As Elsevier notes, Ariadne's flagship product,Pathway Studio, is widely used by pharmaceutical, agriculture and academicinstitutions to provide analyses of molecular pathways and disease progression.The integrated data mining and visualization product organizes relevant factsand relationships from large document collections of genes, proteins, cellprocesses and diseases. Powered by Ariadne's MedScan technology, the Pathwaytools enable visualization of biological relationships spanning biomedicalliterature and supports the interpretation of experimental results utilizingdomain-specific ontologies, taxonomies and dictionaries.
With our integration into Elsevier, we lookforward to strengthening our ability to serve biological researchers inscientific communities through further development of Pathway Studio, fortifiedwith Elsevier's content, and complementing Elsevier's leadership role acrossbiomedical disciplines," noted Ariadne's CEO, Ilya Mazo, of the acquisition.
"As a customer of both providers, I am excited tolearn that Ariadne Genomics and Elsevier have joined," said Dr. Jonathan Usuka,director of global business planning at
Celgene, a multinational biopharmaceuticalcompany. "Pathway Studio provides essential support to our immunologicalstudies. As part of Elsevier, there is the potential to deliver even more valueto our researchers."