Bioz
Announces New Bioz Stars Technology, the World's First Unbiased Rating System
for Life Science Products
Disruptive Software Startup Guides Researchers in Selecting Life Science
Products for Experimentation with Objective, Peer-Reviewed Rating System - an
Industry-First
PALO ALTO, Calif. -
Nov. 1, 2016 - Bioz, Inc., developers of
the world's first
search engine for life science experimentation, today announced the release of its
latest Bioz Stars technology. Bioz Stars is a fully objective product rating
system that accelerates scientific discovery.
"Researchers have been asking for an easier eCommerce
purchasing process for laboratory products that would provide simple,
evidence-supported comparison between competing brands and products," stated
Frost & Sullivan Senior Life Science Industry Analyst Christi Bird. "The Bioz Stars platform fills that void, serving as an ideal
starting place for laboratories to research products."
Bioz'
proprietary, multi-parameter algorithmic rating system is based on over a
billion data points that have been extracted from tens of millions of
peer-reviewed scientific articles using advanced Natural Language Processing
(NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. The algorithm's parameters are
weighted and normalized.
The new Bioz
Stars technology further enhances the industry's first and only unbiased rating
system that is already in use by scientists around the world to help them
quickly identify the best reagents, instruments, equipment and consumables for
their experiments. The Bioz platform incorporates Bioz Star ratings to help
guide researchers towards making the best, most well informed and transparent
decisions possible, ensuring that their future experiments are better, quicker
and more cost-effective.
"The volume
of reagents, consumables, equipment and instruments available for purchase is
daunting," said Dr. Shai Saroussi,
Postdoctoral researcher at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University. "With
so many product options on the market from countless vendors, choosing the
product that will work best in an experiment is painstaking. Once I started
using the Bioz search engine, my research was transformed. Moreover, the
integrated Bioz Stars product ratings are unbiased and based on millions of
previously published peer-reviewed life science articles, allowing me to
quickly and efficiently identify the best products for my experiments, helping
me to conduct better, faster and more cost-effective research."
Life
science researchers in academia and biopharma spend $80 billion annually to
purchase millions of products for their experiments -- from reagents to consumables
to instruments and equipment. Many products, antibodies being a key example,
have extremely high failure rates, leading to research delays and stalled drug
discovery. Prior to Bioz Stars, there was not an easy way for researchers to
either anticipate poorly performing and incompatible products, or to compare
and select the best products to use in their specific assays and experiments.
The new Bioz
Stars technology release, available to users today, incorporates both new and
enhanced rating parameters, including, but not limited to, the following:
* Product Mentions Index (product popularity relative
to corpus)
* Article Recency (date of
the article from where entity was extracted)
* Journal Impact Factor (as published annually by
Thomson Reuters)
* Article Citation Strength (citation count related to
extracted entity mentions)
* Efficacy Factor (entity popularity within category
relative to corpus average)
* Tendency Factor (entity popularity relative to category
average)
* Timeline Slope Factor (product usage timeline trend
anomaly adjustment)
* Product Recency (product age
relative to corpus)
* OEM Factor (original manufacturer weighting adjustment)
"The new
features incorporated into our game-changing Bioz Stars rating system allow for
unprecedented insights for life science researchers around the world who are
planning their experiments," said Dr. Karin Lachmi, co-founder and chief
scientific officer of Bioz. "At Bioz, we are
continually looking for ways to improve the quality of scientific
experimentation and ultimately speed up drug discovery and finding cures for
diseases. Technology such as this, that helps scientists compare products for
experimentation, was sorely lacking during my time as a researcher at Stanford University.
We strive to have the Bioz Stars ratings technology align itself as closely as
possible with how researchers actually think when deciding which products to
use in their experiments."
The Bioz platform and Bioz Stars are available free to researchers and
scientists. Visit www.bioz.com, and start
using Bioz today to find the best products for your experiments.
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About Bioz, Inc.
Bioz, Inc.
offers the world's first search engine for life science experimentation. The
patent-pending software platform combines the work of scientists with advanced
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to help life
scientists in academia and biopharma make faster and smarter experimentation
decisions, ultimately speeding up drug discovery and increasing the rate of
success in finding cures for diseases. Founded in 2013 by Stanford research
scientist, Karin Lachmi, Ph.D., and CEO Daniel Levitt, Bioz is a StartX
accelerator company. Bioz is used by 60,000 researchers from over 5,000 universities
and companies in 175 countries. Try Bioz at www.bioz.com.
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