Your Favorite Gene

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced that Sigma-Aldrich, an Endeca customer and leading Life Science and High Technology company, has been honored with a 2009 CIO 100 award. Awarded at the conclusion of last week’s annual CIO 100® Symposium, Sigma-Aldrich has been recognized for its pioneering and innovative Web research tool, Your Favorite Gene, powered by Ingenuity. A powerful biological search tool, Your Favorite Gene provides scientists access to dynamic gene-based content that they can use to model and evaluate prospective experiments in the context of previously published scientific literature.

“Your Favorite Gene and other Sigma-Aldrich online tools have helped establish us as a premiere resource where life science researchers can effectively access information that allows them to better understand complex biological systems,” said Carl Turza, chief information officer of Sigma-Aldrich. “By partnering with industry-leading vendors like Endeca, we have created an online presence designed to guide users to the content most relevant for their unique needs – no matter where that content may be. And in doing so, users are also discovering additional information they were not previously aware of that can help them improve business decisions.”

As biological data continues to expand, scientists need access to a dynamic, focused resource that contains the latest scientific information. Your Favorite Gene is significantly different from the static search options common among life-science product providers because it enables researchers to search by gene, protein, function, disease, species, tissue, or pathway to access a database of historical and cutting-edge research findings and biological information. From an initial search on the site, simple navigation allows for exploration of broader networks, providing insight into pathway interactions. Users can also model prospective experiments, which bases its models on published scientific literature.

“Sigma-Aldrich is on the cutting edge of how organizations are leveraging the latest advancements we’ve made in search and information access to engage their online audiences with a highly dynamic, interactive user experience,” said Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca. “As one of CIO Magazine’s top 100 honorees, Sigma-Aldrich demonstrates the power and benefits of solving specific business problems with search applications that decrease time-to-results and create greater value than any alternative.”

About Sigma-Aldrich

Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other high technology manufacturing. The Company has customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals, and in industry. Over one million scientists and technologists use its products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 38 countries and has 7,800 employees providing excellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to Accelerating Customer Success through Innovation and Leadership in Life Science, High Technology, and Service. For more information about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit its award-winning Web site at http://www.sigma-aldrich.com.

About the CIO 100

The recipients of this year’s CIO 100 awards were selected through a three-step process. First, companies filled out an online application form detailing their innovative practices in both business and IT. Next, a team of judges reviewed the applications in depth, looking for unique practices and substantial results. Finally, CIO editors reviewed the judges’ recommendations and voted on the final 100. Once the top 100 honorees were selected, several honorees were chosen to receive an additional special award.

About Endeca

Endeca is a leading provider of search applications. Search applications built on Endeca’s technology deliver the clearest visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for our customers. Powering these solutions is Endeca’s Information Access Platform, a major enterprise search innovation based on a fundamentally new architecture for building high-ROI applications that let users access any data from anywhere any way they need it. With this improved information visibility, customers make better choices, and employees better decisions. More than 250 million end users around the world access information through Endeca solutions, which are in use at more than 600 leading organizations including: ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford Motor Company, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, the Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, and Walmart.com.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Endeca has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information: endeca.com or [email protected].