REDWOOD CITY, California, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New contextual data analysis in IPA 7 enables researchers to quickly 
generate analysis results and scientific hypotheses that are targeted to a 
specific experimental model.

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life
science researchers, today announced the release of IPA 7 with contextual
data analysis. Contextual data analysis is comprised of a series of powerful
biological filters and other tools that make it easier to quickly understand
experimental results and fine-tune scientific hypotheses in relation to a
particular experimental context or model.

Contextual data analysis enhances IPA's powerful search and analysis
capabilities by enabling researchers to refine their experimental analyses
and develop scientific hypothesis based on findings that have been
demonstrated to occur in a particular species, cell types, tissues,
bio-fluids, biological processes, cellular functions, chemicals, and disease
of interest. For example, a CNS researcher can run an analysis and identify
molecular interactions and gene to phenotype associations that have
specifically been demonstrated in CNS tissues or cell lines -- effectively
narrowing the hypothesis space to those most closely aligned with their
experimental model.

Patrick De Boever, Ph.D., Flemish Institute for Technological Research
(VITO), noted, "The new tools in IPA 7 are great for constructing
species-specific biological interaction networks from our toxicogenomics
data. This approach enabled us to reveal molecules that hold potential as
blood biomarkers for neurotoxic effects induced by environmental pollutants."

Additional features have been added in IPA 7 to support researchers'
workflows including:

-- microRNA target information
    -- New Reporting Tools
    -- New Signaling Pathways
    -- Additional Chemical Content



About Ingenuity Pathways Analysis

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis is an all-in-one software application that
enables researchers to model, analyze, and understand the complex biological
and chemical systems at the core of life science research. IPA's search
capabilities provide users with access to the highest quality detail-rich
knowledge available on genes, drugs, chemicals, protein families, cellular
and disease processes, and signaling and metabolic pathways. IPA supports
analysis of data from all experimental platforms, and is used at all stages
of the drug discovery and development process, including target
identification and validation, biomarker discovery, molecular toxicology,
metabolomics, and pharmacogenomics. IPA has been broadly adopted and cited in
hundreds of peer-reviewed journals 
(http://www.ingenuity.com/library/pdf/bibliography.pdf).

About Ingenuity Systems(R)

Ingenuity Systems is a leading provider of information solutions and
custom services for life science researchers, computational biologists and
bioinformaticists, and life science industry suppliers. Our long-term focus
on innovation in semantic search has allowed us to create groundbreaking
technologies that have one common goal -- to generate maximum value from all
types of biological and chemical knowledge. Ingenuity offerings leverage the
Ingenuity Knowledge Base, which contains uniquely structured literature
findings that allow scientists to ask complex biological questions and gain
rapid insight into their experimental data or systems of interest. Today,
Ingenuity's solutions are used by thousands of researchers at hundreds of
leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, and government research
institutions worldwide. http://www.ingenuity.com