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Somerville, (OBBeC) - TIBCO Software together with INTEGROMICS, a provider of software solutions for data management and data analysis in genomics, proteomics and drug discovery, have announced a solution for genomics research that, according to the announcement, provides researchers and scientists with a direct, interactive, visual approach to data analysis that rapidly reveals insights and unexpected relationships in genomics data.

Genomics technologies - used by pharmaceutical R&D departments to understand disease biology and drug response in order to develop new and better drugs -- are now used across the entire drug development process to better understand disease biology, mechanisms of drug action, mechanisms of toxicity, and individuals and their response to a drug.

Genomics-based biomarkers are dramatically impacting drug development by providing more precise diagnoses of disease states and drug response in individual patients. The software used to analyze and explore genomic data had not kept pace with the advancing genomics research.

As per the announcement, the companies have joined forces to address the needs of modern genomics research in areas including biomarker research, translational medicine, and systems biology by introducing INTEGROMICS Biomarker Discovery for TIBCO Spotfire.

The new solution enables pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research groups to quickly find and categorize complex patterns, outlines the report. Moreover, with interactive analysis and high-impact visualization capabilities, researchers and scientists can examine the expression and annotation dimensions of their data and perform a variety of numerical analyses. Pharmaceutical companies can also use Spotfire as a flexible analytics platform to allow them to combine and analyze new types of data in order to more quickly pursue their hypotheses and research strategies.

"Having developed microarray analytics for the last five years, we are confident that this combined solution will provide researchers with a powerful environment to accelerate discovery and provide accurate, up-to-date analytics from a single reliable source,” said Alberto Pasqual, vice president of R & D, INTEGROMICS. “With this set of tools, life science researchers can ask and answer new questions and create an advanced problem solving environment.”