Strand Appoints UBI as Resellers in Canada

to tackle the automated genomic and literature annotation challenge.

Bangalore, India (PRWEB) November 12, 2003 -- Bangalore, - Strand Genomics, a Bangalore-based life sciences informatics company announced today that it has entered into a distributor agreement with UBI, Canada for its product Acuris, a tool to automate gene and protein annotation and literature curation.

Acuris is an enterprise-wide tool for the automated annotation and management of gene-related data. Acuris gathers, parses, persists and presents gene-related public information and curated literature from virtually any public or private source in order to manage collaborative discovery processes.

According to Lindsay Moir, President of UBI, Imagine, a researcher or company spending months if not years on an experimental track, only to find that somebody else in the world had already done that experiment, wrote the paper, and patented the methods. Acuris provides researchers an automated information gathering technology so they can invest their time doing leading edge research and thus avoid these types of unfortunate circumstances."

Acuris has increased customer research productivity multifold, resulting in significant cost savings", said Todd Laird, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Strand Genomics. UBI is the leading distributor in Canada for bioinformatics and our relationship will deliver real value to the research community there".

About Strand Genomics Pvt Ltd

Strand Genomics is a life sciences informatics company focused on software for drug discovery and development. Strand has leveraged its core strengths in data mining and analysis, knowledge management and workflow processes to develop its products Avadis for data analysis and visualization and Acuris for automated curation, annotation and collaboration. Strand is based in Bangalore, India and has a marketing office in California. For more information on Strand, visit the companys website at www.strandgenomics.com.

About UBI

Established in 2001, UBI is the only Canadian company that specializes in the distribution of bioinformatics software. UBI focuses on addressing its customers needs and where appropriate provides training, integration and consulting services. As UBI builds its relationships with its suppliers and customers, UBI looks for collaborative development opportunities to build high value software products that provide simple, elegant solutions to meet its customers bioinformatics needs. Additional information can be found at our website at http://www.ubi.ca
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