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
"A year ago, we compared CMA analysis software packages before committing ourselves to a package. Nexus Copy Number was the only one we found that 1) allows the user to easily and immediately compare array results to what has been reported in the DGV and other databases, 2) is able to present data from hundreds of arrays of different platforms at the same time, 3) lets us add and use our own analysis algorithms, 4) permits us to add numerous tracks so that we can see ALL the information we know about a region at the same time, and 5) lets the user decide what is clinically relevant. There may be packages out there that do one or two of these things, but this robust user-friendly package is unique. In addition, the timely and efficient responsiveness of the staff is second to none. In the rare instances that I have been unable to “figure something out” myself, the staff at BioDiscovery were quick, cheerful, informed, and capable of helping me resolve any problem."Dr. Charles Towne, Athena Diagnostics, Inc.
"We have recently switched our platform to utilize BioDiscovery software in our analysis of microarray data from Affymetrix and Agilent platforms. As a leader in this field I have to congratulate your team on their professional attitude towards their customers. Although both ImaGene and Nexus Copy Number are easy to use and utilize, what impressed me most about BioDiscovery is the support you get with your purchase. Mr. Raja Keshavan, Dr. Shams, and Shalini Verma were not only helpful but rather impressive with their support. This "Personal" support played and will play a major role in our success and I am sure in the success of BioDiscovery. I truly congratulate you on this success. We will soon switch fully to BioDiscovery after extensive testing. In the coming year we will install multi-user licenses for Nexus in our Research Core Facility."
Dr. Fahd Al-Mulla, Associate Professor and Head of Molecular Pathology, Kuwait University.
"We have been using Nexus Copy Number software for the past three years and have found it to be very useful in identifying copy number variant (CNV) data from different array platforms."
Dr. Charles Lee, Associate Professor and Clinical Cytogeneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
"Nexus has made exploration of multiple groups comparisons of large genomic data sets easy and is flexible enough to allow visualization of results from our newly developed algorithms."
Anders Isaksson, Group Leader, and Hanna Göransson Kultima, Bioinformatician, Cancer Pharmacology and Informatics, Uppsala University
"The data exploration modules in Nexus allow us to design straightforward experiments which help clarify the causal nature of genomic alterations in cancer. This has become an invaluable tool for our collaboration with Bio-informatics specialists."
Dr. Lloyd Trotman, Assistant Professor, Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"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 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.”
Dr. Simon Gregory, Assistant Professor at Duke Center for Human Genetics
"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
"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!"
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
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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