QIAGEN Digital Insights Expands Biopharma Collaboration with Neo4j to advance Biomedical Data Analysis
- New agreement brings leaders in biomedical knowledge solutions and knowledge graph technologies together to aid biopharmaceutical industry in analytics-driven drug discovery
- QIAGEN Digital Insights bring over 25 years of expertise in biomedical data content curation for biological discovery
- Neo4j brings expertise in knowledge graphs, graph algorithms and ML tools enhanced with GraphRAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to enable greater insights and quicker time-to-market for customers
Redwood City, California – QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI), the bioinformatics business of QIAGEN and the leading provider of bioinformatics software and biomedical knowledge content, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Neo4j®, the world’s leading graph database and analytics company. The collaboration will enable Neo4j Graph Database and Graph Data Science capabilities to integrate more deeply with the QIAGEN Biomedical Knowledge Base (BKB) product line, unlocking hidden patterns and relationships in biomedical data, and revealing powerful new insights to advance drug discovery, drug repurposing and translational research.
Sudhir Hasbe, Chief Product Officer at Neo4j, commented: “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with QIAGEN Digital Insights, which has been at the forefront of using graph technology within life sciences. As we develop new ways to integrate and enhance the QIAGEN biomedical knowledge graph, we are confident that together we will unlock new possibilities for biopharma companies, driving innovation and improving patient outcomes.”
The partnership will focus on enhancing solutions and integrating new technologies that complement each company’s biopharma portfolio. This strategic approach will ensure that biopharma customers have access to the most cutting-edge tools for navigating and analyzing complex biological data.
About QIAGEN Digital Insights
QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI), the bioinformatics business of QIAGEN, is the leading provider of genomic and clinical knowledge, analysis and interpretation tools and services for scientists and clinicians. QDI has over 25 years of experience in the industry, 90,000 users worldwide, over 100,000 citations in scientific papers, more than 3 million profiled patient cases, and over 40 billion scientific data points. The portfolio includes expertly curated genomic and clinical knowledge solutions as well as bioinformatics software and services for efficient data management, sharing and actionable insights. Learn more at https://digitalinsights.qiagen.com/.
About QIAGEN
QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is the leading global provider of Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to gain valuable molecular insights from samples containing the building blocks of life. Our sample technologies isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies make these biomolecules visible and ready for analysis. Bioinformatics software and knowledge bases interpret data to report relevant, actionable insights. Automation solutions tie these together in seamless and cost-effective workflows. QIAGEN provides solutions to more than 500,000 customers around the world in Molecular Diagnostics (human healthcare) and Life Sciences (academia, pharma R&D and industrial applications, primarily forensics). As of June 30, 2024, QIAGEN employed more than 5,900 people in over 35 locations worldwide. Further information can be found at http://www.qiagen.com.
About Neo4j
Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledge graphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture, and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com.
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