Thomson Scientific Announces Strategic Alliance With Collexis to Develop Custom Data Mining Solution for Web of Science Users
22 February 2008 - 4:13AM
PR Newswire (US)
Thomson Collexis Dashboard to Provide Scientists and Researchers
with Deep Analysis, Trending, and Visualization of Published
Information PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC;
TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the
worldwide research and business communities, and Collexis Holdings
Inc. (OTC:CLXS) (BULLETIN BOARD: CLXS) , a developer of high
definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced
plans to join together Collexis' Knowledge Dashboard with Thomson
Scientific's Web of Science to create a custom data mining solution
for the research community. Called the Thomson Collexis Dashboard,
it will provide enhanced knowledge discovery for the academic and
government R&D communities. By merging Thomson Scientific's Web
of Science data with the Collexis Knowledge Dashboard, users will
have the ability to identify and search for documents, experts and
trends, and make new discoveries more quickly, accurately and
deeply than via conventional search engines. "By marrying the data
and functionality of our technology and domain expertise in the
life sciences with Thomson Scientific's extensive research journal
database, we are enabling users to take their research to the next
level," said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Holdings, Inc. "The
Thomson Collexis Dashboard will offer expanded capabilities for
researchers to search and analyze journals and cited research back
to 1985, as well as use this unique resource to discover emerging
research paths, new hypotheses and experts." The Thomson Collexis
Dashboard is a custom software and information solution that
enables scientists to analyze large numbers of publications
concerning a defined topic swiftly and efficiently, and filter the
essential information. Additionally, it allows researchers to
explore existing knowledge concepts and provides proactive
suggestions about the direction of research across a topic or by
category. It also includes multiple thesauri that allow different
points of view on the same data and subject navigation. A
time-saving solution for scientists, the Thomson Collexis Dashboard
includes summarized information which is not to be found in any
system currently available, and provides identification of experts
across categories on multiple subsets of the literature instantly
-- including their relevant social network. The Web of Science
provides seamless access to current and retrospective
multidisciplinary information from close to 9,500 of the most
prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of
Science also provides a unique search method through cited
reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward,
and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time
spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research.
Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
"Thomson Scientific is dedicated to providing our customers with
powerful ways to mine the published literature," said Dave
Kochalko, vice president, business strategy at Thomson Scientific.
"Turning the Collexis engine on Web of Science will expose new
insights and give users the tools to make ground breaking
discoveries on specific topics in the life sciences, such as
Alzheimer's or Diabetes, or any research discipline." For more
information about an upcoming web overview of the custom designed
dashboards for Web of Science, please e-mail: About Collexis
Holdings, Inc. Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of high
definition search and knowledge discovery software since 1999,
headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina (USA) with major
operations in Cincinnati, Ohio, Geldermalsen, the Netherlands and
Cologne, Germany. Collexis now offers the world's first pre-
populated professional social network for life science researchers,
http://www.biomedexperts.com. Collexis' proprietary technology
builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from
documents, Websites, emails and other digitized content and matches
them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined "fingerprinted"
concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. This
matching of concepts eliminates the ambiguity and lack of priority
associated with word searches. The results are often described as
"finding needles in many haystacks." Through this novel approach,
Collexis can build unique applications to search, index and
aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend and predict data
based on sources in multiple industries without the limitations of
language or dialect. Collexis' current clients in the public,
private and academic sectors include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins
University; the University of California, San Francisco; the
University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library;
Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World Health
Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health;
and the U.S. Department of Defense. Shares of Collexis common stock
are traded under the symbol CLXS on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC
BB). For more information, visit www.collexis.com. About The
Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a
global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions
to business and professional customers. With operational
headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added
information, software tools and applications to professionals in
the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific
research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed
on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its
information solutions assist professionals at every stage of
research and development-from discovery to analysis to product
development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information
solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com. DATASOURCE:
Thomson Scientific CONTACT: Sue Besaw of Thomson Scientific,
+1-215-823-1840, or ; or Darrell W. Gunter, EVP-CMO of Collexis
Holdings, Inc., +1-973-454-3475, or +1-803-727-1113, or Web site:
http://www.scientific.thomson.com/ http://www.thomson.com/
http://www.collexis.com/ http://www.biomedexperts.com/
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