Bio-IT World Launches People's Choice Award

UPDATED: Voting is now closed.  

April 16, 2015 | With the countdown on to the 2015 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, we are thrilled to announce the first Bio-IT World People’s Choice award as part of the Best of Show program.

The Best of Show Awards offers exhibitors at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo an opportunity to showcase their new products. A team of expert judges views entries on site and chooses winners in four categories based on the product’s technical merit, functionality, innovation, and in-person presentations.

This year, for the first time, we are opening up the program to public voting as well. All of the Best of Show entries will be eligible for the People’s Choice Award. Voting will open at 5:00 pm ET on Tuesday, April 21, and will remain open until 1:00 pm ET on Wednesday, April 22.

The four awards named by the judges and the People’s Choice Award will be announced at a live event on the Bio-IT World Expo floor at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, April 22.

We are excited to have the community’s input this year on the best new products on display at Bio-IT World. Watch the Bio-IT World Twitter account @BioITWorld for the voting link next Tuesday at 5:00 ET.

-- The Editors

 

Avere Systems (Booth 437)
Product Name: FXT 3850 Edge Filer
AvereSystems.com/products/fxt-series 

The FXT Edge Filer contains both Flash/Solid State Drive (SSD) media and Serial Attached SCSI hard drives (SAS HDD) and delivers significant performance gains in benchmark testing. Its tiered storage technology automatically tiers data across four media types: RAM, SSD, SAS and SATA HDDs, delivering maximum performance for the most used files, while at the same time moving unused data out of the performance tier and onto SATA to minimize costs and shrink the data storage footprint.

The FXT Edge filer come in both software-only and hardware solutions for both hybrid cloud and traditional environments. The Virtual FXT (vFXT) acts as NAS in cloud compute, freeing data to be stored anywhere, while providing complete Edge Filer functionality. Configurations of the physical FXTs balance fast Flash SSDs with less expensive SAS HDDs to manage “hot” (currently active) and “warm” (soon to be active) data between compute user and storage. DRAM and NVRAM accelerate the read, write and metadata performance.

FlashMove simplifies the management of NAS environments and enables live data to be load-balanced across existing systems.

FlashCloud eliminates the latency associated with the cloud leveraging the Avere Edge-Core architecture to get active data right where users need it. It provides high availability access to limitless data in the cloud.

  

Bina Technologies (Booth 260)
Product Name: Bina Genomic Management Solutions
Bina.com/product 

Bina GMS is a centralized, enterprise software solution for management of genomic data sets. It provides an efficient, fast, robust, scalable and cost effective solution to process, analyze, visualize and manage the common data types used within the genomics industry.

Bina GMS includes two software modules for data analysis:

*Bina AAiM - Annotate in minutes, query & filter in seconds with the Bina Annotation and Analytics Intelligence Module.

*Bina RAVE - Accelerate NGS analysis with the Bina Read Alignment, Variant Calling, and Expression Module.

Flexible deployment options suit unique genomic data analysis and IT needs:

*Bina Virtual Private Cloud - Scalable and private cloud-based deployment (e.g. Amazon Web Services) to benefit from elasticity of the cloud.

*Bina Rack - NGS analysis accelerated with powerful, rack-mountable, 4-node, 64-CPU server with seamlessly integrated data storage and management system. The scale-out architecture allows elasticity to achieve any throughput necessary.

*Bina Desktop - Speed of genome analysis reduced from days/weeks to hours with a small workstation. Bina Desktop ships with 5TB of reusable local storage for ease of integration and immediate use in the lab.

  

Biomatters (Booth 320)
Product Name - Geneious R8
Geneious.com 

Geneious R8 is a comprehensive and integrated bioinformatics platform that provides a suite of tools, which enable researchers to work efficiently. The CRISPR design tool is one of the many new features in the latest version update.

Using a “glass-box” approach for software design, Geneious R8 offers a comprehensive suite of peer-reviewed tools that enable researchers to be efficient with their bioinformatic workflows. Researchers at all levels can easily manage, analyze, and share their sequence data via a single intuitive application. Geneious R8 provides tools for sequence assembly & analysis, alignment, in silico cloning, and phylogenetics.

Geneious R8 is a cross platform Java application that will run on Windows, Mac or Linux. Users can leverage the publicly available API to create new plugins, which extend and customize the functionality of the platform.

With Geneious R8, you have two options for storing your sequence data: 1) Locally, in the form of an efficient binary file format, which is designed for the rapid streaming of data from disk to handle the challenging resource requirements of large data sets, and 2) Centrally, which takes advantage of standard relational databases. Central storage of the data allows multiple users across sites to concurrently use the same synchronized storage location.

  

BIOVA (Booth 316)
Product Name: ScienceCloud 2015
ScienceCloud.com 

BIOVIA ScienceCloud is a cloud-based information management and collaboration workspace supporting globally networked drug discovery R&D. ScienceCloud has expanded rapidly this year with new capabilities including biologics handling, scientific data visualization and assay data analysis, while providing the following capabilities:

• ScienceCloud Projects: Secure project management and sharing of structured data and documents using a collaborative social networking approach. Tools for capturing, cleaning, registering and sharing chemistry, biologics and assay data with external partners.
• ScienceCloud Experiments: A flexible, multi-disciplinary, low-cost-of-ownership electronic laboratory notebook for sharing experimental methods and capturing intellectual property.
• ScienceCloud Analysis Tools: A browser and mobile-friendly analysis application helps scientists rapidly answer scientific questions and turn massive amounts of data into meaningful knowledge. A workbench for antibody lead discovery saves time and reduces costs associated with errors or lack of accessible information early in the process. The workbench replaces manual, error-prone processes of collecting, collating and analyzing data used in antibody candidate development.
• ScienceCloud Authoring: A cloud-based version of the industry-standard BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot scientific workflow application facilitates the authoring and management of scientific services. Teams can implement standard business rules and publish them as services to ScienceCloud applications such as Project Data, Mobile, Web Tasks and Analysis.
• ScienceCloud Collections and APIs: Enable integration and synchronization between ScienceCloud applications and on-premises systems while also supporting automation of data processing procedures.
• Other ScienceCloud capabilities include Tasks, an application for deploying research tasks to mobile devices and the Exchange, a site for scientific developers to share services as a way to drive rapid innovation.

 

Cambridge Semantics Inc. (Booth 336)
Product Name: Data Lake for Clinical Trial and Competitive Intelligence
CambridgeSemantics.com 

Cambridge Semantics and Informa have combined graph technology in the Anzo Smart Data platform with the world’s most comprehensive, real-time R&D and commercial Intelligence content to provide a powerful and comprehensive clinical and competitive intelligence platform for search, reporting and analytics.

The solution can be delivered on premise or in the cloud.

The Anzo Smart Data Platform is a semantics standards based set of software and tools combines with a modern, enterprise-class services oriented and event driven architecture. The platform sets the foundation for building and deploying Smart Data solutions by leveraging industry-defined semantic models or company defined models to link and manage diverse data. The semantic models are graph models. They allow for the data to be linked by business concepts and allow for the metadata to travel with the data. The platform includes integrated software modules for improved crawling, analytics, text processing, machine learning and language translation

Informa examines and perfects millions of facts and entities including pipeline drugs and diseases, clinical trial studies, sites and investigators, and industry and regulatory forecasts - giving you access to the most extensive dataset of expertise, experience and capacity.

The full suite of Informa pharmaceutical clinical trial products has been developed to allow easy cross-navigation, allowing you to move seamlessly from pipeline analysis and drug trial records to profiles of clinical trial investigators. When combined with semantic graph database technology, these data sets offer unparalleled search and analysis.

 

Cleversafe (Booth 432)
Product Name: Dispersed Storage (dsNet)
Cleversafe.com/products/product-portfolio 

Cleversafe delivers a breakthrough software platform that solves petabyte-and-beyond storage challenges, while reducing costs by 80 percent or more with superior carrier-grade security, up to nine nines of reliability and simplified storage management. Designed to manage storage at scale, the world’s largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe.

Cleversafe’s object-based storage solution leverages information dispersal algorithms coupled with encryption to expand, transform, slice and disperse data across a network of storage nodes. The system is very flexible and can be deployed as virtual appliances or as a software application on compatible, customer-provided systems.

This storage system stores data much more efficiently than traditional storage systems that need to maintain multiple copies of the same data, Cleversafe’s unique architecture uses a single instance of data with a minimal expansion of the data in order to maintain data integrity and availability.

