Date: 2013-06-27
Type of information: Collaboration agreement
Compound: integrated solution for rapid bacterial identification
Company: PathoGenetix (USA) Applied Maths (Belgium)
Therapeutic area: Infectious diseases
Type agreement: collaboration
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Details: * On June 27, 2013, PathoGenetix, developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial identification, and Applied Maths, a leader in bioinformatics and analytical solutions for public health and research laboratories, have signed a collaborative agreement to integrate the RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System with the BioNumerics™ software suite. The fully automated and integrated solution will confirm and identify pathogens in complex mixtures in just five hours, allow rapid sharing of outbreak information among public health and food safety laboratories, and enable comparison to strain data from other typing systems such as pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The end-to-end automated solution will integrate rapid pathogen strain typing with advanced data management and networking tools, and enable sharing and comparison of outbreak strain data among public health or food safety testing labs. The collaboration also will enable serotype and strain type information generated by the RESOLUTION System to be compared to data sets generated by other identification methods such as pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) or whole genome sequencing (WGS).
PathoGenetix’s RESOLUTION System is based on Genome Sequence Scanning™ (GSS™) technology initially developed to detect bio-threat pathogens in environmental samples. This genotyping technology isolates and analyzes microbial DNA directly from complex mixtures, without the need for a pure culture. Rapid throughput scanning and proprietary software generate genomic barcodes based on the underlying sequence, and compare them to an onboard database to provide molecular serotype and strain type information for all target bacteria present in the sample at detectable levels.
Applied Maths’ BioNumerics is a turnkey software suite for integrative biological data management and comparative analysis that includes data mining, clustering, identification and statistical applications. BioNumerics software is currently in use in thousands of public and private research sites and laboratories worldwide, and is the cornerstone for numerous national and international research projects and epidemiological surveillance networks.
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