BIOBASE Releases a New Range of Products for Plant Researchers
BKL Plant and ExPlain Plant offer rich, high quality plant focused
content and integrated analysis tools.
WOLFENBUTTEL, Germany & BEVERLY, Mass. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) July 29, 2008 --
BIOBASE today announced their entry into the agricultural market with
the release of their latest products designed specifically for plant
researchers. The “green”
versions of their industry leading BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) and
ExPlain Analysis Platform can assist investigators studying crop
optimization, disease resistance, stress tolerance and other important
areas of plant biotechnology research.
The BKL Plant offers Gene Ontology (GO) assignments, plant specific
controlled vocabulary assignments for gene expression and phenotype
attributes as well as signal transduction and metabolic pathway data.
BKL Plant can also be integrated with ExPlain Plant for biological
interpretation of large-scale plant data, including gene expression,
proteomics and ChIP-chip data.
As part of the release, BIOBASE has signed global agricultural giant
Syngenta Biotechnology Inc. (NYSE: SYT) as the first customer for
their BKL Plant and ExPlain Plant offerings. “We
are extremely pleased to partner with Syngenta for our plant focused
products. Our collaborative relationship with this industry leader with
a wide range of research goals is indicative of the overall value our
tools and expertise can offer plant researchers worldwide.”
said Dr. Muthu Meyyappan, VP of Sales and Marketing for BIOBASE.
About BIOBASE GmbH
BIOBASE, based in Wolfenbüttel (Germany) with
offices worldwide is a leading global provider of expertly-curated
biological databases, sophisticated software tools and customized
discovery services. Our BIOBASE Knowledge Library™
includes the TRANSFAC®,
TRANSPATH®, YPDTM
and HumanPSDTM databases. Our systems
biology analysis platform ExPlain™ offers
novel gene expression analysis critical to discovery research in mammals
and plants. BIOBASE also provides the third party databases BRENDA®
and HGMD®. Our
customers are leading global pharmaceutical, biotech and agricultural
companies as well as many top academic and research institutions. For
more information, please visit us at www.biobase-international.com.
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