Cleversafe’s Value Proposition:

• Petabyte and Beyond Scalability
• Over 15x More Data Managed per Administrator
• Zero Touch Encryption and Security
• Always On Operations
• 80% Reduced Long-Term Total Cost of Ownership

Potential uses for Cleversafe dsNet include:
• Content Repository
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Storage-as-a-Service
• Backup
• Archive

Content Analyst Company (Booth 104)
Product Name: Cerebrant Insight Platform
ContentAnalyst.com 

Cerebrant is a revolutionary, new web-based discovery platform designed to enable health informatics professionals to gain rapid insight into big content such as event reports and studies in literature and FDA Guidances to identify relevant issues quickly expose incredibly powerful correlations buried within these massive collections of unstructured health information. Insights delivered through intelligent visualizations lead to faster and better insight, decisions and communication.

Cerebrant uses patented, deterministic text analytics technology to quickly take health informatics professionals from the known to the unknown across large, disparate collections of unstructured content in any language– all via a single web-based user interface.

Cerebrant works like a knowledgeable assistant with computer speed, consistency and objectivity, expanding one’s understanding of a topic or concept with the most conceptually relevant related content. Users simply take a selection of text ranging in size from a short phrase, sentence, paragraph or entire document and through its machine learning, Cerebrant can identify the most conceptually related documents and terms across numerous content sets ranging from tens of thousands to millions of text items. Users can navigate, explore, and drill into conceptually related content subsets using Cerebrant’s interactive and intuitive graphical text visualizations.

As a highly secure, web-based platform, Cerebrant requires no IT involvement to implement and maintain. Uses simply need a common web browser and Internet connectivity to use the product. Cerebrant comes with several content repositories included for health informatics professionals, and additional repositories may be added by the user.

 

Core Informatics (Booth 337)
Product Name: Core Collaboration v1
CoreInformatics.com 

Multiple secure Collaboration Spaces can be created or decommissioned within hours using a single compute infrastructure, and rapidly pre-populated with the appropriate products and applications using established business rules. Collaboration Spaces are accessible from any device at any time, and can be configured to support any scientific discipline. Collaboration Dashboards provide immediate management updates via synchronous data exchange, giving insight across all partner activities.

Core Collaboration provides a multi-tenant data management platform enabling informatics professionals with the opportunity to rapidly commission and decommission dedicated and secure collaboration spaces. Built on Platform for Science, Core Collaboration enables customers with the ability to leverage Core LIMS, ELN and SDMS to provide tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each activity. Administrators will have the ability to purchase a pool of licenses to be applied across the infrastructure while leveraging common configurations to create and enforce data compliance standards. Scientists can access collaboration dashboards which aggregate and report key performance metrics across collaborations into a single view. Triggers automate the process of data brokerage from one collaboration space to another or from one collaboration space into an instance of PFS Enterprise.

Core Collaboration supports multisite R&D, externalized R&D, contract research organization engagements, consortia and academic IP models. It supports different rules for IP protection and governs information flow.

  

Cray Inc. (Booth 255)
Product Name: Urika-XA
Cray.com/products/analytics/urika-xa 

The Urika-XA Extreme Analytics Platform is a pre-integrated, open platform for high-performance analytics. It enables organizations to gain insight and capture business value rapidly through advanced analytics, using either the pre-configured Apache Hadoop and Spark frameworks or user-installed analytic tools.

The Urika-XA system is a ready-made 48-node Hadoop cluster in a single 42U rack, which each node featuring two 16-core Intel Xeon processors. A single rack includes:
- Over 1,500 CPU cores
- 6 TB of RAM
- 38 TB of SSD high-speed storage
- 48 TB of local disk storage
- 120 TB of shared storage, provided by a Cray Sonexion 900 scale-out storage system
- InfiniBand performance networking

The pre-configured Urika-XA software stack comprises:
- Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop
- Apache Spark, for in-memory cluster computing
- The Urika-XA Management System, which provides a unified management layer for hardware and software systems management

With its ability to support both low-latency and batch analytics, ease of management, and standards-based design, Urika-XA provides enterprises a multi-use, turnkey analytics environment at a low total cost of ownership.

 

Cycle Computing (Booth 360)
Product Name: CycleCloud 4.9
CycleComputing.com 

SIMPLE & SECURE CLOUD HPC WITH CYCLECLOUD
CycleCloud manages all of the vital elements of workload management: security, reporting & auditing, Cloud orchestration, onboarding applications, and operational support - all in a simple & secure way.

