http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax provides computational solutions for better decision making and knowledge management in the life science industry. en-us Copyright Biomax Informatics AG http://www.biomax.com/graphics/biomax_logo_175px.png http://www.biomax.com/rss/BiomaxNews.xml 144 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Viscovery unveiled the latest major release of the Viscovery Software Suite, designed to help customers uncover high-value insights in complex data sets. Viscovery version 6.0 builds on unique, patented technology for explorative analysis and statistical modeling of complex data. Many of the new features emerged from the company’s successful expansion into the life sciences.

Viscovery version 6.0 is a full major release and is available immediately. Existing customers are already being upgraded. A free trial version is available at www.viscovery.net.

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:00:00 GMT news_20130515 http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php The European Project "STATegra" has officially commenced at the Prince Felipe Research Centre (CIPF) (Valencia, Spain), with Biomax Informatics as the lead provider partner for semantic integration and knowledge development technology, a key element of the project goals. The project will focus on developing complex statistical methods wrapped into usable tools to provide integrative analysis of data from entire biological molecular systems. For details, please refer to the News page on the Biomax website.

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:00:00 GMT news_20130110 http://www.biomax.com/company/jobs.php Biomax Informatics has multiple job offerings… For details, please refer to the Job page on the Biomax website.

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:00:00 GMT news_20130109 http://www.biomax.com/bioxm Biomax Informatics today announced the release of a new version of the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment, its flagship enterprise platform for semantic data integration for the life sciences. The new BioXM version 4.3 transparently handles numerical values with associated units. Importing, exporting, reporting, searching and filtering of physical quantities considers the units specified by the user and, automatically applying all implicit conversions required, always provides the correct results. The BioXM system supports virtually all SI units, derived SI units, the corresponding SI prefixes as well as non-SI units. Especially for data sets using mixed units, the new BioXM version will significantly improve efficiency and accuracy.

Support for physical quantities and additional new features and enhancements, e.g., of the BioXM graph viewer and the web services API of BioXM, are immediately available; existing customers are already being upgraded.

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20121130 http://www.biomax.com/company/jobs.php Biomax Informatics is hiring a Computational Biologist. For details, please refer to the Job page on the Biomax website.

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120826 http://www.biomax.com/bioxm Biomax Informatics today announced the release of a new version of the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment, Biomax's enterprise platform for semantic data integration. BioXM version 4.2 introduces point-and-click integration of external relational databases. Tables and views can easily be integrated to add database objects to the semantic network maintained by the BioXM system. In addition, BioXM version 4.2 introduces a significantly extended user model enabling configuration of highly user-specific work environments.

These features and numerous other enhancements are immediately available; existing customers are already being upgraded.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120806 http://www.sophicalliance.com/Food%20Security.php Thu, 23 Jul 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120723 http://www.biomax.com/projects/projects.php Participating in the European AirPROM project to unravel the complexity of airway diseases and improve personalized healthcare, Biomax has built the knowledge management infrastructure to facilitate the information flow within AirPROM. Using a systems biology approach, the AirPROM consortium aims to develop validated computational models to predict airway disease progression and responses to therapy and elucidate the relationships between clinical phenotype, genotype, airway structure and physiology.

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120718 http://www.sophicalliance.com/Scan-MarK.php Thu, 27 Jun 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120627 http://www.biomax.com/projects/synergy.php Within the last year Biomax Informatics has established the knowledge integration platform in a research project to develop a new generation of healthcare tools for predictive, personalized medicine. The Synergy-COPD project, funded by the European "Framework Programme 7", will generate a simulation environment and clinical decision support system enabling systems medicine. Though generally applicable, the tools created will be validated using data from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The project's goal is to improve patient care and healthcare outcomes, reduce errors and increase efficiency.

