Ariadne Expands Presence in South-East Asia - Genomax Technologies to Distribute Ariadne Software in the Region

Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced that is has signed a distributor agreement with Genomax Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) to represent Ariadne products in South-East Asia. Genomax will be distributing and supporting Ariadne pathway analysis software to life scientists in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Rockville, Md. (PRWEB) October 19, 2006 -- Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced that it has signed a distributor agreement with Genomax Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) to represent Ariadne products in South-East Asia. Genomax will be distributing and supporting Ariadne pathway analysis software to life scientists in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

“We are glad that Genomax has joined Ariadne sales team”, said John Clouston, Sales Manager at Ariadne. “Genomax is a key supplier for the life science research in South-East Asia, specifically focused on the areas of genomics, proteomics, molecular and cell biology, and we expect this relationship to be long and prosperous”.

Adriane Pathway Studio software allows scientists to go the next step in their high throughput data analysis, and actually get to the biological meaning underlying the experimental results. Pathway Studio helps to easily retrieve pathways affected during an experiment, as well as find common targets and regulators for groups of genes of interest.

“We are glad to add Ariadne Pathway Studio to our array of data analysis tools”, said Lin Sheng Wong, Sales & Marketing Manager at Genomax. “Over the last couple of years we have been receiving inquiries for this kind of software, and now we are offering our customers a complete solution for their microarray and proteomics data analysis.”

Ariadne Pathway Studio enables life scientists to identify relationships among proteins, small molecules, cell processes and treatments, and extract relevant biological interactions from scientific literature on the fly. With the resident ResNet database of over 1,000,000 interactions extracted from PubMed and approximately 1000 predefined pathways, researchers can easily reconstruct signaling and regulatory networks from their microarray and proteomics data, identify biomarkers, and model drug responses.

About Ariadne

Ariadne (www.ariadnegenomics.com) develops systems biology software for life science research. Products include Pathway Studio® (formerly PathwayAssist), leading pathway analysis software, for the research of cellular regulation and drug response modeling. Ariadne software is powered by MedScan™, a mature information extraction technology based on domain-specific natural language processing (NLP), and comes with a ResNet family of molecular network databases, both automatically generated and manually curated.

About Genomax

Genomax Technologies Pte Ltd (http://www.genomax.com.sg/) is founded in 2003 by a team of enterprising professional with years of experience in life science research products. The company provides the life science research communities and medical institutions in Singapore and beyond with innovative products and services, along with excellent technical support, friendly customer service and fast delivery.

###