Nervana Expands Life Sciences Content For Semantic Knowledge Discovery
Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0 builds on News, Patent, Medline and Custom Content with addition of more than 10,000 life sciences organizations through Northern Light
Bellevue, WA – Nervana, a knowledge discovery technology company, today announced further expansion of the content available for semantic knowledge discovery through its newly introduced Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0. With Nervana Discovery 3.0, the world's most scientifically advanced and intelligent natural language query and knowledge mining system, workers in life sciences and related markets can achieve unprecedented speed, efficiency and insight in data query across the broadest range of data sets and ontologies. In addition to physical and semantic content sources on general and life sciences news, patents, Medline and custom content, Nervana has concluded an agreement with Northern Light to deliver world-wide web content for more than 10,000 biotech and pharmaceutical companies, research hospitals, educational institutions, government sites, trade associations, and other life science related organizations. The additional web content provides a comprehensive discovery process of valuable, deep content published on the web. Nervana's broad content offerings and unique product packages allow employees in research, marketing, legal, business development and human resources to dramatically speed knowledge discovery and improve business processes and ROI.
"Effective knowledge discovery and mining is a critical task for any knowledge worker in today's highly competitive Life Sciences industry, yet the quantity and complexity of data can be overwhelming," noted Nosa Omoigui, Chairman and CEO of Nervana, Inc. "As a result, companies need both the best possible search and discovery technology and access to the most relevant content, both internal and external. With the Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0 we are pushing the envelope of what it's possible to do in semantic query, while at the same time delivering the broadest range of industry-specific content and ontologies on the market – all geared toward quickly turning data into knowledge."
"With the explosion of digital content on the web, it's extremely time-consuming for a knowledge worker to cut through the clutter and mine the content efficiently," said David Seuss, CEO of Northern Light. "As a result, there is much undiscovered information unless the researcher has a comprehensive and integrated view of the entire content set available from all the world's relevant sources. With Nervana, a researcher can view and query all their data sources in a unified experience."
The Nervana Discovery Solution significantly improves both the front end user query/discovery experience and the backend processing of data from multiple, specialized or proprietary data domains and information repositories. At the interface level, knowledge workers can – for the first time – instantly build appropriate natural-language semantic queries and quickly review the most relevant, timely results. The Nervana engine processes these searches across multiple ontologies as well as across multiple physical and semantic content sources – both online and proprietary – providing on-the-fly improvements in business efficiency, effectiveness and ROI.
Content for the Nervana Discovery Solution includes general and industry-specific news feeds, comprehensive patent databases, semantic Medline query, custom or proprietary information repositories and, with the new Northern Light agreement, a wide range of life sciences web content. Businesses can now quickly generate business intelligence reports and answer questions such as, "Which research institutions are our competitors partnering with most aggressively? What is the co-authoring amongst all of our top competitors and various scientific research institutions? What new licensing opportunities exist for monoclonal antibodies used in autoimmune disease therapy?" These are just a few examples of sophisticated business queries that are possible with Nervana's Discovery Solution.
Nervana also offers a range of product packages designed to facilitate specific business functions, including drug discovery, business, licensing or marketing intelligence and IP/patent research. Researchers can drag-and-drop a published research paper to instantly create a query for monitoring related developments; marketing or business staff can conduct ongoing queries into promising target markets, industry trends or competitive developments; legal departments can track changing interpretations of government regulations, patent litigation, new filings, FDA approvals, etc. With the Nervana Discovery Solution 3.0, these employees can create queries on-the-fly, monitor new developments in real-time and instantly collaborate with co-workers around the latest information.
SOURCE: Nervana Inc.