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LabKey Software Joins Microsoft's BioIT Alliance

Sep 18, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Seattle-based firm LabKey Software, a maker of open-source software for researchers working on large-scale, collaborative projects, said today that it has joined the BioIT Alliance.
 
The Microsoft-led BioIT Alliance is a consortium of software and biotechnology companies that are working together to advance personalized medicine and drug development using the Microsoft platform.
 
Among LabKey’s current customers are the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, and the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention.

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