Delft, Netherlands and Basel, Switzerland, 2006/06/15
Genedata announces its collaboration with the Netherlands’ Kluyver Centre, a joint industry and academic consortium that applies genomics technology to improve industrial fermentation. The Swiss bioinformatics company will support high throughput genomics data analysis and result sharing among the consortium’s 9 interdisciplinary research partners.
The Kluyver Centre brings together fermentation experts from industry and academia to enhance this lucrative industrial sector. The Centre is part of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative and focuses on addressing major scientific challenges in metabolic engineering and bio-transformation. It also develops sustainable and environmentally friendly production methods.
Research focuses on fermentation in yeast, filamentous fungi and lactic acid bacteria and involves sequencing, genome-wide functional studies and strain and process design. Genedata’s computational solutions will support all aspects of this research program. Professor De Winde, business director of the Kluyver Centre, explained, “We needed a research informatics partner able to support a complete systems biology workflow”.
The consortium will use Genedata Phylosopher® and Expressionist® to support central data storage and provide automated workflows to integrate transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data. “We will be able to pool genomics expertise across the entire Kluyver Centre network using Genedata’s standardised and integrated informatics resources”, explained Professor Pronk, scientific director of the Kluyver Centre.
“We are proud to collaborate with this world class public-private research consortium”, said Dr. Othmar Pfannes, CEO of Genedata AG. Genedata currently supports several research consortia in Europe and has developed computational solutions tailored towards multi-site, multi-year research programs. Dr. Pfannes added, “Our computational solutions anticipate the evolving needs of research groups that adopt a systems biology approach”.
Genedata specializes in discovery informatics for biotech, pharmaceuticals and the life sciences. The Company offers expertise in research informatics combined with open and scalable computational solutions. Our solutions include Genedata Phylosopher® for integrating, structuring, and analyzing research data. Genedata Screener® for high throughput screening analysis. And Genedata Expressionist® for omics data integration, processing and analysis. Founded in 1997 as a privately held spin off from Novartis, Genedata is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and has branches in Munich (Germany), Boston (USA) and San Francisco (USA). The Company is also represented in Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. For more information about Genedata, please visit: www.genedata.com.
The Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation is a consortium of Delft University of Technology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Leiden University, Nijmegen University, Utrecht University, TNO, Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences, Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group and NIZO food research. It employs microbial genomics to improve microorganisms for use in industrial fermentation processes. Fermentation is used in the production, from renewable feedstocks, of food products and ingredients, beverages, pharmaceutical compounds, nutraceuticals, and fine and bulk chemicals. The research covers six programmes: yeast fermentation, fungal fermentation, lactic acid fermentation, biocatalysis, genomics tools including bioinformatics and society and genomics. For more information about the Kluyver Centre, please visit: www.kluyvercentre.nl.
Contact
Genedata AG
Dr. Tobe Freeman
Manager Public Relations
Phone +41 61 697 8510
Fax +41 61 697 7244
tobe.freeman@genedata.com
www.genedata.com
Kluyver Centre
Dr. Jean-Marc Daran
Assistant Professor
Phone +31 15 278 2412
Fax +31 15 278 2355
j.m.daran@tnw.tudelft.nl
www.kluyvercentre.nl
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