Sage-N
Research, Inc., the world leader in
computational proteomics, today announced that it entered into an exclusive
license agreement with the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC)
to commercialize a revolutionary new platform for rapid and sensitive detection
and identification of pathogenic microorganisms in fluid media.
This license allows the
integration of ECBC's Agents of Biological Organs Identification (ABOID) system
into the company's existing SORCERER
TM proteomics platform,
enabling rapid and cost-effective detection and identification of
microorganisms. Currently, the ABOID system can identify 4500 different
bacteria, viruses and fungi.
"This cutting edge
technology enables identification of microorganisms down to strain level in
minutes, rather than hours," said ECBC Senior Scientist Charles Wick, Ph.D. "This
proves very successful for infectious disease identification and a range of
other potential applications in military, medical, pharmaceutical, food and
public safety areas."
The new platform will
utilize the Computational Power of Sage-N Research's SORCERER and Mass
Spectrometry based Proteomics to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi and other
cellular material without the need for growing cultures, or any prior knowledge
about them.
In addition, Ali Pervez,
Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sage-N Research comments: "Proteomics is a rapidly emerging field, and
Proteomics will play a key role in Life Science and Medical Research over the
next five years. We are excited to use our core expertise to bring the power of
this cutting edge technology and our SORCERER platform to a wider audience
including Infectious diseases, clinical, environmental and food testing
markets."
SORCERER
TM
is a trademark of Sage-N Research, Inc. .
About Sage-N Research, Inc.
Sage-N
Research, Inc. is the world leader in supplying Integrated Data Appliances
(IDAs) for proteomics research. The industry-leading SORCERER IDAs are
plug-and-play productivity systems used by leading life science researchers
worldwide to rapidly and accurately identify proteins and protein modifications
in biological samples using mass spectrometry data. Founded in 2002, the
company is a privately held corporation headquartered in San
Jose, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. Through strategic collaborations with
leading scientists and companies, Sage-N Research advances the state of the art
in ease-of-use, applications, and technology to enable world-changing
discoveries in biology and medicine. For more information, please visit
www.SageNResearch.com
About ECBC
ECBC is the
U.S.Army's principal research and development center for chemical and
biological defense technology, engineering and field operations. ECBC has
achieved major technological advances for the Warfighter and for our national
defense, with a long and distinguished history of providing the Armed Forces
with quality systems and outstanding customer service. ECBC is a US Army
Research, Development and Engineering Command laboratory located at the
Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. For more information about the
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, please visit our Web site at
http://www.ecbc.army.mil
or call (410) 436-7118.
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