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GeneGo, a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Berlex, Inc., a U.S. affiliate of Schering AG, Germany, for MetaCore. The license provides researchers at Berlex and its German parent company with use of the MetaCore platform for analysis of gene expression, proteomic, metabolic and other high-throughput data in multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, and in diagnostic applications. "We are very pleased to bring MetaCore into our research," said Hugh Salamon, senior computational biologist, Berlex. "It is essential to exploit curation of scientific findings given the large body of knowledge relevant to therapeutic research. GeneGo is providing us with an important view of current knowledge of mammalian signaling, metabolism, drugs and diseases through the MetaCore platform." "We are very pleased that researchers at Berlex Biosciences, the US research center for Berlex, will be using MetaCore and to have the company as a GeneGo customer," said Julie Bryant, Vice President of Business Development at GeneGo. "Berlex researchers will be among more than 140 unique accounts and thousands of users. Feedback from such partnerships help us enhance MetaCore as a versatile, multi-purpose data mining tool applicable in diverse life science projects.