Aneda & IBM sign Territory Agreement

10th October 2002.  Aneda Ltd (formerly Edinburgh Biocomputing Systems Ltd) is pleased to announce that they have entered into a Territory Agreement with IBM Life Sciences and been awarded PartnerWorld for Developer - Advanced level status. Aneda is the first European Life Sciences company to sign a Territory Agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement Aneda will develop its MPSRCH™ 4 high performance database search and Genome Comparison tools for the IBM eServer, xSeries and pSeries platforms. Both companies will support these implementations as part of an IBM e-business solution.

Aidan Courtney, CEO of Aneda commented: ‘We are delighted to be partnering with IBM. There is a very clear fit between our high performance analysis software and IBM’s processing, storage and middleware solutions.’

Aneda has built its reputation over the last 2 years by pioneering the move away from the need for supercomputers in bioinformatics. MPSRCH™ 4 can now be installed on a range of affordable, general-purpose, scaleable hardware solutions.

Aidan Courtney added: ‘We strongly believe that Linux clusters will become the primary hardware platform for the bioinformatics sector and IBM’s commitment and expertise in this area make them an ideal partner for us.’

For more details visit: www.anedabio.com

 

Aneda and IBM sign Territory Agreement

From left to right: Aidan Courtney, CEO Aneda; Shane Sturrock, CSO Aneda;

Alan Morgan, Business Development Manger, IBM Software; Allison Joynson, EMEA Life Sciences Business Leader, IBM

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