-- eClinical Technologies
Medidata Designer by Medidata Solutions
-- Information Technology Infrastructure
X-Series clustered storage systems by Isilon
-- Life Science Information Platforms
Sentient Suite of software by IO Informatics
-- Life Science Information Applications
I2E 3.0 by Linguamatics
Best of Show Award Winners
Medidata Designer is a hosted enterprise internet application based on J2EE
technology for transport and persistence and a hybrid between Java and
DotNET components on the Desktop. The primary user interface is Microsoft
Word, heavily customized and controlled by metadata-driven automation
components. Across the wire synchronization of compressed business objects
is accomplished with RMI over SSL for security and performance. The hosted
persistence tier consists of EJB technology running in BEA's weblogic
server and a robust Oracle implementation. XML plays a very large role
both in managing protocol content and configuring behavior at all levels of
the application and managing the interactions of multiple dependent data
models.
By combining Isilon's OneFS® operating system software with the latest
advances in industry-standard hardware, Isilon delivers modular,
pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class clustered storage systems that deliver
unprecedented storage scalability and performance, and dramatically reduce
the cost and complexity of managing storage growth -- empowering
enterprises to achieve unprecedented levels of innovation and business
agility. Isilon's X-Series clustered storage systems deliver the industry's
first and only storage system to scale to greater than 1.6 Petabytes of
capacity and provide performance of 10 Gigabytes per second in a single
file system and single volume -- achieving 100X the scalability and 20X the
performance of traditional SAN and NAS storage systems.
Knowledge Explorer, part of IO Informatics' Sentient Suite, is most
effected by working group and semantic additions. It leverages the latest
semantic web technologies to integrate, model, visualize and explore data,
revealing networks and novel relationships in complex data sets from one or
multiple sources -- greatly aiding in tasks such as biomarker discovery and
characterization. Results from database queries, formal ontologies and data
in semantic formats can be imported and merged to dynamically build
knowledge. Core enhancements include the ability to utilize multiple
standards (RDF, N3, OWL, OBO) in combination, connecting directly via URIs,
and the use of thesauri for classes and relationships on data import and
merging.
Linguamatic's I2E 3.0 provides accessible text mining, enabling research
and business decision-makers to rapidly uncover relevant insights by
extracting key facts and relationships from document collections.
Linguamatics' customers use I2E to inform their decisions and enhance
productivity in applications ranging from systems biology, biomarker
detection and safety in pharmaceutical R&D to key opinion leader, sentiment
and competitive analysis for business intelligence. I2E 3.0 enables users
to find answers faster through the application of leading edge NLP-based
technology. Users can define and execute queries on a wide range of data
sources, using plug-in domain knowledge to increase accuracy and relevance
of results. Results are delivered in a structured form as assertions,
relationships and insights with direct access to supporting evidence,
rather than lists of documents.
Best of Show Award winners received honorary signage, an awards logo, and
an engraved award. They also will be featured on the Bio-IT World website
with additional coverage in an upcoming issue of the magazine. For
complete coverage of the awards visit www.bio-itworld.com.
About Bio-IT World
Bio-IT World (www.bio-itworld.com), the flagship publication of Cambridge
Healthtech Institute (CHI), is the leading source of news on technology and
strategic innovation in drug discovery, development, and clinical trials.
Bio-IT World explores the tools and results of predictive biology as the
industry adapts to the new world of personalized medicine. Bio-IT World has
won 34 national and regional awards, more than any other magazine covering
the life sciences industry.
About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com) is
the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business
experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and niche service
provider organizations. CHI's integrated life science portfolio of
products and services includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences,
Pharmaceutical Strategy Series, Barnett International, Insight Pharma
Reports, Marketing Services, Meeting Planners, and Cambridge Healthtech
Media Group, which includes numerous eNewsletters, Bio-IT World magazine,
as well as Lead Generation Programs.
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