BioPortfolio – the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical device, diagnostic and life science portal.

What is BioPortfolio?

BioPortfolio is a leading news, information and knowledge resource covering the global life science industries impacted on by biotechnology. The site aims to provide the lay person, the researcher and the management executive with a single location to source core information on specific bio-related topics, to collate relevant data associated with each topic and to point the user to relevant knowledge resources.

We publish up to the minute news and regularly update content across our information databases.

BioPortfolio By The Numbers:

• X million page views per month
• X thousand unique visitors per month
• X press releases posted daily
• 100,000 medical terms
• 30,000 companies
• 300,000 genes
• X thousand press releases
• 90,000 clinical trials
• 6,000 drugs
• ‘000’s rss feed subscribers

Why is BioPortfolio Doing This?

When the BioPortfolio site was launched in February 1997 the company aimed to provide a global free-to-use resource with agreed aims and mission statement:

"to meet the increasing demand of consumers, scientists, investors, commerce and government for timely, accurate and commercially useful information and intelligence on biotechnology companies, technologies and products world-wide."

This mission statement remains unchanged but over the last decade we have made major investments and improvements to the site to broaden our content and to apply the latest web technologies to enhance functionality and site utility.

With this unique depth and breadth of content BioPortfolio is supporting individuals, organizations and policy-makers to become more aware of the role of biotechnology on the global economy.

We hope you – the users – find the site of value for both personal and professional reasons. Please enjoy this free resource!

Biotechnology – background

"Any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use." UN definition of biotechnology.

A series of derived terms are used to identify the main applications of biotechnology:

Blue biotechnology - marine and aquatic applications. The development of genetically –modified salmon that grow at twice the normal rate.

Green biotechnology - agricultural processes. The development of genetically-modified plants (GMO plants) designed to tolerate specific herbicides (eg glyphostae) or resist insects, diseases or viruses. Future developments may include improvements in nutrition, drought tolerance and the development of edible vaccines.

Red biotechnology - medical processes. The designing of organisms to produce antibiotics and the engineering of genetic cures through genetic manipulation. Other promising applications include:

•   drug production
•   pharmacogenomics
•   gene therapy
•   genetic testing
•   gene mapping

White biotechnology - applied to industrial processes. The designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical or using novel enzymes as industrial catalysts to either produce valuable chemicals or destroy hazardous/polluting chemicals.

Bioinformatics - addresses biological problems using computational techniques and makes the rapid organization and analysis of biological data possible. Bioinformatics plays a key role in various areas, such as functional genomics, structural genomics, and proteomics, and forms a key component in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector.

The rationale behind the BioPortfolio portal - Five Ws (and one H)

Using the maxim of the Five Ws (information) and one H (knowledge) the BioPortfolio site aims to provide the user with single-click functionality to drill-down on a specific topic associated by biotechnology:

  

• Who? Who are the companies and organizations that are developing and applying biotechnology. (Corporate DB,Clinical Trials DB, Pubmed DB, Drugs DB)
• What? What are these companies and organizations developing? (InDepth, Clinical Trials, Drug DB)
• Where? Where are these companies and organizations based? (Corporate DB)
• When? When did these developments occur? (News, Clinical Trials DB)
• Why? Why are these companies and organizations developing these technologies and products? (InDepth DB, Gene DB)
• How? How are these companies and organizations using biotechnology? (Clinical Trials DB, Drugs DB, Products DB)  

The site uses a proprietary algorithm to match database content and present the resulting cross-matching information by relevance. Our aim is to provide the user with core information as well as additional knowledge based on the uniqueness of the information provided and unique relationships resulting from the database integration.

Corporate data

www.bioportfolio.com, www.bioportfolio.co.uk and www.bioportfolio.net and are published by BioPortfolio Limited, a private company registered in England, Company No. 3312883. BioPortfolio Limited launched its first site - www.bioportfolio.com on the 7th February 1997, www.bioportfolio.co.uk in February 2001 and www.bioportfolio.net on September 10th 2010.