Life Sciences and Healthcare

The Pharmaceutical research community generates scientific literature at an exponential rate. Attempting to stay abreast of even a restricted part of the literature is becoming very difficult but, when drug discovery is costly, utilising all available knowledge is essential.

Although some tools for searching in text already exist, and some hand-curated databases are being created, there has previously been no automated way of getting directly from the free text data to a format that can be used immediately for analysis.

I2E provides that missing link - presenting the user with a solution which enables very specific searches to be created on the fly (e.g. MAPK interacts with which targets?) and tabulated results to be returned very quickly. As well as generating data for analysis, this functionality enables I2E to be used in real time data-gathering tasks such as ontology creation which are becoming increasingly important in this sector.