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As scientists have developed the tools and technologies that allow them explore the foundations of molecular activity - genes, proteins, and metabolites - they have discovered that these components almost never work alone. Systems biology and biomarker discovery research seeks to understand these complex interactions.

Researchers focusing on biomarker discovery require access to two critical types of data:

• clinical information, including data contained in hospital systems and medical records, pathology reports and diagnostics labs, clinical trials systems and participant questionnaires; and
• biomolecular information, including sequencing, genotyping, gene expression, proteomics, metabolomics, imaging and other high-throughput research data.

Aggregating data across sciences will lead to accelerated discoveries from integrated analysis. An informatics platform must be able to support research across multiple sciences in order to advance biomarker discoveries.

GenoLogics has a number of interoperable systems to support even the most complex biomarker discovery program:

• informatics solutions for life science labs, which includes genomics and proteomics data management on our OMIX platform; and
• informatics solutions for managing biospecimens and biorepositories.

To learn more about how adopting an informatics platform can address some of those challenges, listen to the podcast Enabling Translational Research Informatics or Manage Your Biorepositories.

For more information, download our solutions to Translational Research Informatics or solutions to Biorepositories and Biomedical Informatics documents.