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120614 http://www.biomax.com/solutions/symposium.php Personalized medicine has developed to one of the main topics in healthcare in recent years. The idea of Personalized Medicine is tailoring all medical decisions and practices to the individual patient. Integrating the huge amounts of data that are produced due to the tremendous biotechnological development challenges current information technology but is a pre-requirement to progress in treating the particular patient and his/her specific disease more individually and thus more successfully. Knowledge management has gained increasing importance in leveraging - if not even enabling - the integrated view on various healthcare aspects when trying to conceive an overall picture of the individual patient and his individual disease.
This symposium is dedicated to the concepts and challenges of knowledge management as well as to the obvious need for data structuring and integration in personalized medicine. It draws an arch from state of the art knowledge management over the application of knowledge management methods in exemplary projects up to practical know-how sessions. The talks are mainly addressed to medical researchers and bioinformatics scientists related to systems medicine.
Biomax is proud to offer this symposium free of charge to every interested researcher.
For more information and for registration visit the Symposium pages on the Biomax website.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120327 http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php CIRO+, centre of expertise for chronic organ failure and Biomax Informatics announce the launch of the CIRO+ Data Center which is the first integrated patient centric knowledge management system for patient stratification and targeted therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It will help to better predict patient outcome and optimize therapy for this chronic lung disease.

See the Biomax website for the full press release.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120222 http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics announces a new cloud-based online sequence analysis service. Starting today, the PEDANT Cloud Service offers the proven accuracy of the Pedant-Pro Sequence Analysis Suite as a subscription service enabling researchers to easily load sequences and receive a complete genome analysis online. The service is available at http://www.biomax.com/cloud.

Building on the proven Pedant-Pro Sequence Analysis Suite and years of genome analysis experience, Biomax now offers the PEDANT Cloud Service to rapidly transform complex sequencing data into more meaningful, interpretable information. The analysis results are presented as uniform data sets, which can be easily explored, searched or exported for use in other research workflows. Intuitive online DNA and protein viewers provide a navigational context for browsing the data. All sequences and results are maintained in a private cloud environment to ensure privacy and security.

The PEDANT Cloud Service is available now for bacterial and fungal nucleotide sequences. Biomax offers analysis of further genomes and sequence types upon request.

Simply sign up, log in and upload your data using our secure channel. The PEDANT Cloud Service will complete the sequence analysis work for you.

See the Biomax website for the full press release.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT news_20120214 http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics announces a new major release of its enterprise platform, the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment. The BioXM system integrates information from different data sources to dynamically build semantic networks representing up-to-date knowledge, which can be mined and analyzed. BioXM version 4.0 introduces web-application functionality and numerous other enhancements for easier distribution to large end-user communities. This next-generation BioXM platform is the realization of Biomax's vision to provide an easy-to-use, cost-efficient, configurable knowledge management platform that builds upon current semantic concepts.

BioXM version 4.0 is available immediately; existing customers are already being upgraded.

See the Biomax website for the full press release.

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:00:00 GMT news_20110802 http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics today announced the expansion of its long-term licensing and services agreement with Royal DSM to include solutions for synthetic biology using Biomax's BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment. The BioXM system is a unique generic software platform for dynamic modeling, visualization and analysis of biological and biomedical networks. By enabling an agile process to develop new life science applications through easy configuration and customization, the BioXM system allows new solutions to be deployed quickly to large user communities. Leveraging the capabilities of the BioXM system in synthetic biology allows a purpose-oriented engineering approach.


"By now we have used the new BioXM system in several different areas," said Dr. Marco de Groot, Scientist Bioinformatics at DSM. "The system is outstanding in terms of flexibility and its ability to be tuned to our needs. Its solution-building approach is unprecedented: rolling-out a new application to hundreds of end-users takes only weeks. Most importantly, we are able to continuously adapt the system while staying in production, which greatly reduces cost."


Go to www.biomax.com for the full press release.


Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:00:00 GMT news_20110719 http://www.biomax.com/products/bioxm.php A new technical document published by the Biomax Support Team is available for helping users get started quickly with the BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment. The BioXM Quick Start covers the basic steps from starting with an empty BioXM installation, designing a data model and importing data, to creating a productive knowledge base and a personalized work environment using tailored views, smart folders and the BioXM web portal.

The BioXM Quick Start is available in both PDF and ebook format for iPad and other digital book readers.

More documentation can be found on the Biomax Support Web.

docs_20110610 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php The data mining specialist Viscovery successfully established itself in the Life Science sector in 2010. In positive synergy with its parent company, Biomax Informatics, they carried out projects in the food industry and in pharmaceutical and medical research. In these fields, Viscovery® Data Mining with SOMs (Self-Organizing Maps) helps researchers find potential biomarker candidates by analyzing and clustering clinical and genetic data.

