Automated 2D gel analysis with BioNumerics Version 4.6

 

Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, August 18, 2006 – Applied Maths BVBA today announces the release of Version 4.60 of its premium software suite BioNumerics. The BioNumerics software provides a universal platform for databasing and analysis of 1D patterns, 2D gels, phenotype arrays, and DNA/protein sequences. The software provides powerful databasing, integrated networking and a wide range of data mining, clustering, identification, and statistical applications. BioNumerics is designed for lab-wide databasing and analysis of biodata in laboratories of any size and is in use in thousands of research sites worldwide. In addition, BioNumerics and its server application 'BioNumerics Server' are the cornerstones for numerous national and international research projects and epidemiological surveillance networks. PulseNet, a worldwide surveillance network for foodborne bacterial pathogens is by far the biggest achievement with BioNumerics, connecting many hundreds of public health labs in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

In the present upgrade, Applied Maths has put significant efforts in new and powerful tools for its 2D gel analysis module. Besides the addition of a number of features to facilitate manual editing of spots, matches and links, a new Plugin tool has been developed that allows fully automated processing of workflows to be set up for different experimental procedures. These include the analysis of repeat gels that are combined into averages with statistical error, and the analysis of multiplex gels such as DIGE experiments. All 2D gel processing tools are supplied as script functions in BioNumerics’ powerful script language, which is an interesting feature that makes BioNumerics 2D unique compared to any other software for 2D gel analysis. This makes it possible and easy to develop custom scripts for any specific experimental setup, and to update the software’s functionality according to new emerging techniques in a flexible way.

Besides the major innovations in the 2D gel analysis module, BioNumerics version 4.6 offers a number of more specific improvements and additions, which are listed per module in the "New Features" documentation sheet.

 

 

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Applied Maths develops cutting-edge software for the biosciences and offers a uniquely complete portfolio of Bioinformatics applications. The cornerstone for Applied Maths' success is BioNumerics, a software suite for integrated analysis of biodata that has grown into a universal platform for bio-databasing and analysis and is in use in thousands of research and diagnostics settings worldwide. The unique strength of Applied Maths lies in the non-obvious combination of bio(techno)logical and mathematical know-how. For more information, visit www.applied-maths.com.

 

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