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St. Louis, MO and San Diego, CA, December 14, 2005 - Sigma-Aldrich
has licensed 100 signal transduction pathways from ProteinLounge.com. These pathways
illustrate protein interaction and cellular signaling maps. Sigma will use these
pathways for placement on their web site and print marketing. The pathways will
allow researchers to more easily find Sigma products related to signal transduction
components.
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San Diego, CA and Maynard, MA, September 3, 2004 - Protein Lounge,
a provider of biological pathways and other systems biology databases, and OmniViz,
Inc., a leading provider of advanced visual informatics software, components, and
services, announce their collaborative effort to make Protein Lounge content deployable
within the OmniViz Pathway Enterprise™ (OPE) software. OmniViz will become the exclusive
distributor for Protein Lounge’s pathway content within informatics software.
OPE is a full-featured pathway display, drawing, and analysis package that supports
enterprise-wide sharing and searching. The underlying biological object model allows
semantic integration of data, which is required when dealing with multiple users
and multiple sources of information, and inherently creates a complete cross-reference
of all components. OPE provides support for textbook-style drawings, including entities
such as cellular components and membranes, but with interactive objects that can
be color-coded according to experimental data and linked to literature analysis.
"OPE is designed to support data from all of the sources needed by our customers.
The Protein Lounge pathways are rich in content and have an exceptional three-dimensional
presentation that also conveys context," said Dr. Jeffrey Saffer, President of OmniViz.
Being able to offer these pathways as part of a bundled solution adds to the growing
value of the OPE platform."
Protein Lounge has over 300 manually curated cell signaling and biosynthetic pathways.
Each pathway includes a detailed description and references. The content is further
supported by detailed information about each protein or molecule.
"Having OmniViz as the distributor for our pathway content will expand availability
of our pathways to the commercial arena," said Dr. Samik Singh, CEO of Protein Lounge.
"OPE’s enterprise-level solution provides a versatile framework for our content
and will allow companies to utilize those pathways within the larger context needed
for discovery."
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SAN DIEGO, CA, August 16, 2004 - Protein Lounge has developed a
database which contains antigenic peptide targets against all know proteins throughout
a variety of organisms. This is the first of such databases. This Peptide Antigen
Database was developed using Protein Lounge's proprietary algorithm which distinguishes
the most antigenic regions of a protein. All peptide targets are linked to Protein
Lounge's online hyrdoplotting tool, which allows you to view an interactive
version of the protein sequence on a hydrophilicity/phobicity plot. This is a necessary
database for anyone working with antibody or drug development. This database will
greatly increase the speed at which a drug discovery company will be able to distinguish
protein drug targets.
The most important aspect in the production of antibodies or drugs is the design
of the peptide-antigen. A peptide-antigen is a small segment (15-18 amino acids)
of the protein sequence of interest. These peptide-antigens can be used for immunization
in order to produce antibodies against the protein or they can be used as a basis
for small-molecule/drug targeting.
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SAN DIEGO, CA, May 31, 2004 – Protein Lounge, a leader is systems
biology databases and bioinformatics tools, today announced that EMD Biosciences
has agreed to take a non-exculsive license of some of Protein Lounge’s signal transduction
pathway images.
Under the terms of the agreement EMD Biosciences will have a non-exculsive license
for one-year to use 13 of Protein Lounge’s signal transduction pathway images. EMD
will use these pathways in their web-based and printed marketing. EMD believes that
the addition of these signal transduction pathways to their marketing will attract
additional attention to their reagents made against the proteins of those pathways.
Protein Lounge has licensed the following pathways to EMD:
1. Alzheimer's Disease Pathway
2. GSK3 Signaling
3. Caspase Cascade
4. Akt Signaling
5. Mitochondrial Apoptosis Pathway
6. p53 Signaling
7. DNA Repair Mechanisms
8. Cytokine network
9. MAPK Family Pathway
10. GPCR Pathway
11. NFKB Family Pathway
12. VEGF Pathway
13. Insulin Pathway
Protein Lounge has hundreds of additional signal transduction and metabolic pathways
which are also available for license.
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"To run a company is not to make money.
But to engage people. To make them realize their Dream."
May 22, 1977 - Dec 14, 2010
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Samik Singh was an entrepreneur. While he was an undergraduate student at the University of California at San Diego, he started a journal called, San Diego Biotech Journal, to promote local biotech research and companies.
He was the Founder, Publisher, and Editor of the Biotech Journal. It started as a 4-page black and white journal printed at a local Kinko’s store and became an immediate hit with local researchers.
Later he went on to publish this as a full-fledged journal and launched “Biotech Journal” website. Recent advances in science, particularly in biological sciences, fascinated him.
He had his own simple way of writing, which could be appreciated by the experts in the field as well as by laymen.
With the money saved from the advertisement revenues from the Biotech Journal, he started Protein Lounge ( proteinlounge.com) an on-line bioinformatics database with stunning graphics and animations combining with scientific accuracy to depict protein-protein interactions and relevance of proteins in various disease states.
This site is very popular with scientists and used widely across the globe.
He is no longer with us.
However, during short span of his life, he has created a unique website for the scientific community to enjoy and help in their research for years to come.
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