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X-Mine Licenses Informatics to Isis

Aug 06, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6 - X-Mine has licensed its biological knowledge database and gene expression analysis system to Isis Pharmaceuticals, the companies said today.

 

Isis will use X-Mine's Opus and X-Miner tools to mine phenotype and expression information from its own databases, John McNeil, Isisvice president of informatics, said in a statement.

 

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

 

X-Mine is headquartered in Brisbane, Calif.

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