please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message collabrx inc. nasdaq clrx is a company that offers cloud based expert systems for selecting clinical treatments for molecular diseases such as cancer . its technology revolves around dynamically updated molecular disease models that form the basis of the expert systems . one of the challenges evolving from the recent explosion in biological information is to distill actionable clinically relevant therapy approaches from the vast amount of data available . the knowledgebases that inform the models are updated by a large network of advisors from academic and medical institutions . 1 collabrx is a delaware corporation formed with the formerly named tegal corporation which acquired the privately held company also known as collabrx on july 12 2012 . on september 25 2012 the stockholders amended the charter and assumed the collabrx inc. name . the former tegal corporation was formed in december 1989 to acquire the operations of a division of motorola inc. that previously operated under the tegal name . that company was founded in 1972 and acquired by motorola inc. in 1978 . the independent tegal corporation completed their initial public offering in october 1995 . 2 access to the expert systems is offered under software as a service contracts . a major user of the technology is expected to be dna testing laboratories which hope to translate patient specific genetic characterization to patient specific clinical treatment advice for molecular diseases . current customers include life technologies oncodna 3 and sengenics . 4 other users might include doctors and clinics which deal complex and difficult to treat diseases such as refractory cancers . collabrx sponsors the lung cancer therapy finder 5 on medpagetoday.com to demonstrate its technology . history edit the current corporate entity resulted from the purchase of privately held collabrx inc. by the publicly traded tegal corporation followed by a corporate reorganization and trading symbol change . tegal corporation was a manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems see plasma physics until february 2011 after which it sold off much of its patent portfolio and invested in a variety of ventures including sequel power lower case s nanovibronix and finally collabrx . tegal was originally founded in 1972 by ted gallagher hence its name . the company was acquired by motorola in 1978 and sold some years later . tegal became publicly traded on nasdaq under the ticker symbol tgal before changing its symbol to clrx after the merger with collabrx . collabrx was founded in 2008 by computer scientist jeff shrager silicon valley internet pioneer jay marty tenenbaum 6 and mathematician raphael lehrer . references edit expert affiliations . collabrx inc. retrieved 10 april 2013 . form 10 k. annual report pursuant to section 13 or 15 d of the securities exchange act of 1934 . http secfilings.nasdaq.com . sec . retrieved 26 october 2014 . external link in website help http www.oncodna.com http www.sengenics.com lung cancer therapy finder . collabrx inc. retrieved 10 april 2013 . http www.collabrx.com tegal acquisition of collabrx will bring interpretive content and data analytics to genomics based medicine external links edit official website this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title collabrx & oldid 735840689 categories equipment semiconductor companiescompanies listed on nasdaqunited states software company stubshidden categories cs1 errors external linksarticles needing additional references from may 2013all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles 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 23 august 2016 at 12 54 . 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