Viscovery's participation as a partner in the international CANCERMOTISYS research project studying the specific effect of drugs against stomach cancer is already in its third year. In this project, Viscovery is examining, among other things, the relationship between the motility of cancer cells and gene expression data.

Biomax acquired the Viscovery data mining business from eudaptics gmbh in 2007 to complement the BioXM system with tools to identify and validate diagnostic biomarkers.
news_20110517 Tue, 17 May 2011 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/jobs.php Wir suchen zur Verstärkung unseres Teams zum nächstmöglichen Termin eine/n Mitarbeiter/in mit Hochschulabschluss im Bereich Lebenswissenschaften mit Erfahrung in der computergestützten Bearbeitung biologischer oder medizinischer Fragestellungen. Wünschenswert ist eine einschlägige akademische Ausbildung (Master oder Bachelor Molekularbiologie, Genetik, Medizin, Bioinformatik) und mehrjährige fachbezogene Berufserfahrung. Wir erwarten solide und breite Kenntnisse über Datentypen, Formate, Datenbanken und Datenanalysemethoden in der molekularen Biologie, Genetik oder einer klinischen Umgebung. Sie sollten über ein stark analytisches Denken verfügen, sowie die Fähigkeit besitzen sich schnell in neue Themengebiete einarbeiten zu können. Die Tätigkeit erfordert sehr gute Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift. Neben der fachlichen Qualifikation sind uns soziale Fähigkeiten sehr wichtig: Teamfähigkeit, Kreativität und sicheres Auftreten runden Ihr Profil ab.
In dieser Position werden Sie an Lösungsentwicklungen und kundenspezifischen Konfigurationen des Biomax Produktportfolios arbeiten. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Produktmanagement, unseren Software-Entwicklern und Consultants werden Sie Anwendungs-Lösungen für unsere Kunden und mit unseren Kunden erarbeiten und selbständig auf Basis unserer Software-Plattform BioXM™ konfigurieren, anpassen und weiterentwickeln. Wünschenswert sind Erfahrungen in statistischer Datenanalyse, Programmierungs/Skriptingkentnisse und Projektmanagement Erfahrung.
Wenn Sie Interesse an einer abwechslungsreichen, herausfordernden und verantwortungsvollen Tätigkeit haben, senden sie bitte Ihre vollständigen Bewerbungsunterlagen an: info@biomax.com.
jobs_20110302 Tue, 02 Mar 2011 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php If you sneeze while reading this, you are not alone. According to the European Federation of Allergy and Airway Diseases Patients Association (EFA), more than 80 million people in Europe suffer from some kind of allergic disease and that number is growing.
Biomax Informatics has joined the quest to determine why allergies have intensified over the years to become the 21st century’s global epidemic and announces its participation in the Mechanisms of the Development of Allergy (MeDALL) project, backed by European Union’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7). MeDALL aims to generate novel knowledge on the underlying causes and mechanisms of allergies from early childhood to young adulthood. The results of the project will help to improve the quality of life of people with allergies through early diagnosis, improved prevention strategies, and new cost-effective treatments for allergic disorders.
In the project, Biomax Informatics will provide the text-mining and knowledge management infrastructure for the MeDALL consortium of 23 institutions from academia and industry with experts in the fields of epidemiology, genetics, immunology, biology, animal models, biochemistry and systems biology. Biomax will use their BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment to support MeDALL’s innovative, integrative research strategy.
news_20110301 Mon, 01 Mar 2011 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics AG, a leading provider of knowledge management solutions for the life sciences, announces the new version 5.8 of the BioRS™ Integration and Retrieval System for retrieving and using results from biological and medical databases. The new version seeks to close the gap between data accumulation and the ability to use data to create knowledge and scientific innovation.
The new release extends the software’s proven functionality with the ability to create and use virtual databanks, better support for spreadsheets and improved indexing. Convenient tools for reference elements and extended querying options for the BioRS Search Tool have been added. In addition, functionality for reference navigation is available in the Java application programming interface (API).
Several of the changes in the new BioRS version also improve its performance as middle-ware for the BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment. In particular, massive retrieval operations have been added for result tables and downloading.
news_20101227 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics updates its Biomax Informatics updates its sequence analysis platform, the Pedant-Pro™ Sequence Analysis Suite.
The new Pedant-Pro version 3.3 offers numerous new features significantly improving functionality and ease of use for both users and administrators.
The relevant new features for the user include:
• Additional and improved methods for gene prediction and automatic annotation
• New overview tables for contigs, genes, proteins, pathways and BLAST results
• Improved DNA and Protein Viewers
• Improved search functionality
• Improved GUI and Command Line Interface data export functionality
• Additional access points for genome comparison
• New Pedant-Pro look and feel.

