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The new search capability will be freely available to researchers toenable them to rapidly locate and purchase the Sigma-Aldrich products mostrelevant to their research. The search capability will enable researchers tounderstand those products in a content-rich environment of highly relevantbiological and chemical relationships.
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Dr. David Smoller, President of Sigma-Aldrich's Research Biotech businessunit, said, "Customers will not only be able to now utilize our search toolssuch as Your Favorite Gene(TM) (http://www.sigma.com/yfg), a Web-based toolthat enables life science researchers to match gene information to thousandsof Sigma-Aldrich products against their gene of interest, but this partnershipwill also extend customers' searches to much broader biological queries arounddisease, function, and pathways."
Jake Leschly, CEO of Ingenuity, added, "Today's increasing emphasis on asystems view of biology is requiring scientists to design their experimentsbased on a more complete and dynamic understanding of biology. Through thisinnovative partnership with Sigma-Aldrich, we will enable researchers toleverage the breath of Ingenuity's knowledge and technology to gain scientificinsight and to immediately translate this into more effective experimentaldesigns and better selection of Sigma-Aldrich products."
About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and HighTechnology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kitsare used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceuticaldevelopment, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceuticaland other high technology manufacturing. The Company has customers in lifescience companies, university and government institutions, hospitals, and inindustry. Over one million scientists and technologists use its products.Sigma-Aldrich operates in 36 countries and has 7,700 employees providingexcellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to AcceleratingCustomer Success through Leadership in Life Science, High Technology andService. For more information about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit itsaward-winning Web site at sigma-aldrich.com.
About Ingenuity Systems: Ingenuity Systems enables researchers to model,analyze, and understand complex biological and chemical systems foundationalto human health and disease. All of Ingenuity's products and services haveone common goal -- to provide relevant context and understanding to lifescience researchers. The Ingenuity products include pathways analysissoftware and knowledge bases for life scientists and bioinformaticians, inaddition to business solutions focused on semantic search and enterpriseknowledge management infrastructure. Ingenuity was founded in 1998 and isheadquartered in Redwood City, California with offices in Germany,Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan. http://www.ingenuity.com.
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