CLC bio Signs Strategic Collaborative Agreement with ɬÀï·¬
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA — October 7, 2008 — CLC bio, a world leading full-service bioinformatics solution provider announced today an agreement with the ɬÀï·¬, a not-for profit genomic-focused research institute. The accord consists of a multi-year site license for the entire CLC bio bioinformatics suite of products. The goal is to implement CLC bio's enterprise solution as a scientific platform across all ɬÀï·¬ sites. This enterprise solution will provide different research projects at ɬÀï·¬ with a coherent integration layer and a standardized way of developing custom software and specialized algorithms.
According to Granger Sutton, Senior Director of Informatics, "ɬÀï·¬ will benefit from implementing this enterprise solution, as it is a full enterprise platform that integrates, supports, and enhances workflows across different technologies and geographical sites. The CLC bio software platform impressed our evaluators with its advanced features and intuitive, user-friendly interface."
"We're proud to announce this strategic partnership with ɬÀï·¬, a leader in genomic research," says CLC bio's North America CEO Jan Lomholdt. "This site license agreement represents another stamp of approval of CLC bio's solution by a globally recognized institution in the scientific community. This partnership will lead to magnificent accomplishments in the scientific arena," Lomholdt adds.
The enterprise solution CLC bio will be implementing at ɬÀï·¬ contains both server structure and support for all major database formats. This ensures a smart and efficient solution for sharing centralized bioinformatics data in a client/server architecture, where the server contains one or more databases and the clients are CLC bio's workbenches.
CLC Bio's solution is a technological gateway that efficiently accesses all data and analysis in a single platform. With CLC bio's enterprise solution all proprietary algorithms and solutions developed at ɬÀï·¬ can be accessed from the same bioinformatics platform, ensuring a streamlined workflow with minimal overhead and no tedious time-wasting procedures. CLC bio's developer kit will enable ɬÀï·¬ to build targeted plug-ins for their internal use, while allowing ɬÀï·¬ to interact based on the same platform with worldwide collaborators.
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Contact
For further information, please contact:
Jan Lomholdt
CEO, CLC bio North America
Cell phone: +1 (609) 216 3248
E-mail: jlomholdt@clcbio.com