founder saeid akhtari ilya kupershmidt mostafa ronaghi headquarters cupertino california us area served worldwide key people saeid akhtari president & ceo ilya kupershmidt vp of product management dr. satnam alag vp of engineering number of employees 75 website www.nextbio.com nextbio is a privately owned software company that provides a platform for drug companies and life science researchers to search discover and share knowledge across public and proprietary data . it was co founded by saeid akhtari ilya kupershmidt and mostafa ronaghi in 2004 and based in cupertino california united states . the nextbio platform is an ontology based semantic framework that connects highly heterogeneous data and textual information . the semantic framework is based on gene tissue disease and compound ontologies . this framework contains information from different organisms platforms data types and research areas that is integrated into and correlated within a single searchable environment using proprietary algorithms . it provides a unified interface for researchers to formulate and test new hypotheses across vast collections of experimental data . 1 according to the company the enterprise version of the nextbio platform is being used in life science research and development and drug development by researchers and clinicians at merck pharmaceutical johnson & johnson pharmaceutical research & development l.l.c. celgene genzyme eli lilly and company and regeneron pharmaceuticals . 2 this enterprise version allows internal proprietary data to be uploaded and integrated into the nextbio database of publicly available data . 3 according to the company scientists are using nextbio to improve their ability to identify relevant prognostic and predictive molecular signatures which are significant in their research . 4 nextbio was a receiver of the frost & sullivan north american life sciences customer value enhancement award in 2008 . 5 articles edit business wire march 2007 venture beat february 2007 scientific computing may 2008 references edit bio itworld.com 2007 release nextbio life science search engine advances systems biology approach to research businesswire.com 2008 release nextbio announces public launch of its life science search engine nextbio.com 2008 release nextbio faq nextbio.com 2008 release nextbio testimonials businesswire.com 2008 release nextbio awarded the 2008 frost & sullivan north american life sciences customer value enhancement award for innovative life science search engine retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nextbio & oldid 735011907 categories internet search enginesbioinformaticsonline databaseshealth care companies established in 2004privately held companies based in californiasoftware companies established in 2004 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 18 august 2016 at 03 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view