New important features for the Pedant-Pro administrator are:
• The removal of the conceptual distinction between primary workflow and secondary workflows. New method nodes can now be added directly to "the" workflow by exactly specifying the node dependencies.
• Update of the object relational mapping framework Hibernate to version 3.2. The whole database abstraction layer has been adopted to support this major release upgrade.
• The implementation of an additional adaptor to utilize compute grids. The DRMAA (Distributed Resource Management Application API) adaptor allows communicating with DRMAA conforming compute grids, e.g. Sun Grid Engine.
news_20091210 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Biomax Informatics updates its premier enterprise platform, the BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment. The new BioXM version 3.3 offers significantly enhanced visualization capabilities that simplify the configuration and use of context-dependent, one-click visualization scenarios.
Based on semantic search capabilities, BioXM graphs can be superimposed on-the-fly for displayed scientific entities with both context-dependent information and with globally available information. This allows, for example, the generation of a network of disease-related effects under certain environmental conditions and enrichment of graphical presentation with both condition-dependent, experimentally obtained evidence and literature-derived knowledge.
Information is dynamically presented for interpretation in the same graph. This information graphic can be stored and is updated automatically when new experimental evidence becomes available. Colorful new backdrops provide additional context information, for example, regarding biological compartments.
Among numerous other newly introduced or enhanced features, BioXM version 3.3 is compatible with a variety of office document formats and has been expanded to improve full-text search within imported files. Full support is now available for Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition, as well as the standard operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X. news_20090805 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2009_viscovery.pdf Viscovery Software GmbH relaunches corporate website to serve predictive analytics customers. This update increases the focus on advice and instruction for users of data mining solutions. news_20090630 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/events.php Come and meet us in Montreux (15-16 June 2009) at the <a href="http://www.pharmatechnology-summit.com/" target="_blank"> Pharmaceutical Technology IT Summit </a> where Biomax will attend as Sponsor and Exhibitor.
Dr. Klaus Heumann will give a talk about "BioXM - Next Generation Knowledge Management for the Life Science Industry". meet_20090609 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/events.php Come and meet us in Stockholm (29 June - 2 July 2009) at the <a href="http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2009" target="_blank"> ISMB/ECCB </a> where we will be presenting at booth 25.
Stop by our booth and see how to integrate, report and analyse clinical and experimental data from proprietary and public resources in a visual, object-oriented approach. We also invite you to discuss and learn from our use case poster "Knowledge management in a Systems Biology approach to translational medicine". meet_20090331 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/products/bioxm.php Biomax Informatics AG releases BioXM version 3.1, a minor update of the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment. The new version 3.1 adds a number of features improving functionality and ease of use for both end users and administrators:
• Simplified view configuration – BioXM now allows end users to easily customize administrator configured table views. The user can show or hide table view columns without affecting other users view configurations and keep his preferences for future user sessions.
• Configurable naming of graph objects – Instead of having to always use the primary object name, administrators can now configure a custom object-type specific caption for presentation in the graph viewer.
• Simplified graphical browsing and streamlined graphical network building – A number of workflow changes allow for faster network creation and modification as well as for easier graphical network browsing. news_20090219 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:00:00 GMT http://www.nature.com Analyze This! Nature (Print Issue) takes note of the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment in the latest scientific software Product Focus. Read more about <a href="http://www.biomax.com/products/bioxm.php" target="_blank"> BioXM</a>. docs_20081009 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/projects/biobridge.php BioBridge is a consortium dedicated to use the omics revolution data explosion to improve the mechanistic understanding of of complex chronic disorders. To this end BioBridge not only generates clinical and experimental data, but also a Systems Biology infrastructure, which provides a tool for data integration and simultaneous analysis of different levels of information. Biomax is a central partner for BioBridge and provides the data integration and knowledge management infrastructure. news_20081007 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/products/bioxm.php A new article published in Bioinformatics describes how the Biomax BioXM