CYCLECLOUD FREES RESEARCHERS TO THINK AS BIG AS THE PROBLEM
CycleCloud is the leading software for creating Technical Computing and HPC clusters in the Cloud, from modest sized systems of 64-6,400 cores to systems that rank as some of the fastest computers in the world (156,000+ cores). CycleCloud makes it easy to deploy, secure, automate, and manage running pipelines and analysis dynamically - in most cases with a single click.

CycleCloud eliminates the delays, configuration, administration, and sunken hardware costs out of HPC clusters. Now researchers can use CycleCloud to size the infrastructure to the technical question, rather than the existing method of sizing the question to the infrastructure.

 

  

Cycle Computing  (Booth 360)
Product Name: DataMan 4.9.5
CycleComputing.com 

SECURE, SIMPLE, DATA-AWARE SCHEDULING AT SCALE

Large-scale data challenges are addressed with DataMan to sync with in-house infrastructure and provide a burst submission to Cloud that is policy-driven. At the same time it provides a secure, and simple archival/retrieval Cloud storage solution.

Secure & Simple
To meet even the most stringent requirements for enterprise data movement, DataMan has several automatic features:
- All data is automatically encrypted using enterprise encryption key management
- All encryption keys are created and stored on-site, outside of the cloud provider
- A centralized access point allows for multi-user support for shared access to DataMan for management of data scheduling & archiving, using permission policies
- A pluggable encryption framework allows adding support for new encryption schemes and devices easily 

Data-aware, Source Agnostic
DataMan accurately tags and stores data files that enable users to quickly identify needed files and retrieve them.

Whether on internal filesystems or multiple cloud storage services between AWS and Azure, DataMan makes access all systems easy. Regardless of the source, the software securely manages data transfers ensuring data is in the right place at the right time.

Scale
A 1.2 Petabyte Cloud data transfer for a large life sciences and genomic company, DataMan continues to set industry-records showcasing the software’s ability to conduct efficient transfers at scale. DataMan achieves this scale by optimizing bandwidth, and supports just-in-time, recurring, or scheduled transfers.

Through the use of multiple threads, DataMan is able to maximize bandwidth utilization, enabling large-scale data transfers.

Dell in conjunction with Appistry (Booth 417)
Product Name: GenomePilot V1.0
Appistry.com 

GenomePilot is a client/server application that enables any researcher to define and execute complex NGS analysis processes using an intuitive, browser-based interface. All tools, data, and processes are organized and accessible through intelligent tiles that can be enabled or disabled by simply pointing and clicking. Context-sensitive prompts help users select parameters appropriate to different processes or actions.

The application includes several preconfigured processes that can be executed on either FASTQ or BAM input files: quality control, alignment, single-sample analysis (exome, whole genome or gene panel), tumor/normal and tumor/unmatched normal cancer studies. A wide-ranging collection of best-in-class tools are included covering all aspects of NGS analysis: quality assessment (e.g., FastQC), alignment (e.g., BWA), sample preparation (e.g., GATK BQSR), variant discovery (e.g., GATK Haplotype Caller, MuTect, SomaticSniper, Pindel), and variant annotation (using multiple datasources such as 1000 Genomes, ClinVar, dbSNP). Tools can be selected by users to build custom processes for gathering specific data. Further analysis can be conducted with the integrated tool, VarSeeker, which provides easy real-time filtering and visualization of variants. GenomePilot runs on Mac or Linux servers with a browser-based client.

 

Eagle Genomics (Booth 128)
Product Name: eaglecore v2.0
EagleGenomics.com 

eaglecore is a web-based, secure, integrated platform developed by Eagle Genomics in collaboration with market-leading life science organizations to solve information stewardship problems and allow easy access to data, enabling faster research and reduced costs. It is a modern platform that uses the latest software technologies and development techniques to provide a fast and robust user experience.

eaglecore addresses the problems caused by a lack of information stewardship by providing a central hub and catalogue structure from which to manage and monitor all experimental data and metadata across an entire global organization.

Data can be uploaded or referenced from existing systems or the cloud (e.g. AWS). Following curation, this federated information can be shared in a structured and controlled way and this approach is generally applicable across any experimental data type such as genomics assays.

The eaglecore model has been designed with the researcher in mind; it is based on the Investigation / Study / Assay (ISA) framework. At the top level are investigations (project contexts), these contain studies (units of research), and these in turn contain assays (analytical measurements). The raw or processed data is associated to assays, either as attached or linked files. Ontology support gives data consistency, and aids the simple but powerful search in returning the correct results quickly and accurately.

