LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Matrix Science today introduced Mascot Insight, a powerful softwareplatform for organizing, visualizing, and comparing proteomics datasets derived from mass spectrometry results. Leveraging the MascotServer search engine for protein identification, Mascot Insightenables meaningful conclusions to be drawn about changes within orbetween biological samples. The platform will address the needs ofresearchers in academia and biopharmaceutical companies with goalsranging from elucidation of cellular processes to biomarker discoveryand validation.

“One of the great challenges in proteomics research is the very largeamount of data generated by modern mass spectrometers, with a singleexperiment creating hundreds of gigabytes of raw data,” stated JohnCottrell of Matrix Science. “Mascot Insight can capture theassociated Mascot search and quantitation results, organize them, andthen allow the researcher to rapidly analyse and query them –ultimately speeding the discovery and development process.”

Results can be represented in a folder structure designed by theuser. Results and sets of results can be annotated, combined, thenviewed as tabular and graphical reports, and exported in machinereadable formats. The software is user installed on a server running64-bit Microsoft Windows and is accessed from other computers on thelocal area network using a web browser.

About Matrix Science

Matrix Science is a privately owned software company providingproducts and services to proteomics researchers and scientists. TheCompany has been in business for 15 years and has customers worldwidein biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and governmentlaboratories. The search engine from Matrix Science, Mascot Server,is firmly established as the standard for protein identification. Itprovides sensitive and confident results when used with data frominstruments made by AB Sciex, Agilent, Bruker, Shimadzu, ThermoScientific, and Waters. In addition Mascot Distiller offerscomprehensive support for both label-free and stable isotope-basedquantitation, including SILAC, iTRAQ, and TMT. The company is basedin London, UK, and has offices in Boston MA, USA and Tokyo, Japan.Matrix Science products are represented in Taiwan by Mass SolutionsTechnology and in China by CloudScientific Technology Co. Ltd.

For further information, please visit www.matrixscience.com

Mascot is a registered trademark of Matrix Science Limited. All othertrademarks are hereby acknowledged.

Contact:

John Cottrell

Phone: 44 (20) 7486 1050

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