Microsoft Takes Aim at Life-Sci Community with New Platform and New Partnerships

GenomeWeb reports that

Microsoft this week introduced its Amalga Life Sciences software to help integrate healthcare and life science research data.

The firm’s BioIT Alliance, a network of life science vendors formed in 2006, also announced new collaborations intended to expand the alliance to ventures devoted to data sharing and collaboration.

More details are available in the GenomeWeb article.

As described on the BioIT Alliance website,

The Alliance is a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. The Alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences.