INDUSTRY

InforSense Limited and The BioTeam, Inc. today announced a partnership to integrate their products, and that the BioTeam has joined the InforSense Open Workflow Partner Network as a Certified Solutions Provider. The companies will work to integrate the BioTeam's informatics clustering kit, iNquiry, with InforSense's workflow-based integrative analytics environment, InforSense KDE, to provide the world's first high performance grid computing environment for bioinformatics study in life science industrial and research organizations. "The BioTeam has earned an impressive reputation for working with Life Sciences and Healthcare organizations to customize high performance bioinformatics solutions that empower in-silico biology research on scalable infrastructures," said Prof Yike Guo, CEO & Founder, InforSense Limited. "We look forward to working with them to meet our mutual customers' needs." "A major challenge within the life science community is enabling collaborative access to various and disparate information sources as well as computation services, and composing them in a flexible way. The lack of appropriate tools to best utilize the information and services available hinders internal collaboration, the capture and dissemination of best practices and overall productivity organization-wide," said Michael Athanas, Ph.D., Founding Partner of the BioTeam. "InforSense and the BioTeam's synergistic technologies, together with customized, domain specific services will help our customers solve these problems and accelerate their research and business processes using the state of the art technology in Grid computing."