Testimonials

Since 1997 we have been delivering quality products and quick support to our customers. Check out what some of our customers have to say about our products and customer support over the years.

Nexus Copy Number

"I feel as though BioDiscovery’s Nexus CGH software puts me back at the bench. It is truly empowering."
Dr. Colin Collins, UC San Francisco

"We have been running several different high density genome-wide arrays in our patient samples, and find that Nexus is the most user-friendly and flexible software we have used to be able to integrate and visualize all of our datasets in one place. We are able to quickly and easily identify key regions of interest and jump straight to relevant statistical tests and bioinformatics tools, making the whole process much more efficient."
Dr. Anjene Addington, Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, NIH

"Nexus has allowed us to perform group-wise aCGH analysis much faster and more efficiently than had previously been the case. Nexus is also very easy to use, unlike some other analysis programs, making it accessible to people with less computing prowess. I would not hesitate to recommend the use of this software."
Darren Marjenberg, University of Dundee

"Nexus-CGH has allowed us to analyze over 2,000 samples of high-density snp
array data in a relatively quick and efficient manner. In addition, the
output allows us to quickly identify and visualize regions where copy-number
variants are shared within the population."
Dr. Kurt Hetrick, Center for Inherited Disease Research, Johns Hopkins University

"Our research laboratory is using a wide variety of array CGH platforms and analysis software. We have found NEXUS CGH to be very user-friendly and capable of handling a large number of datasets, simultaneously."
Dr. Charles Lee of Harvard Medical School

"Using NEXUS CGH, my lab has been able to quickly and confidently process large amounts of high-density array CGH data obtained from FFPE tumor samples to identify important chromosomal regions" said Dr. Jeff Gregg head of Molecular Pathology at UC Davis. "NEXUS CGH has allowed us to move from raw data into exploring CNV's and associated genes in a matter of few hours whereas this process might have taken months to complete with other commercial or academic packages.

"We have been using Nexus for the past six months to explore chromosomal loss data in glioblastomas and meningiomas. My lab members have found the tools and visualizations now possible in Nexus Copy Number to greatly accelerate their exploration of the datasets and drill down to interesting individual genes and gain insights that were quite difficult previously.” said Dr. Stanley Nelson, Director, UCLA Site of the NIH Neuroscience Microarray Consortium. “We are excited about the new release which expands and builds on the Nexus platform for greater flexibility and more powerful analyses.  Thanks for creating a very useful product!"

"Nexus has provided us with a powerful tool for rapidly analyzing genome copy number profiles from large datasets using a variety of different platforms and the ability to incorporate expression data. These analyses are permitting us to link genomic and transcriptomic changes to clinical phenotypes and sub-populations.”
Simon Gregory, Assistant Professor at Duke Center for Human Genetics

ImaGene

"My lab has used ImaGene for many years. We are often asked to review competing products but after careful analysis we find ImaGene consistently yields higher quality results while also offering the best ease of use, and visualization tools. We recommend this software to anyone working with spotted arrays."
Dr. Norma J. Nowak - Director, Microarray and Genomics Facility - Roswell Park Cancer Institute and University at Buffalo

"We think the software is really fantastic, very intuitive and very powerful. Being a bit of a computer Luddite there are very few interactions with computers that I find in any way pleasing - but ImaGene is a rare example!"
William G.T. Willats - Associate Professor, Lektor, University of Copenhagen

ImaGene CGH Module

"My lab has used ImaGene for many years. The new aCGH module now sets ImaGene clearly above any other package that is available, yielding a profile that has less noise and a higher signal to noise ratio. Using the integrated interactive chromosome plots, we can rapidly drill-down on any chromosome region and QC the spot images. We recommend this software to anyone working with spotted arrays."
Dr. Norma J. Nowak - Director, Microarray and Genomics Facility - Roswell Park Cancer Institute and University at Buffalo

ImaGene Automation

"Batch is the best thing!"
Phillip Stafford, Ph.D. - Director of Biostatistics, The Translational Genomics Research Institute

"...Software from BioDiscovery saves us a lot of time and money. Its ability to automatically process the images in a high throughput manner is impressive. The quality of the spotfinding and data processing algorithms is high."
Fil Randazzo, Ph.D. - Principal Scientist, Chiron

"Ask drug developers today what their biggest bottleneck has become and invariably there's only one answer - sorting through and evaluating their data. Dealing with in-house-created data and combining it with just a small part of the available outside data from the point of concept through development, clinical trials, and intro production has become a daunting task. Jackson Wan has taken this task head on to create a first class bioinformatics center in La Jolla, California for R.W.Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (PRI)...BioDiscovery's software is used to digitally image each chip and transfer the collected image data to a database."
Studt, T., 2000 - Drug Discovery & Development - August/September: 30 - 36 A partial list of BioDiscovery customer support feedback.

Customer Service

"Let me first congratulate you on your wonderful customer service - not only was my question received and answered the very next day, but the answer was precise, brief and to the point. Needless to say it provided me with the help I required and assisted me in future uses of that specific application..."
Tel Aviv University

"Dr. Prakash has provided excellent directions on use of the GeneSight software and has been most patient in answering many of my questions. I look forward to continuing interacting with Dr.Prakash..."
University of Michigan Medical School

"I have been happy with Dr. Che's technical support. His help was great to speed up our research progress..."
Dow Chemical

"Thank you for solving the problem and helping me to carry on with my gene analysis. What can I say, you have been very helpful...."
Wayne State University

"Dr. Zhiwei Che and myself have made several email contacts. In all cases, Zhiwei has always promptly replied with useful information. While away from work, Zhiwei organized for Dr. Pankaj Prakash to handle my queries which I was also very happy with the information provided. Through these communications, I have sorted the issues I was having with using GeneSight..."
Deakin University

"I am doing very good after receiving your help. First of all, your tech. support is great. Support did great job. Without their support, i couldn't create my files. So I evaluate your tech. support to the best possible..."
Sanofi

"On behalf of Dr. Diana Gomez , Ms Lilliam Villanueva , and myself I want to thank you for offering us such a complete training program this week. The attention and the useful instruction provided to us by Dr. Prakash was outstanding. We also had the opportunity to work on our own data which was very exciting. Thanks again to you and Pankaj for the great experience."
University of Puerto Rico

"Dr. Pankaj Prakash did indeed help me with an evaluation of the GeneSight software. Pankaj was very knowledgeable and pleasant to interact with and his tour of the software was clear and to-the-point...."
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BioDiscovery Snapshot


Founded
July 1997

Mission
BioDiscovery develops and sells advanced software solutions that enable its customers to revolutionize drug discovery and diagnostics by efficiently managing, integrating, and analyzing data generated using high-throughput microarray technology

Financial Status
Privately held

Customers
Over 800 in over 30 countries

Core Competency
Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Enterprise Data Management, Knowledge Management, Gene Expression Analysis, and Bioinformatics


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