GelCompar II version 6.1 released

Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, May 28, 2010 – Applied Maths NV today announces the release of version 6.1 of its pattern analysis software GelCompar II. The GelCompar II software provides a powerful platform for databasing and analysis of all kinds of 1D patterns, including electrophoresis fingerprints, MALDI and SELDI profiles, gas chromatography, HPLC, and  spectrophotometry patterns and any other type of densitometric records. The software provides powerful databasing, integrated networking and a wide range of data mining, clustering, identification, and statistical applications. Being the oldest software developed at Applied Maths and the start of the company’s current success, GelCompar II is referenced in numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers. GelCompar II is designed for local and lab-wide databasing and analysis of biodata in laboratories of any size and is in use in thousands of public and private research sites worldwide.

The current upgrade of GelCompar II has been developed in parallel with version 6.1 of Applied Maths’ flagship software BioNumerics and contains the same improvements and extensions in terms of database management and user interface. Besides these general features, GelCompar II version 6.1 offers greater capacity in terms of fingerprint resolution, database fields and other specifications and offers a new plugin application: the Diversilab plugin. This plugin imports and analyzes patterns generated using the Diversilab™ system from bioMérieux (www.biomerieux.com). GelCompar II stores the patterns as fingerprints in a database and provides smart on-the-fly normalization algorithms for automatically aligning the Diversilab patterns within a comparison.

About Applied Maths

Applied Maths, a bioinformatics company, was set up in 1992 and incorporated in 1994. Since then, it has gained global recognition with its software GelCompar for the analysis of electrophoresis patterns. The company has acquired a unique market position with BioNumerics, a software suite for integrated databasing and the analysis of all kinds of biodata. BioNumerics has developed into a multi-faceted platform combining databasing and analysis technologies, with numerous applications in research and diagnostics, including in bacterial and viral epidemiology and profiling, plant improvement, human genetics and biotechnology.

Applied Maths combines extensive expertise in bioinformatics and unique mathematical know-how to develop the most powerful and fastest algorithms for pattern recognition and matching, data mining, screening and clustering. In so doing, the company fulfils a critical requirement in the bioinformatics industry for obtaining and analysing greater and more complex data sets. The impact of Applied Maths' software is evidenced by referrals in thousands of scientific publications and an impressive portfolio of customers in the academic, industrial, clinical and public sectors in more that 90 countries throughout the world. The BioNumerics software platform is used in many prestigious international projects and networks.

Applied Maths has units in Sint-Martens-Latem (Belgium) (head office) and Austin (USA). For further information, please visit the company's website: www.applied-maths.com.