January 16th, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"GeneBio's Phenyx Tapped by Chinese State Key Laboratory of
Proteomics"
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Geneva, Switzerland and Beijing, China - January 16, 2008 - Geneva
Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics
today announced an agreement that sees GeneBio's Phenyx protein identification
platform installed on the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics' High
Performance Computing Cluster (32 nodes).
The Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, under the direction of Professor
Fuchu He, co-chair of the Human Proteome Organisation's Human Liver Proteome
Project (HLPP), is a very prominent actor in the Chinese proteomics effort and
also a very active partner of the HUPO HLPP. This license agreement is a further
link between GeneBio and numerous HUPO projects, amongst which are the
Proteomics Standards Initiative and the HUPO Brain Proteome Project (where
Phenyx is installed on the 128 CPU PAULA cluster).
This agreement, together with many others that GeneBio has communicated in the
previous several months, shows clearly that Phenyx is becoming a key element to
any high throughput proteomics project that allows life scientists, thanks
notably to its robust algorithm, to produce very reliable results.
Developed in collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB),
Phenyx is GeneBio's renowned software platform for the identification and
characterization of proteins and peptides from mass spectrometry data,
specifically designed to meet the concurrent demands of high-throughput MS data
analysis and dynamic results assessment while offering a flexible user
experience and an adaptable architecture to help instill confidence in results
assessment. (http://phenyx.vital-it.ch/pwi)
"We are very pleased to be working with GeneBio and the SIB and believe Phenyx
to be the right platform for our cluster," said Professor Yunping Zhu of the
Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics. "Our laboratory is keen to provide
the best results possible to our community, and for this it was obvious that the
addition of Phenyx's capabilities was mandatory. The quality of the
identification results together with the suite of features the software
provides, amongst which features the possibility to compare results from all
major search engines, were very important factors in our decision."
"We are very excited about this agreement with the Chinese State Key Laboratory
of Proteomics, a renowned laboratory that gives further recognition to Phenyx's
excellence and innovations," said Nasri Nahas, CEO of GeneBio. "In light of our
work with other HUPO projects, we are happy to be playing a part in furthering
the interests of HUPO throughout the world, a witness to GeneBio's continuous
endeavour to serve the scientific community as widely as possible. As a
commercial organization, we take great pride in this initial major Chinese
agreement, which will undoubtedly open the door to many others both in Asia in
general and in China particularly."
About GeneBio
Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA is a leading bioinformatics company providing
the life science community with world-class proteomics software that bridges the
gap between information gathering and knowledge generation. Established in 1997,
we focus our expertise on protein identification and characterization as well as
proteome imaging, offering clients and partners a high degree of specialization
essential to proteomics research. Close ties to academic peers and a thorough
network of distribution and strategic partners give us both unfettered access to
scientific excellence and recognized market presence so that we may best serve
the scientific community. For more information about GeneBio, please visit:
www.genebio.com.
About the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics
The Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics focuses on the basic research and
application of proteomics. It is the only state key laboratory in the field of
proteomics in China. Its target is to be an international heavyweight in
proteomics for investigation, innovation, education and services. The research
directions include the proteome and functional network of key tissue/organ of
human, proteomics study on key diseases, systems biology based on proteomics,
and novel techniques of proteomics. The state-of-the-art high-throughput
platforms, including protein expression profiling, protein modification
profiling, protein interaction network, protein localization, antibody
engineering, bioinformatics, functional proteomics, functional genomics, novel
proteomics technology and protein engineering have been established and
developed.
Chinese State Key Laboratory of Proteomics contact:
Prof. Yunping Zhu
zhuyp@hupo.org.cn
Tel. +86.10.80705225
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