As scientists have developed the tools and technologies that allow them explore the foundations of biological activity — genes, proteins and metabolites — they have discovered that these components almost never work alone. Genes and proteins interact with each other and with other molecules in structured and complex ways. Systems biology seeks to understand these complex interactions, as these are the keys to understanding health and disease.

GenoLogics has developed a common platform and information technology environment that can serve multiple sciences, labs and researchers. Lab and data management for systems biology is enabled by cross discipline analytics tools, provided by both GenoLogics and its technology partners, based on open systems and open standards.

Aggregating data across sciences will lead to accelerated discoveries from integrated analysis. While large allocations of funds are spent annually on instruments, reagents and salaries to produce this data, more consideration is needed to implement a common platform across geographically-dispersed labs and improve efficiencies from centralized data management.

Utilizing purposed modules for various omics disciplines within the systems biology environment provides individual researchers with a familiar interface for their science, lowering the barrier to adoption of an enterprise solution and facilitating integration of data in a consistent way across the organization. The GenoLogics OMIX platform and science-purposed modules for genomics, proteomics and others sciences facilitates this goal.

Consistent and standardized data management, from facility to facility and across sciences, will help discovery groups to develop effective enterprise data warehouses. These data warehouses will unleash the potential of cross-science analysis, providing larger data sets to be analyzed, better results for analytic mining and better decisions to be made more.

This solution exists today, from GenoLogics, and can offer numerous productivity efficiencies to bench scientists, IT personnel, lab managers and principal investigators. One of the key differentiators of GenoLogics’ systems biology platform is our cross-omics science approach. Most other software companies provide generic LIMS, or focus on providing application or point analysis solutions for a specific step of a given facilities workflow.

The GenoLogics OMIX platform acts like a hub in which data from various instruments, software or geographies can flow, to enable and automate machine-to-machine type processing, people intense processes, cross-omics inquiries and enable interaction between researchers for the benefit of better decision making.

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