InforSense launches powerful bioscience module

London-based InforSense, a leading provider of open discovery workflow informatics platforms, has launched InforSense 1.9: BioScience, a new application module for analysing genomics and proteomics data within the advanced InforSense Knowledge Discovery Environment (KDE) 1.9.

Offering direct integration between sequences, expression data and ontology-based knowledge management for bioinformatics research, InforSense 1.9: BioScience provides components for a wide range of analytical applications in genomics and proteomics study, including integrative gene expression analysis and high throughput gene and protein annotation.

This latest addition means researchers now have direct access to, and can easily integrate, expression data management and analysis, sequence analysis and annotation, ontologies and other commonly used bioinformatics functions through InforSense workflows. Moreover, BioScience functions can be seamlessly integrated with cheminformatics and TextSense text mining to create a platform to support informatics activities across the entire drug discovery process, the company says.

'This new BioScience module extends the capabilities of our core infrastructure to work with genomic and proteomic data,' said Jonathan Sheldon, chief scientific officer, life sciences at InforSense. 'Combined with our existing cheminformatics capabilities, InforSense 1.9 represents a powerful framework for cross-discipline research that is essential for enhanced drug discovery productivity.'