To increase access further, metadata and data can exported to third party programs for further analysis via the restful API and also securely shared with colleagues and external collaborators.

 

Exostar (Booth 344)
Product Name: Secure Access Manager
Exostar.com 

Secure Access Manager (SAM) is Exostar’s turn-key, cloud-based authentication portal to the Life Sciences Identity Hub and the applications connected to it. SAM is the entry point for over 700 life science organizations to access a secure cloud network, share information, collaborate, innovate, and launch new products and solutions. SAM provides identity and access management functionality, allowing “cleared” third-party users to access partner data stores and applications across hundreds of life science companies, universities, and government agencies worldwide. Leveraging similar solutions developed to secure critical platforms for the Aerospace & Defense industry, SAM provides unprecedented security and accountability as well as easy user access, all with Web single sign-on (SSO).

Using SAM, ecosystem partners reach the entire community cloud by connecting only once to the hub, eliminating complex networking and security overhead. In addition, the identity hub solution allows companies to leverage an existing community of interest to connect to applications and provide a single pathway to internal applications. That means that, with a single connection, an organization and its users (with permissions) can access the apps and data of all other organizations. This is true even when new organizations and apps are added, thus saving time and cost for everyone.

  

IDBS (Booth 454 & 456)
Product Name: E-WorkBook 10
IDBS.com/simple 

E-WorkBook 10 is a web-enabled electronic laboratory notebook that makes it easy to capture, report and share scientific data. It helps connect people and data, enabling faster innovation and the development of discoveries that can change lives. Users derive value from their data and intellectual property (IP) so that scientists are able to focus on what they do best – the science.

The single platform provides a trustworthy record of company IP, eliminating the time wasted on the manual transcription and data entry of paper-based working. It also reduces the likelihood of IP being lost through notebooks going missing or worse, stolen. As end-to-end data becomes more important to companies to show ownership of IP, E-WorkBook 10 is able to capture data in real time and verify inventorship, thus protecting companies’ investment.

With a focus on usability, E-WorkBook 10 meets the needs of scientists in the lab while also providing value for money through the reduced requirement for in-depth training to support its uptake. The intuitive infrastructure streamlines the path from data input through to reporting, requiring fewer clicks. Moving the technology to the web for the first time also makes it flexible and more cost-effective for companies to deploy to their teams and collaborators.

E-WorkBook 10 supports Microsoft Office and common image formats. The new web-enabled spreadsheet and interface delivers workflow driven data capture, analysis and reporting. Both unstructured and structured content is made searchable and tagging/commenting functionalities encourage collaboration. Users can tailor the solution according to their preferences.

 

 

 

Illumina, Inc. (Booth 129)
Product Name: NextBio Clinical
Illumina.com/informatics/translational-research/nextbio-clinical.html 

NextBio Clinical is designed to integrate omics data with multi-dimensional and high variance phentoytpic data and allow clinicians and researchers to launch population-level data analytics. We provide a number of advanced analytical methods across thousands of patients in real time. Cohorts of patients can be stratified and compared at the molecular and clinical level, in order to discover biomarkers, evaluate patient’s response to therapies and inform recruitment of patients for clinical trials. Analysis of individual genomic markers is enabled through a specialized computational engine that correlates clinical and molecular data across all relevant data sources. Users are provided with real-time on-the-fly reports of the most statistically significant biomarkers based on clinical and molecular criteria. Clinical outcomes, such as Kaplan-Meyer statistics, are likewise calculated in real time based on user-selected criteria. An encyclopedia of cancer cell line drug response lets users identify molecular biomarkers or signatures in patients that may indicate sensitivity or resistance to therapies.

NextBio Clinical also provides an extensively curated, comprehensive collection of public patient molecular and clinical data. Illumina continuously processes and uploads new patient data sets as they become available. Illumina ensures that data from varied sources use an interoperable semantic framework, enabling analytics on top of a much larger, combined data set.

 

 

  

Lab7 Systems (Booth 419)
Product Name: Lab7 Enterprise Sequencing Platform
Lab7.io 

The flagship product from Lab7 Systems is the Enterprise Sequencing Platform (ESP), a horizontally-integrated comprehensive software solution to manage NGS laboratories. The Lab7 ESP contains all of the primary functional components for a sequencing operation, including sample & lab protocol tracking and management to maintain records of everything that happens to a biological sample as it’s processed for sequencing, analysis pipeline management to organize, decipher, and annotate data as it is generated by sequencing instruments, and a report generation tool that allows the creation of customized reports to assess the data in genomic and scientific context. The goal of the software is to enable all of the functional processes to occur under a single umbrella, allowing everything to be tracked from sample submission through results reporting.

