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IBM, Agilent Team to Build Bioinformatics System

Aug 21, 2002

NEW YORK, Aug. 21 - IBM and Agilent technologies today said they will work together to create an informatics system designed to help accelerate drug discovery and development.

 

The companies will combine IBM's DiscoveryLink data integration system and the new Agilent Synapsia Informatics Workbench software suite.

 

It is hoped that the collaboration will enable researchers to access queries "against a broad range" of biological and chemical data from disparate sources in a variety of formats.

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