Maven Semantic releases updates to Biotechnology research database

Jul 14 2010

Maven Semantic (http://www.mavensemantic.com) announces updates to their Biotechnology research database.

“The system uses the context in which a given person appears, using artificial intelligence techniques to find out information not otherwise visible - for example, how important is this person in a specific medical research specialization”

The new database is now available to marketing, business development, competitor intelligence, KOL, medical affairs and related departments in the life sciences sector.

The database currently tags 116,000 individuals working in Biotechnology. http://bit.ly/bFo0cD .

Top 10 Countries for Biotechnology Research (ranked by number of senior Biotechnology researchers)

. United States Of America (28,238)

. Japan (11,174)

. China (10,211)

. Korea (5,607)

. Germany (5,403)

. United Kingdom (5,038)

. India (4,366)

. Italy (3,266)

. Canada (2,694)

. France (2,269)

Leading organisations in Biotechnology research include:

. Institute of Biotechnology

. Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

. Chinese Academy of Sciences

. Tokyo Institute of Technology

. University of California

. Biotechnology Research Institute

. University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

. National Research Council of Canada

. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

. National Institutes of Health

. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

. Cornell University

. Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute

. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

. Biotechnology Research Center

. National Center for Biotechnology Information

. Harvard Medical School

. Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

. Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

. Institut Pasteur

. Tel Aviv University

. Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology

. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

. Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology

. Center of Marine Biotechnology

. Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology

The database also includes pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, CROs, hospitals, government labs and other organisations active in the Biotechnology research field.

Sample companies in database include:

. Genentech, Inc

. Monsanto Company

. Cytos Biotechnology AG

. Ajinomoto Co., Inc

. Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd

. Amgen Inc

. Merck & Co., Inc

. Eli Lilly and Company

. Texas Biotechnology Corporation

. Ciba-Geigy Ltd

. Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd

. Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc

. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

. Kikkoman Corporation

. Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc

. Chiron Corporation

. Novartis Pharma AG

. Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd

. Baxter Healthcare Corporation

. GLYCART Biotechnology AG

. Rorer Biotechnology, Inc

. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc

. California Biotechnology Inc

. Kaneka Corporation

. Mercian Corporation

. Bayer Corporation

. Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc

. Kirin Brewery Co., Ltd

. Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd

. Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp

. Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Ltd

. Genencor International, Inc

. Human Genome Sciences, Inc

What is Maven:

- Largest database of international medical professionals, with over 5,600,000 people and over 500,000 medical organisations;

- All records are downloadable to excel or in-house database, with email, postal address and phone contacts;

- Profile and segment the entire database using over 47,000 diseases and therapeutic areas

What is Maven used for:

- Building prospect lists for postal, telesales and email campaigns

- Locating key decision makers in companies, hospitals, government labs, university labs, and other healthcare facilities

- Identifying candidates for recruitment to very specific life science positions

About the Maven Semantic Medical Database: The current database holds over 5 million medical professionals, and 500,000 medical organisations.

The Maven Semantic medical database covers pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, clinical research labs, hospitals, medical universities and government research organisations.

Maven is a SaaS subscription-based service. Clients can choose from quarterly or yearly subscriptions, or as pay-as-you-go option to retrieve specific large datasets for in-house use.

Results can be viewed online, or exported to Excel or a CRM system.

The data is now available to international healthcare marketing teams.

About our Technology: Semantic data mining tools have been used to create a database of detailed profiles of life science companies and executives.

The system uses the open web as an underlying database and extracts specific information on people, job titles, biographies, research profiles, contact details (dept., phone, fax, and email), organisation profiles, websites, product/services and much more.

Maven is based on healthcare crawlers/bots, search technology, semantic parsers, clustering, natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

"The system uses the context in which a given person appears, using artificial intelligence techniques to find out information not otherwise visible - for example, how important is this person in a specific medical research specialization," says Alejandro Mesas, Semantic Systems Architect. "The big advantage of a focused semantic healthcare database over a generic search engine is that it has built-in taxonomies and a thesaurus to expand and refine the user queries. We then use scoring and ranking to fine tune the relevance of the results for a given therapeutic area. For example, stem cell researchers are given a "page rank", based on where they work, their job title, how many times they have published, where they have published, etc. The relevance can be fine tuned by the user".

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