 

 

Liaison Healthcare Informatics (Booth 248)
Product Name: Liaison Alloy Health: Registry version 1.1
Liaison.com 

The Liaison Alloy Health: Registries are pre-built or custom applications that utilize an expandable medical ontology to collect and store data in a cloud-hosted database in relevant and meaningful ways. In addition, the registries come with a suite of tools designed to allow users to build or modify data collection forms, load existing datasets, perform ad-hoc queries, and create meaningful graphics.

Forms are built using “ontology concepts.” Each concept in the ontology (i.e. patient first name or dosage of acetaminophen) contains metadata that keeps different datapoints related in the correct way (“this dosage of acetaminophen is for Larry”). When data is entered into a form it is handed to the Data Access Layer (DAL), which uses this metadata to generate the SQL necessary to properly store the data. The querying tool provides a drag-and-drop interface for quickly querying data that leverages the power of the DAL, allowing users to ask the questions that they want without having to write SQL of their own. Once the data is loaded and stored accurately it will be passed to the visualize tool where it can be utilized to display data in meaningful ways that can uncover unseen patterns and improve ability for communicating progress or areas of improvement.

Linguamatics (Booth 356)
Product Name: I2E 4.3
Linguamatics.com 

Linguamatics I2E 4.3 represents a major advance in Linguamatics award-winning NLP-based text mining platform. Linguamatics I2E uses natural language processing (NLP) to go beyond conventional search and understand the meaning of text. I2E delivers dramatically improved speed to actionable insight, using linguistic algorithms to automatically mine, analyze and connect relevant knowledge buried in vast amounts of textual data and generate higher quality, targeted results for better decision support.

I2E is used by top commercial, academic and government organizations, including 17 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and leading US hospitals. I2E can be used to mine a wide variety of text resources, such as scientific literature, patents, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), clinical trials data, news feeds, social media and proprietary content. I2E can be deployed as an in-house enterprise system, solely on the cloud or via a hybrid cloud-based & in-house system.

The latest release features Linguamatics Connected Data Technology which allows a text mining query to be run simultaneously over multiple data sources, whether they are located locally or on the cloud. The results from the different data sources are integrated together as a single result set that is sorted and clustered for faster analysis. Connected Data Technology uses an innovative federated text mining architecture, which has been integrated into the I2E text mining platform. This is the first time this type of federated technology is available to users of text mining systems.

  

Modus Operandi  (Booth 329)
Product Name: Modus Operandi VIA (version 1.0.5)
ModusOperandi.com 

Modus Operandi VIA (MOVIA) is a state-of-the-art big data analytics tool that utilizes a context engine to provide in-stream processing of data for predictive pattern matching generating near-real-time alerts. MOVIA can ingest data in batch or streaming formats and can also query external data sources on demand, where the system reaches back into native data sources and pulls in only the data necessary to perform a given analysis. Context is captured inside of formally-designed models encompassing corporate threats, trust, trends, profiles, etc. Based on those contexts, domain-specific bio-based models are created to capture information about a given area of interest.

 

MOVIA integrates seamlessly with structured data sources (databases), semi-structured sources (spreadsheets) and unstructured sources (text-based sources). Regardless of the type of data, entities are identified and auto-classified based on advanced inference from within the system’s reasoner. Data is persisted within a scalable graph store. The reasoner enhances raw data using Object Logic – which is far superior to the description logics seen in most semantic systems. Data is intelligently threaded across models to provide scalability. VIA Views provides flexible and highly extensible user interfaces (UIs) automatically created directly from the underlying semantic models, giving the user seamless connectivity thereby improving data sharing and collaboration. The VIA Alerting mechanism is triggered by the reasoner’s logic to provide automated warnings to human users as SMS messages, texts, emails, etc. or to kick off processes in other compute nodes within the IT infrastructure.

 

 

 

Molecular Health (Booth 452)
Product Name: TreatmentMAP
MolecularHealth.com 

We build technology-driven products that change the way diseases are analyzed, understood, diagnosed and treated.

Our technology platform Nucleus is one of the most comprehensive bioinformatics platforms in the world.

