Bioz, Inc. came out of stealth today with the introduction of the world’s first search engine for life science experimentation to speed scientific research into finding cures for diseases and to accelerate drug discovery.
Bioz has been enthusiastically welcomed in scientific communities via an early beta program. Currently, over 30,000 users from academic research labs and industry R&D labs, from more than 1,000 universities and biopharma companies, from 40 countries are using Bioz. The company was co-founded by serial entrepreneur and CEO Daniel Levitt, and accomplished Stanford research scientist Karin Lachmi, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Bioz.
“We created Bioz to disrupt the slow and siloed nature of life science research by increasing knowledge sharing and successful experimentation, ultimately helping to speed up the rate of drug discovery,” said Daniel Levitt, co-founder and CEO of Bioz. “The life science research market is ripe for technology innovation that can streamline experimentation and arm researchers with tools to work faster, smarter and more cost-effectively.”
Each year, researchers in academia and biopharma spend $80 billion to purchase millions of products (reagents, consumables, and instruments) for use in life science experiments. Some of these products have very high failure rates; a case in point are antibodies that don’t work up to 50 percent of the time, and yet before Bioz there was no easy way for researchers to quickly find, compare and select the products that would work best in their specific assays and experiments.
“As a researcher, I can personally attest to the challenges in research trial and error, which slows the pace of scientific discovery and the ultimate path to curing diseases,” said Dr. Karin Lachmi, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Bioz. “Here was an opportunity to transform an inefficient product selection process, disrupt the life science tools industry and change the world. If we can help researchers save months of study due to failed experiments, imagine the strides science will be able to make. Bioz has a single mission—to make scientific research faster, more cost-effective and more accurate than ever before.”
Typically, life science researchers go through a tedious and manual review process to reference similar published research papers when designing new experiments. But the text in articles is dense and the volume of available material is staggering. A new paper is published every 10 seconds and can run more than 30 pages, creating a limitless haystack of unstructured information.
The Bioz cloud platform’s patent-pending software architecture taps the latest advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to mine and structure hundreds of millions of pages of complex and unstructured scientific papers, placing an unprecedented amount of summarized scientific experimentation knowledge at researchers’ fingertips. The Bioz platform helps researchers select products, plan experiments, write papers, apply for grants and collaborate, speeding up experimentation and drugdiscovery.