Manufacturing

Linguamatics joins BioIT Alliance

12 June 2008

Enterprise text mining specialist Linguamatics has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, an association of life science organisations and informatics companies focused on enhancing collaboration to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development.

“As the amount of textual information impacting drug discovery and development programmes grows exponentially each year, the ability to extract and share decision-relevant knowledge is crucial to streamline the process and raise productivity,” said Roger Hale, COO and co-founder of Linguamatics. “Linguamatics is delighted to be part of Microsoft’s BioIT Alliance. As a leader in knowledge discovery from text, we look forward to working with other alliance members to explore new ways in which the immense value of text mining can be exploited across complex, multidisciplinary organisations like pharmaceutical companies.”

“We are very pleased to welcome Linguamatics to the BioIT Alliance,” said Rudy Potenzone, worldwide industry technology strategist for pharmaceuticals at Microsoft and BioIT Alliance coordinator. “Its commitment to innovation coupled with world-class experience and expertise in discovering and extracting relevant facts and relationships from text across the enterprise complements the capabilities of other alliance members.”