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PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS
Blue Reference works with a global network of business partners to bring customers the full complement of technology, skills and expertise required to deliver best-of-breed productivity and collaboration solutions for Life Sciences R&D.
Strategic Partners
Development and co-marketing relationships between Blue Reference and industry-leading technology and service organizations to meet the critical system implementation, software integration, and platform deployment needs of Life Science customers:
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Waters Informatics has selected Blue Reference as a Strategic Partner. In selecting Blue Reference, Waters identified compelling market opportunities, joint products that align with the opportunities, and a strategy to jointly commercialize products that will maximize success for our customers. The relationship is focused on delivering added value to customers from integration synergies between the Blue Reference Paradigm Software Platform with the Waters Informatics Nugenesis Scientific Data Management System, MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software and Empower Chromatography Software. |
Product Integration
Software, technology, and service vendors who encourage and promote integration of their products with Blue Reference solutions to provide added value for their Life Science customers:
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Integration of Paradigm with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables organization to employ SharePoint 2010 as an effective collaboration platform for life scientists in R&D. Integration of Paradigm with Microsoft Office 2010 enables life scientists to embed and manage science objects directly in Office 2010 documents which can be searched and managed in SharePoint. |
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Integration of Paradigm for Search to the Symyx Notebook by Accelrys (ELN) enables Life Science organizations to offer unified, single point-of-access scientific search across all data source in the organization including all Symyx Notebook by Accelrys sources and heterogeneous sources whether comprised of unstructured (file shares, document management systems) or structured (SQL databases, LIMS) data. |
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Integration of Paradigm for Search with EMC Documentum enables Life Science organizations to search their Documentum CMS on the basis of science objects including chemical structures, biological sequences, spectra and images. |
Technology Collaborations
Vendors who provide complementary software technologies employed by Blue Reference to build productivity and collaboration solutions:
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The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) is a language-neutral bioinformatics extension to the Microsoft .NET Framework, which includes parsers for common bioinformatics file formats, algorithms for manipulating protein sequences, and connectors to related web services. |
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Indigo is a universal organic chemistry toolkit comprised of a cheminformatics library written in modern C++ with C, Java, C# and Python APIs. |
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Aspose.Total for .NET is a software toolkit with a C# API for managing and transforming common but complex business file formats. |
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Windows Azure AppFabric SDK is a key component of the Windows Azure Platform. The SDK includes API libraries for building connected applications with the Windows Azure AppFabric. |
Community Initiatives
Organizations directed at developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, interpreting, and maintaining standards that address the interest of a wide base of users in the Life Science industry:
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An initiative to provide an open foundation of data standards, ontologies and services to streamline the Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery workflow (Chemistry, Biological Screening, Logistics) through common business terms, relationships and processes. |
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A cross-industry development organization focused on practical standards for exchanging information needed to accelerate the pace of translational medicine. |
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