“Semantic integration” may sound like just another marketing catchphrase to bioinformatics veterans who’ve heard it all before, but Synquiry Technologies of Belmont, Mass., said its I-Synthsizer semantic integration infrastructure platform is far from vaporware.

“We’ve shown the system to a number of people at major life science organizations and they said, ‘you’ve solved the holy grail,’” said Alan Bingham, director of sales and marketing for Synquiry.