Ludesi Corporation, developer of the award-winning Ludesi Image Analysis Service for 2-dimensional electrophoresis gels, today announced “Ludesi Basic” — a lightweight version of Ludesi’s industry-leading 2D Gel Image Analysis Service that provides better data quality than conventional 2D gel software and comes at a $50.00 USD per gel price level that most researchers, institutions, and organizations can afford. With the introduction of this new offering, Ludesi’s premier 2D Gel Image Analysis Service has been renamed to Ludesi Pro.

Ludesi Basic is a light-weight version of Ludesi’s 2D gel image analysis service that still significantly outperforms other 2D gel software in terms of data quality. Furthermore it is easy to learn, easy to use, and offers a fast turnaround time.

Ludesi Basic is specifically designed to meet the needs and requirements of research groups that need a high discovery potential compared to conventional 2D gel software, but who have budget restrictions that limit their use of the top-of-the-line Ludesi Pro offering. Ludesi Basic is also excellent for certain proteomics experiments where the extensive data quality control of Ludesi Pro might not be fully needed.

“Many researchers, institutions, and corporations are under severe budget pressure. Resources are scarce and research funding is hard to get,” said Ola Forsstrom-Olsson, founder and CEO of Ludesi. “We created Ludesi Basic so that these groups could still do their important proteomics research by using Ludesi’s technologies and service.”

The proteomics industry world-wide is currently at a stage where it is absolutely imperative that researchers be able to get reliable data quality from their experiments. One aspect of this is to establish relevant and functional metrics for data quality that can be used throughout the field. Ludesi is in the process of introducing these metrics. Another important factor to the industry is to make the best analysis technologies affordable to a greater number of researchers. This is the goal for Ludesi Basic.

Ludesi’s 2D gel image analysis technology has been shown to significantly reduce error rate and increase the number of true findings compared to all other 2D gel image analysis software on the market. On average Ludesi’s image analysis has been shown to give a 4-fold increase in number of true findings, and a 40% decrease in error rate.

“Our in-house research has shown that in many analyses done using conventional 2D gel image analysis software a great deal of important scientific information is never found. It is extremely important that scientists have access to the best tools for their research. By making Ludesi’s software technologies available to a broader market, we hope to facilitate just that,” concludes Ola Forsstrom-Olsson.

Key Features of Ludesi Basic

— Leverages Ludesi’s powerful, award-winning 2D Gel Image Analysis Service and Technology.

— Uses the free, downloadable Ludesi REDFIN Image and Data Management software for sending and receiving experiments to and from the Ludesi Analysis Center.

— Experiments can easily be shared or un-shared by clicking on a button using the sharing feature.

— Automatic backup and data storage included.

– – $50.00 USD per gel.

About the Ludesi Image Analysis Service

Ludesi’s award-winning service enables research institutions and biopharmaceutical companies to order reliable 2D gel image analysis on a per-sample basis over the internet. Its REDFIN software features a powerful and intuitive user interface that allows researchers and scientists to quickly and easily view, analyze, and manage results from the Ludesi 2D gel image analysis. Ludesi has also made its service accessible to a broad range of organizations by offering a flexible, pay-per-sample online payment method via credit card. The new REDFIN software is available for free as a download at: www.ludesi.com/download.

About Ludesi Corporation

Ludesi is a global provider of bioinformatics solutions to the life science industry and the first company to offer 2D Gel Image Analysis as a service, reducing turnaround time and labor costs. The company is also first in the industry to offer 2D gel image analysis on a pay-per-sample basis, utilizing a web based, credit card payment system, together with a new and extremely user-friendly image and data management software. Ludesi’s service and technology produces the highest quality results for increasing the number of true positives and reducing the number of false positives in 2D gel image analysis. Further information can be found at www.ludesi.com.

Ludesi is a Registered Trademark of Ludesi AB. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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