Research and Markets Releases New Semantic Healthcare Database

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) have announced the
addition of a new semantic healthcare database to its portfolio.

The Maven Semantic data tools have been used to create a database of detailed
profiles of life science companies and executives.

The current database holds over 5 million healthcare executives, and 500,000
healthcare organisations. It covers pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device
companies, clinical research labs, hospitals, medical universities and
government organisations.

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

Research and Markets are utilising the database to source new leads for their
existing portfolio of healthcare market research. From April 2009, the data will
also be available to international healthcare marketing teams.

Maven Semantic 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".

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 inhouse use.

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

About Research and Markets

Research and Markets are a leading source for international market research and
market data. R&M hold over 380,000 major research publications from most of the
world`s leading publishers, consultants and analysts. Research and Markets
provide clients with the latest data on international and regional markets, key
industries, the top companies, new products and the latest trends. Research and
Markets are a `One-Stop-Shop` for market research reports and industry
newsletters from specialist research firms and niche market analysts.

Research and Markets Life Science Clients Include:

Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Solvay, Philips Healthcare, Affymetrix, Siemens
AG, Merck, Abbott Laboratories, Roche, Novartis, US Food and Drug
Administration, Stryker, Cardinal Health, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, GE
Healthcare, Bayer, Becton Dickinson, Nycomed, Agilent Technologies, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Alkermes, Astellas,
Sanofi Aventis, Cisco, IMS Healthcare, AstraZeneca, Genentech, Medtronic, 3M
Drug Delivery, Carl Zeiss, Biogen Idec, Centre for Disease Control, McKesson,
Cold Spring Harbor Lab, St. Jude Medical...

For details on access to the Maven Semantic healthcare database please contact:

Bryan McManmon at bryan.mcmanmon@researchandmarkets.net

Research and Markets
Bryan McManmon
bryan.mcmanmon@researchandmarkets.net
Fax from USA: 646-607-1907
Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716

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