improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . april 2012 this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message astridbio inc. type privately held company industry bioinformatics software founder dr. zsolt torok headquarters toronto area served worldwide products smartbiobank disease discovery suites genominer website astridbio inc. astridbio inc. is a privately held bioinformatics company with offices in canada luxembourg and hungary . astridbio s focus is biobanking software development data management and analysis for genomics research . its clients include academic research institutes pharmaceutical and biotech companies who are seeking comprehensive it solutions for diagnostic marker and therapeutic target identification . contents 1 products 2 services 3 projects 4 see also 5 references 6 external links products edit smartbiobank is a free online biobank software designed to help clinicians lab biologists and researchers to integrate translational research elements into one single system . smartbiobank can store manage and analyze biospecimen data clinical data as well as experimental data . it supports the establishment of population or clinical biobanks as well as patient registries . disease discovery suites are based on the type of disease that is the focus of the investigation chronic rare malignant and infectious diseases . the purpose of the suites is the biological interpretation of structured ngs data assisting the researcher in revealing the genetic background of diseases or providing an answer to related research questions . genominer is high performance 1 it platform for next generation sequencing data analysis for biologists with or without it background . services edit astridbio has extensive experience in the following fields 2 bioinformatics biostatistics data analysis and data mining for high throughput omics data including genomics transcriptomics epigenomics metagenomics proteomics metabolomics biobank systems for large scale data gathering data integration visualization and data interpretation projects edit astridbio has already been involved in many european research projects 3 my health avatar is an attempt at a proof of concept for the digital representation of patient health status . it is designed as a lifetime companion for individual citizens that will facilitate the collection of and access to long term health status information . this will be extremely valuable for clinical decisions and offer a promising approach to acquire population data to support clinical research leading to strengthened multidisciplinary research excellence in supporting innovative medical care . 4 metagenome analysis of moss associated microbiome project s aim is to explore and analyze the ecology of the area specific community composition the alpine bog with the help of metagenomic approaches using ngs technology . bioreq model requirements for the management of biological repositories is a comprehensive guideline which covers the full range of research and operation activities applicable to biological repositories or biobanks . 5 6 drscreen developing a computer based image processing system for diabetic retinopathy screening project s aim is to develop an automated image analysing system for retinopathy screening ophthalmological application . schizo biobank based biomarker discovery and molecular mechanism research to support antipsychotic drug development project s aim is to develop biomarkers and methods to support rationalize and accelerate the discovery and development of novel drugs for the treatment of psychotic disorders . as a result more effective drugs with fewer side effects than the existing ones can be put on the market . joint research on melanoma therapy project s aim is to develop a state of the art bioinformatics tool to predict and optimize the expression profile and the behavioural pattern of the target melanoma cells effecting rna based vectors and to determine optimized rna based vectors for melanoma vaccination using the bioinformatic tool developed . immunomodulation and direct targeting of signaling pathways in malignant melanoma are promising directions in melanoma therapy research . see also edit list of bioinformatics companies astridbio s website references edit http astridbio.com genominer.html http astridbio.com publications.html http astridbio.com collaborations.html http www.myhealthavatar.eu http bioreq.astridbio.com bioreq v2.0.pdf tukacs e ; korotij a ; maros szabo z ; molnar am ; hajdu a ; torok z 2012 . model requirements for biobank software systems . bioinformation . 8 290 2 . doi 10.6026 97320630008290 . pmc 3321242 . pmid 22493540 . external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title astridbio & oldid 720349501 categories bioinformaticsbioinformatics softwarehidden categories orphaned articles from april 2012all orphaned articlesarticles needing additional references from september 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 may 2016 at 09 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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