High definition search development company Collexis Holdings, Inc. have
launched a new social network that will promote collaborative medical research and development.
BioMedExperts officially launched today, the 11th of January 2008, and was built in collaboration with computer giant, Dell.
Collexis formed an agreement with Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences, who provided the computer hardware for the site and will also support the marketing efforts.
James Coffin, Ph.D., vice president and general manager of Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences comments, "The ability for researchers to collaborate across scientific disciplines is becoming more and more critical. By connecting biologists, chemists, clinical researchers and other scientists from across the globe, BioMedExperts can play a key role in enabling a new wave of modern science and have tremendous impact on progress in biomedical research."
BioMedExperts will allow life science professionals to connect with each other, share data, collaborate more efficiently and conduct deep research across thousands of sources.
?Where first generation social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn require users to enter data, BioMedExperts is a life science open platform that goes to the next level ? it continuously captures the research activity of experts worldwide, serving as a definitive source to identify relationships to others within the community, either by topic or geography,? said Bill Kirkland, CEO of
Collexis.
BioMedExperts has taken the interesting step of identifying its global target audience and pre-generating profiles for over 1.4 milion potential users. It expects to grow the profiles in excess of two million over the coming months. In their FAQs, they explain in more detail how users profiles were created. "Profiles in BioMedExperts (BME) are generated by extracting and assigning the biomedical concepts from an article to the authors and co-authors that are listed with the published article. We have done this on six million scientific publications from over 6,500 journals."
It goes on to say that users can update and modify their profile but says nothing of how they can delete the profile if they do not wish to partake in the community. With the recent scrutiny on social networks regarding users privacy, this may not turn out to be the draw card that BioMedExperts were aiming for.
BioMedExperts is based on Collexis? Fingerprint technology, an enterprise research tool that serves as the basis of search and retrieval solutions and is the first of a series of professionally based social networks the company plans to launch.