BIOALMA NEWS

Primary U.S. Federal Agency for Conducting and Supporting Medical Research. to Use Text Mining Technology for Human Salivary Proteome Project

Madrid, Spain – Bioalma today announced that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has licensed AlmaKnowledgeServer 2 (AKS2) software, the company’s informatics system which contains powerful tools to search, analyze, and visualize all types of information extracted from biomedical literature. AKS2 is a subscription-based system, and is the technology that is the basis for Bioalma’s free biomedical search tool – novo|seek.

The Center for Information Technology (CIT) at the NIH has expanded its licenses of AKS2 by more than 25 percent to ensure that researchers involved in the human salivary proteome project can utilize the solution as the annotation platform for the project – a project with a long-term goal of supporting the discovery of saliva-based diagnostic tests. Saliva-based tests hope to provide new “non-invasive” diagnostic methods that can be performed for little cost in a doctor’s office or at a patient’s home.

“Being selected yet again by the NIH – the go-to resource for biomedical research in the US – is a proof point to the powerful capabilities behind our text mining technology – within both AKS2 and novo|seek,” said Ramon Alonso-Allende, director of marketing and business development, Bioalma. “Our overarching goal is to put the power of information into the hands of researchers, medical students, doctors, and librarians, and we continue to add functionality and expanded resources to our family of biomedical search tools to solve that ever-increasing problem of mining overwhelming amounts of scientific literature.”

Bioalma will be exhibiting novo|seek – a powerful alternative to traditional information retrieval systems aimed at a variety of audiences within the biomedical community – at the Bio International Convention this week at booth #1405/M06