Insilicos

Insilicos
Industry Software, Life science
Founded 2002
Founder(s) Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States
Products

Insilicos Proteomics Pipeline

InsilicosViewer
Website http://www.insilicos.com

Insilicos is a life science software company founded in 2002 by Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen. Insilicos develops scientific computing software to provide software for disease diagnoses.

Technology

Insilicos' key technologies includes pattern recognition techniques to interpret proteomics mass spectrometry data. Insilicos products include InsilicosViewer and Insilicos Proteomics Pipeline (IPP). These products support the mzXML, mzDATA and mzML file formats.[1] In 2007, Insilicos received a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to further develop software allowing for studies to be conducted more quickly.[2] The open-source software, developed in connection with the Institute for Systems Biology, has been referred to as the Trans Proteomic Pipeline.[3] IPP is commercial version of the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline

References

  1. ^ Pedrioli, Patrick G A (2004). "A Common Open Representation of Mass Spectrometry Data and its Application to Proteomics Research". Nature Biotechnology 22 (11): 1459–1466. doi:10.1038/nbt1031. PMID 15529173. http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n11/fig_tab/nbt1031_F4.html. 
  2. ^ John Cook (2007-08-30). "Insilicos Works with Amazon, ISB on Biotech Service". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/120910.asp. Retrieved 2008-03-05. 
  3. ^ "Insilicos Gets $1 Million Grant for Software Project". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 2007-08-30. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/329779_tbrfs31.html. Retrieved 2008-03-05.