Knowledge Management Environment facilitated the identification of sets of proteins that are predictive of leukemia-cell response to DNA damage. Have a look at the paper in <a href="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btn489?ijkey=zizzNljQKsmgeQS&keytype=re" target="_blank"> Bioinformatics </a>. docs_20080924 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2008_BioXM3.pdf Biomax Informatics today announced the new release of a major upgrade of its flagship product BioXM Knowledge Management Environment. The BioXM system integrates information from different data sources to dynamically build semantic networks representing up-to-date knowledge, which can then be mined and analyzed. BioXM version 3.0 now introduces an all-new set of tools specifically developed for scientific interpretation of semantic networks such as biological pathways or biomedical relationship graphs. The BioXM system allows complex scientific questions to be answered dynamically and graphically with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Using a unique, easy-to-use approach of query-based “information layers”, different user-configurable scientific scenarios can be explored with a single click. A newly introduced high-performance analysis API seamlessly integrates favorite tools such as often-used R and BioConductor scripts or other third-party applications. news_20080904 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2008_mdi_ctd.pdf Biomax Informatics and the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDI) today announced that Biomax will integrate MDI's Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) into the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment. CTD is a valuable, manually curated resource, which advances understanding the effects of environmental chemicals on human health. Biomax will offer CTD as a free content resource to all users of Biomax's enterprise platform for semantic data integration, the BioXM system. news_20080729 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/news.php Read the <a href="http://www.bioinform.com/issues/12_27/webreprints/148355-1.html" target="_blank">original story</a> by Vivien Marx in BioInform. news_20080707 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2008_sophic_nci.pdf Today, Sophic announced the launch of a 12-month, $1.3M project funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), to complete the first comprehensive index of 6,610 cancer-related genes found in Medline abstracts, with manually annotated gene-disease and gene-compound relationships. Over the past four years, Sophic has teamed with NCI and Biomax Informatics AG in Munich, Germany, to build this highly curated, standardized, computable cancer knowledge base. When complete, the cancer community will have access to a comprehensive compendium of cancer information. The 4,658 cancer genes annotated in previous phases of this project are already publically available at the NCI website at <a href="http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/NCICB/projects/cgdcp" target="_blank">http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/NCICB/projects/cgdcp. news_20080623 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2008_oncotyrol_e.pdf Biomax Informatics AG announces today that it has been selected as a consortium partner in the OncoTyrol project Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, an Austrian COMET-program, which supports building up centers that are based on a top-level research program jointly formulated by science and industry. This €28 million initiative focuses on translating genomic, proteomic and metabolomic research into innovative, individualized and cost-effective approaches for cancer diagnosis and treatment. It aims to achieve three primary goals: (1) to characterize the paradigm malignancies chronic myeloid and lymphocytic leukemia, breast and prostate cancer at the molecular level (2) to identify, verify and validate biomarkers for prediction of individual cancer risk, treatment response and outcome, and (3) to develop tailored therapies for cancer patients or cohorts that are most likely to benefit. news_20080422 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2007_biors_bi_e.pdf Biomax Informatics AG announced today that Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH & Co. KG has licensed the BioRS™ Integration and Retrieval System. Boehringer Ingelheim plans to use the BioRS system as a data integration platform providing unified access to public and proprietary data sources in its global pharmaceutical R&D environment. news_20071009 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.biomax.com/company/pressrel/2007_biors_seqsear_e.pdf Biomax releases today a new module for the BioRS™ Integration and Retrieval System, an application providing simultaneous searches in multiple biological and biomedical databases. The new module provides standard sequence similarity search and multiple alignment tools for querying nucleotide and protein sequences. With this module, the BioRS query form allows text fields to be searched while simultaneously using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) similarity and pattern searches with a sequence field. The integrated text and similarity search allows fast and specific results focusing on a topical area. Search results provide access to sequences in different formats as well as pair-wise and multiple sequence alignments. news_20071002 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMT