The alliance brings together LabBook's
desktop data integration and visualisation software with the
content-rich Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com
),
Wiley's Web-based offering of more than 300 scientific,
technical, and medical journals and major reference works,
including Wiley's highly regarded Current Protocols laboratory
manuals. LabBook's enabling software maximises the value of
such scientific content for the end user, by delivering it as
"live" reusable documents in a highly visual and interactive
discovery environment, integrated with
bioinformatic data.
"Integration of
targeted information and data is a fundamental step in the
drug discovery process, and we believe the bundling of
LabBook's innovative technology with Wiley's premier research
content and laboratory protocols will increase the
efficiencies of this process for the life science researcher,"
said Dr. Shawn J. Green, CEO of LabBook.
 Promote the use
of open standards
The Wiley-LabBook alliance will promote
the use of open standards and the development of
standards-based applications to help fuel ongoing innovations
in the life sciences. By combining an open and widely accepted
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standard for bioinformatics,
Bioinformatics Sequence Markup Language (BSML), with a
biology-smart browser, Genomic XML BrowserTM and XML
converters, LabBook has created the ideal "front-end" for life
science informatics that enables dynamic integration and
annotation of diverse
databases.
"LabBook's enabling software adds power to
the wealth of comprehensive and timely information and the
advanced search, navigation, and retrieval capabilities of
Wiley InterScience." said Eric A. Swanson, Senior Vice
President, Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishing, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. "Our relationship with LabBook
represents another important step by Wiley to deliver our
content online in a manner that accelerates the discovery
process for researchers in commercial, academic, and
government settings. We look forward to partnering with
LabBook in the development, marketing, and distribution of
sophisticated informatics-based knowledge management solutions
suited to the diverse needs of our
customers."
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Provide researchers
with a web workspace
Wiley's delivery of
Current Protocols content online, both through its Wiley
InterScience platform and integrated within LabBook's software
environment, will provide researchers with a web workspace for
online access to Current Protocols' carefully annotated,
step-by-step procedures of the best scientific methods,
contributed by hundreds of highly respected investigators from
various scientific fields. Published by Wiley since 1987,
starting with Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, the
protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability,
lab-tested in leading laboratories, and thoroughly scrutinized
by expert editorial boards to ensure easy duplication in any
lab. With their regular updates, these publications constantly
evolve and change to meet the needs of the scientific research
community.
Wiley InterScience was launched in the
fall of 1997 to meet the growing world wide demand for
important, reliable, and timely scientific, technical, medical
and professional information. More than 300 journals in full
text dating back to January 1997 and a number of major
reference works are now available online via Wiley
InterScience, to licensees and their authorised users. A range
of licensing options, including Basic Access and Enhanced
Access Licenses, are offered to meet the needs of both small
and large institutional customers. Wiley InterScience also
provides Web access for members of scientific societies to
their peer-reviewed professional journals published with
Wiley, as well as Web-based access, for guest and other users,
to cited journal content linked via CrossRef (www.crossref.org
), a publishing industry initiative in which
Wiley has played a leadership
role.
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