Nucleus is constantly updated with the most current information to interpret complex molecular patient information, e.g. cancer genomes.

All of our products stem from our vision to develop technologies that enable precision medicine. The challenge is to combine the individual molecular and clinical information of a single patient with all relevant biomedical knowledge in a way that yields a practical application optimized for each patient.

No other company can deliver a similar set of high quality content aggregation, knowledge mining tools and high potential evaluation and interpretation engines.

 

Qumulo, Inc. (Booth 132)
Product Name: Qumulo Core
Qumulo.com 

Founded by the inventors of scale-out NAS at Isilon Systems (acquired by EMC for $2.5B), Adobe, and Wily Technology (acquired by CA Technologies), Qumulo is reimagining enterprise storage. Qumulo founders invented OneFS and Isilon scale-out NAS (collectively the three Qumulo co-founders are named on 55 of the 62 technology patents granted for Isilon OneFS).

Qumulo’s flagship solution, Qumulo Core, is the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS software that helps CIOs and storage administrators store, manage and curate enormous numbers of digital assets. Qumulo Core is enabling the next frontier of Life Sciences breakthroughs for genetic sequencing, genetic analyzers and drug discovery by intelligently managing and storing billions and trillions of files. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design optimized for the widest range of workloads and file sizes and is 100% programmable through a REST-API with built-in explorer. Qumulo Core’s real-time file system analytics allows Life Sciences companies to obtain real-time answers about their data footprint at incredible scale, whether it billions or trillions of files. With metadata built directly into the Qumulo Scalable File System (QSFS), storage administrators have visibility into their data and storage, usage patterns and which users or workloads are impacting performance and capacity.

  

Raid Inc. (Booth 252)
Product Name: ABILITY 2U 24 Bay PCIe EBOD
RAIDInc.com 

The computational demands on Bio IT have increased beyond recognition, straining the ability of technical computing to keep up. The Raid Ability 2u 24 Bay PCIe EBOB (Enterprise Bunch of Disks) solves this issue by accelerating data storage to meet the extreme speeds that are required by Genetic Analysis today.

This solution can deliver 17 million IOP/s. The RAID Ability PCIe EBOD features an array which houses NVME SSD disks with a DIRECT INTERFACE to connected servers, allowing advanced performance in tiered or primary storage applications.

  

Scigilian Software Inc. (Booth 334)
Product Name: Analyze 1.0
Scigilian.com/analyze 

Analyze, Scigilian's cloud-based assay data analysis system, provides assayists and investigators with the tools to consistently analyze their biological assay results according to their organization's business rules and industry best-practices. Through its Analysis Protocols, Analyze enables the definition of exactly how all tested samples will be analyzed.

Often, organizations develop approaches or standards for the analysis of assay results, such as those found in the NIH Assay Guidelines. Analyze supports these business rules in its Analysis Protocols guaranteeing that data analysis within or for an organization conforms to its standards.

Analyses are stored centrally in Analyze enabling multiple users to collaborate while still ensuring there is but one version of the truth. Organization can grant access to external partners, making all of their work accessible to the granting organization while limiting what partners are allowed to see and do.

The underlying analysis engine that Analyze uses was designed to support speedy calculation, and automatic recalculation, while not being limited to a maximum number of plates, samples, or data points. Analyze automatically scales with demand, such as when very large datasets or very many runs are analyzed, ensuring that users are not kept waiting.

Through its highly interactive and web-based user interface Analyze enables decision-making directly on charts and tables and doesn't force users to context-switch between views when masking data, constraining fits, or drilling-down through the results.

 

 

 

Sinequa  (Booth 348) 

Product Name: Sinequa ES V9 

Sinequa.com 

Enterprise Search & Analytics software platform for structured and unstructured information, serving to build business specific "Search Based Applications" for use cases like those mentioned above.

Strong analytical capability, including linguistic and semantic analysis of texts in 20 different languages (NLP). Product built on more than 25 years of research in linguistics and semantics.

Easy integration of Life Science specific dictionaries, ontologies, taxonomies, etc. Automatic extension of queries to synonyms, even to descriptions of molecular structures in .mol files

 

140 connectors to data sources ready to use speed up enterprise wide projects. Intrinsic handling of access control ensures that users can only see information which they have the proper credentials for.

Grid architecture for extreme scalability: rapid indexation and analytics of contents and real-time
answers to information requests.

 

 

Studylog Systems, Inc. (Booth 323) 

Product Name: Studylog v.4
Studylog.com 

Studylog Desktop and Web are designed to give researchers the power and flexibility critical to conduct and manage studies, connecting lab research stakeholders within an organization, across multiple sites, and even among collaborating researchers worldwide.

Built-In Data Relationships Inform the User and Assure Study Conduct and Data Acquisition Quality:
-Standardize nomenclature via customizable data collection dictionaries for clinical, mortality, necropsy and histological observations.
-Manage tissue sample collection, barcode label-generation and storage locations, etc
-Ability to view previous measurements (both absolute and relative to a definable event).
-Analysis and Reporting:
Standardized graphs, analyses and reports with user-specified settings.
Connectivity to external analysis programs, such as R, Graphpad Prism, etc., allows user-defined standardized algorithms to be run.
Modular report functionality enables users to easily customize report templates comprised of study design field, text, table and graph modules.

IT impact for installation and maintenance is minimal:
InstallShield installation
Propagating Configuration created by power user
Automatic version updating from internal network (under IT control)
Automatic backup, and redundant data storage

Studylog v4 Desktop Requirements:
Windows XP (SP3), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 8
Mac OS with Fusion (PC emulator)
Minimum 2GB RAM
Minimum dual core processor

Studylog Web Requirements:
IIS 7
Windows Server 2008 (R2)
Minimum 8GB RAM

Server Requirements:
Windows Server 2008 or R2
MS SQL 2008 or R2
Minimum 4GB RAM
Minimum 15 GB HDD space

Tamr, Inc. (Booth 460)
Product Name: Tamr for CDISC
Tamr.com/solution 

Tamr for CDISC provides a simple, scalable way to automatically convert, validate, and package clinical study data according to the latest CDISC standards. Tamr understands the systems’ input and output formats and controlled terminologies, and automatically converts clinical datasets using the proper definition files. When CDISC standards are updated, Tamr automatically updates any older submissions to match new requirements. Future transformations become easier as Tamr learns, enabling businesses to build in-house conversion and integration expertise. Tamr stays on top of changing standards, helping you build your clinical data warehouse over time.

Tamr includes workflows and technologies that (1) simplify data loading from a variety of data formats (it comes pre-loaded with a single, consistent version of SDTM and its associated codelists - just add your data); (2) automate data transformations & matching; (3) asks expert questions (when the system can’t automate steps) and promotes active learning (by feeding expert answers back into the system); and (4) perform validation of the integrated data set (according to rules pre-loaded by Tamr or supplied by you) & export (XPORT, CSV, XML or JSON formats). Tamr customers include Roche and Novartis.

 

tranSMART Foundation (Booth 113) 

Product Name: tranSMART Foundation Platform v1.2
tranSMARTFoundation.org 

The tranSMART Platform is an open source data and analysis platform built using grails. Source code and developer documentation is available through Github.

The platform uses either Oracle or postGres for data storage. The core architecture provides an N-tier base system broken into the presentation tier and the business tiers. The presentation layer is an AJAX javascript framework built upon GSP/JSP and JSON/XML. The Business Tier layer provides services for data processing and business logic evaluation. It includes a set of plugins and a suite of web services including an external RESTFUL API to enable two-way connection with external packages.

 

 

Univa Corporation (Booth 435) 

Product Name: Univa Grid Engine 8.2.1
Univa.com/products/grid-engine.php 

Univa Grid Engine software is a scalable workload management system that maximizes the business value of an organization’s computing resources. By using Univa Grid Engine software, enterprises and research organizations can deliver products and results faster and with lower overall costs.

With Univa Grid Engine, workloads are efficiently shared across machines in a data center to optimize the computing infrastructure. Our industry-leading workload optimization system makes it easy to create a cluster of thousands of machines by harnessing the combined computing power of desktops, servers, and clouds in a simple, easy-to-administer cluster environment.

Scheduling policies can be applied to all work submitted to the cluster, ensuring high-priority jobs are completed on time while simultaneously maintaining maximum utilization of all cluster machines. Our solution also monitors any resource or software license and schedules applications ensuring they are automatically matched to the appropriate licenses and machines.

 

Univa Grid Engine software accelerates the processing of massive amounts of data and sophisticated analyses to increase productivity in biomedical research and drug develop processes. Its ability to scale to large clusters and high throughput workloads, coupled with its ease of application integration, makes it the solution of choice for hundreds of companies in the Bio-IT World community including life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, and healthcare.