Cupertino, CA, April 28, 2008 - NextBio today announced the next step in making Open Biology a reality: a free version of the NextBio life science search engine has been made available to the general public. Using NextBio, any researcher or clinician can search the world’s public life sciences data and literature - over 10,000 experiments, 16 million articles, and literally billions of data points. Moreover, users can import their own experimental data into the NextBio search engine, share it with the community, and collaborate with others as never before.

“The NextBio life science search engine presents a powerful and intuitive solution available for researchers and clinicians who wish to truly unlock the value of large-scale studies in the public domain,” stated Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., President of the Institute for Systems Biology. “NextBio is an entirely new and better way of doing scientific research.”

“With the public launch of the free version of our life science search engine, our goal is to make NextBio an invaluable resource for every researcher and clinician in the world,” said Saeid Akhtari, NextBio’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. “While we continue to grow our enterprise accounts with the world’s leading R&D companies and organizations who demand added data integration services, security and support, the free version of our product is the culmination of years of development and our vision of open collaboration in science.”

“The public launch of NextBio’s free search and collaboration tools is at the center of our vision of Open Biology,” stated Ilya Kupershmidt, co-founder and VP of Product Management at NextBio. “NextBio’s search engine provides a unique opportunity for the research community to collaborate through information sharing and to perform an important part of their biological work in silico. Our users can glean new insights into gene function, disease progression and compound effects, as well as into their own studies using the world’s quality public experiments done to date.”

With NextBio, researchers and clinicians can:

• Search in real-time over 1,200,000,000 scientific data points, tens of thousands of study results and millions of scientific articles
• Find topics of interest quickly with an intelligent semantic auto-complete search feature
• Make correlations across six species, enabling effortless exploration of animal models relative to human studies
• Search NextBio to validate or generate novel hypotheses prior to investing in new experiments
• Understand their own study results by correlating them with the world’s collective experimental data
• Create their own user profiles to more easily collaborate with scientists around the world

Videos explaining the NextBio life science search engine and how it works, as well as a demonstration of a search, are available for viewing at http://www.nextbio.com/b/corp/demo.nb.

NextBio Featured at Bio-IT World Conference

The NextBio life science search engine will be highlighted this week at the Bio-IT World Conference in Boston. In a presentation on Tuesday April 29 at 2:30 pm Eastern Time, Ilya Kupershmidt, NextBio co-founder and Vice President of Product Management, will describe the conceptual framework behind NextBio and present applications investigating diverse biological questions. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.nextbio.com/b/corp/events.nb.

Source: NextBio