Insilicos Awarded Grant to Improve Bioinformatics Software
Seattle, 2 August 2010 - Insilicos announced today that the company has won a Federal stimulus grant to improve the user interface of a popular open-source system for analyzing biological data.
The grant is for enhancements to the Trans-proteomic Pipeline (TPP), a software system developed at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle. Insilicos and the ISB have collaborated for several years on improvements to the TPP software. For this grant, Insilicos will add security and data sharing features to the TPP to enable collaborators to more easily share experimental data.
Insilicos received the grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant was made as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
Insilicos LLC is a biomarker discovery and diagnostic development company, concentrating on cardiovascular disease.
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