Bio-IT World Judges, Community Honor Six Outstanding New Products
Summary
The new products awards program, which has not been held since 2019, recognizes innovative solutions to important problems facing the life sciences industry. The judges chose to honor CellPort Cell Culture Suite, Cerebras CS-2 Artificial Intelligence System, Mastermind Disease-Specific Curated Content from Genomenon, Modak Nabu 2.5, CENtree 2.1 from SciBite, and—echoing the vote of confidence from the Bio-IT World community—Memory Machine from MemVerge. Mastermind Disease-Specific Curated Content (DSCC) is a new and novel capability that solves the challenges described above by providing access to provisional pathogenicity calls and evidence for variant interpretation that is initially gathered through AI-based techniques to ensure maximal completeness of the data, and then manually reviewed by expert variant scientists to ensure the utmost accuracy of the final determinations. Users see a provisional pathogenicity call (based on ACMG criteria), along with a link to a trusted source for additional information about the disease. As a SaaS solution, CENtree is secure and simple to deploy, Professional Services support integrations, ontology curation and advice.