biological products and services for the global life science market and offers an array of biologically-rich products and reagents that researchers use in scientific investigation. Product areas include biomolecules, genomics and functional genomics, cells and cell-based assays, transgenics, protein assays, stem cell research, epigenetics and custom services/oligonucleotides. Sigma Life Science also provides an extensive range critical bioessentials like biochemicals, antibiotics, buffers, carbohydrates, enzymes, forensic tools, hematology and histology, nucleotides, amino acids and their derivatives, and cell culture media.
About Ingenuity Systems: Ingenuity Systems enables researchers to model, analyze, and understand complex biological and chemical systems foundational to human health and disease. All of Ingenuity’s products and services have one common goal -- to provide relevant context and understanding to life science researchers. The Ingenuity products include pathways analysis software and knowledge bases for life scientists and bioinformaticians, in addition to business solutions focused on semantic search and enterprise knowledge management infrastructure. Ingenuity was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California with offices in Germany, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. www.ingenuity.com.
CONTACT: Sarah Bruno of Sigma-Aldrich, +1-314-286-7810,
sarah.bruno@sial.com; or Richard Kerns, + 44 (0)161-728-5880,
richard@impress-pr.com, or Mark Button, +1-503-616-3817,
mark@impress-pr.com, both of Impress Public Relations, for Sigma-Aldrich
Web site: http://www.sigma-aldrich.com/
