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Was going through a recent blog on indiblogger about the NASSCOM Product Conclave . Where this time is themed and focused on SAAS & related services. In the recent times SAAS or Software as a Service has even captured the attention of Life Science and biomedical community globally. Indian Life Sciences Informatics Company, Molecular Connections' year old SAAS product startup is www.XTractor.in . In July 2008 came of with a commercial version of the product XTractor Premium- expert curated biomedical discovery, analysis and knowledge modeling platform, based on semantic curation and annotation of biomedical facts from PubMed . Has very handy analytics to search and narrow down the most relevant facts, build and discover relationships between biomedical facts check out some of the user CaseStudies . XTractor Premium knowledgebase currently contains 302,269 relationships categorized on 24 categories Gene-Gene , Gene-Drug , Gene-Disease , Gene-Process , Gene-Mutation/Polymorphis...

Entrez gene is the most widely used data resource for Gene based information worldwide. To enable researchers to obtain high quality manually annotated information from XTractor when they search for a Gene on Entrez Gene, we are now providing direct links from Entrez Gene records to corresponding Gene Reports in XTractor. To use this outlinked option- when in Entrez Gene, for any human gene select the “Link Out” option from the Display menu in Entrez Gene and click on the XTractor link. You will be taken directly to the XTractor graphical report for the Gene of interest and also manually annotated facts on the associated Diseases, Drugs and the Biological Processes for the Gene. http://www.xtractor.in/ncbiSearch.do?xid=XT_15377&symbol=BRCA1 XTractor Premium - A Platform for discovery , knowledge sharing, analysis and modelling of published biomedical facts. The only Knowledgebase which provides "manually" annotated facts from PubMed on a weekly basis Innovati...