This hit the press this week and demonstrates how Shire Pharmaceuticals have leveraged the Quantix Cloud. They have been able to use our technology to convert a client/server app (IDBS E-Workbook) into a flexible SaaS model.

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Shire Adds Hosted Version of IDBS' E-WorkBook to
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IDBS said this week that biopharmaceutical firm Shire will use Printer-friendly Finding Algorithms Overlook Hundreds of
version Gene Families
its E-WorkBook Suite to support a "virtual model for
RSS Feed EBI-Helsinki Team Integrates Array Data
pharmaceutical research."
from Thousands of Samples to Map Global
'Expression Space'
IDBS is implementing the electronic lab notebook suite as a hosted solution in
collaboration with IT firm Quantix.
Shire will use the hosted E-WorkBook solution in collaborations with contract research Next Gen Sequencing
organizations. Because the hosted approach will not require on-site data storage, it will
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reduce the IT footprint for both Shire and its CRO partners, IDBS said. The deployment
will give participants access to remote data and will also enable them to streamline Targeting the Human Exome in Medical
knowledge transfer between organizations.
Re-sequencing
Stacy Gabriel, Ph.D
Shire is a new customer for IDBS, Chris Molloy, vice president of corporate Sequencing technologies—the next
development for IDBS, told BioInform this week via e-mail. generation
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2009 Dec 8.
E-WorkBook is a platform to capture, manage, and share research data. The hosted
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solution includes a security model that "addresses concerns around cloud computing"
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so multiple CROs and other partners can share data, the company said.
"Shire is pleased to take a leadership role in implementing this emerging business
model of virtualized drug research, which uses new technologies to support novel
working practices, improve collaboration, and speed the exploratory projects research," Young Investigator Profile
Stephen Damment, senior vice president of biosciences at Shire, said in a statement.
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Shire declined to provide further comment. Papers of Note
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In this project, Shire and each of its CRO partners will be able to use E-WorkBook in a
slightly different way for the capture, securing, and review of data, Molloy said. They will Accelrys has appointed Todd Johnson to be executive
"see only the data that they need to, while all the resultant IP remains fully protected VP of sales and marketing services, and that Ilene Vogt
and owned by Shire," he explained. has departed the company and left her post as senior
VP of worldwide sales and services. Johnson joined
Accelrys in 2009 as interim CEO, and after the firm
IDBS said that it has previously implemented a multi-site hosted environment for E-
tapped Max Carnecchia to take the helm, Johnson
WorkBook with customers such as Australia's Cancer Therapeutics CRC, where it is stepped into the role of senior VP.
used by separate sites and groups to manage part of an overall research process.
Harvard University Professor Raju Kucherlapati will
serve as an Obama Administration adviser on genetic
Other undisclosed pharma companies have also implemented E-Workbook this way,
and genomic issues in his role as a member of the
often in configurations with infrastructure-as-a-service suppliers behind the company
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical
firewall, Molloy said. Issues.
The implementation is configured in order to "reassure companies that their electronic OncoMethylome Sciences has named Jan Groen to
take over as CEO. Groen formerly was president and
collaboration systems will not leak IP to third parties and that their data-management
COO of Agendia, and he was VP of R&D at Quest's
infrastructure will be able to handle the size and complexity of the growing external Focus Diagnostics subsidiary.
research environment," Molloy said.
Molloy said that since IDBS acquired InforSense last year (BI 7/6/2009), "we have Upcoming Events
taken the lead in demonstrating how to successfully integrate industry-leading
[electronic lab notebook] and analytic technologies." For example, he said together the Genetic Variation
firms launched the "world's first biomarker ELN" in February and "already have made Tech Guide Archives
multiple sales."
He acknowledged that the merger of Accelrys and Symyx, announced earlier this
month (BI 4/9/2010), will present some competition. Accelrys offers the Pipeline Pilot
workflow software, which competes with the InforSense technology, and Symyx brings
At AACR this week, Bert
its own ELN to the combined entity. Vogelstein said that
cancer is a known entity.
The merged firms "will still be a strong competitor in some chemistry market sectors but Do you agree?
IDBS remains highly differentiated," he said. "Our breadth of domain understanding, Yes. We have the
robust technologies, and ability to be a strategic player in higher-growth markets such basics down.
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differences." enough to be dangerous.
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At the American Association BioMérieux and Knome will Genome Canada plans to use
for Cancer Research annual collaborate on developing the C$75 million in funding it In this month's Brute Force column,
meeting, National Institutes of next-generation sequencing- will receive under Canada's Matthew Dublin says that while many
Health Director Francis based molecular diagnostics. 2010 budget to support the people are concerned about the amount
Collins and National Cancer BioMérieux intends to purchase of new technologies of data generated by next-gen
Institute Director John develop cancer and infectious and a wide array of research sequencers, a more pressing concern
Niederhuber highlighted disease diagnostics using efforts, which will emphasize might be how to deal with analyzing that
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