Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences establishes subsidiary in the US

Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences (Strand), a life science informatics innovation company today announced that it has established a US subsidiary Strand Scientific Intelligence, Inc (Strand SI) to commercialise its innovative scientific intelligence solutions globally.

Stanford University consulting professor, Prof. Vijay Chandru, who is Strand's CEO and co-founder, said, ''Since Strand's inception in 2000, we have sought to enable scientists' ability to leverage their knowledge and experience using visualisation, analysis and modelling tools. We designed Strand's Avadis platform for this exclusive purpose of enabling scientific intelligence in the era of data intensive scientific discovery.''

Based in the San Francisco bay area, Strand SI will offer products and services based on Strand's award winning Avadis software platform.

Founded in 2000, privately held Strand is led by a team of leading computer scientists and life scientists. Strand has pioneered the practice of scientific intelligence in life and health sciences. Strand offers products and services for biologists, chemists, toxicologists that combine advanced visualisation, predictive systems modeling, data integration and scientific context management.

Strand's customers include five of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Procter & Gamble, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Wyeth Laboratories, and several other pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and numerous academic institutions globally.

With the wide availability of low cost, high throughput measurement technologies, scientists in life and health sciences face the complex challenge of making sense of abundant data. Integrating the power of analytics, business intelligence, visualisation, predictive and systems modeling, Strand has developed the practice of scientific intelligence to solve life and health sciences problems.

''Scientific Intelligence brings to the scientific community what business intelligence brought to financial and industrial users, a pragmatic approach to transform massive amounts of information into insights and decisions,'' said François Mandeville, Strand's executive vice president and general manager of Strand SI.