Insilicos is a

life science Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, respon ...

software company founded in 2002 by Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen. Insilicos develops scientific computing software to provide software for disease diagnoses.

Technology

Insilicos' key technologies includes

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

techniques to interpret

proteomics Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital macromolecules of all living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replicatio ...

mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is used ...

data. Insilicos products include InsilicosViewer and Insilicos Proteomics Pipeline (IPP). These products support the mzXML, mzDATA and mzML file formats. In 2007, Insilicos received a grant from the

National Human Genome Research Institute The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is an institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. NHGRI began as the Office of Human Genome Research in The Office of the Director in 1988. This Office transi ...

to further develop software allowing for studies to be conducted more quickly. The open-source software, developed in connection with the Institute for Systems Biology, has been referred to as the Trans Proteomic Pipeline. IPP is commercial version of the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline

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