Abcam and Transinsight agree on collaboration in the area of semantic search technologies for...

Abcam, a bioscience company specialising in the supply of antibodies from a web-based catalogue and Transinsight, a specialist in semantic search technologies are pleased to announce a collaboration in the field of protein information quality control using bioinformatics workflows. /24-7PressRelease/ - Dresden, Saxony, Germany, August 15, 2008 - Accurately compiling all the required information around antibody targets is a challenging task, which has created the requirement for an automated intelligent computer-based solution to ensure top-quality information content about proteins. For example, an average human gene name has 6 or 7 synonyms and many more spelling variants. Handcurated databases do not cover all possible ways of naming and spelling genes and handcuration is a tedious, error prone and labour-intensive task.... [read full story]