Insilicos

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| foundation = 2002

| founder = Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen

| location_city = Seattle, Washington

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| industry = Software, life science

| products = Insilicos Proteomics Pipeline

InsilicosViewer

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Insilicos is a life science software company founded in 2002 by Erik Nilsson, Brian Pratt and Bryan Prazen. Insilicos develops scientific computing software to provide software for disease diagnoses.

Technology

Insilicos' key technologies includes pattern recognition techniques to interpret proteomics mass spectrometry data. Insilicos products include InsilicosViewer and Insilicos Proteomics Pipeline (IPP). These products support the mzXML, mzDATA and mzML file formats.{{cite journal | title=A Common Open Representation of Mass Spectrometry Data and its Application to Proteomics Research| journal=Nature Biotechnology| year=2004| volume=22| pages=1459–1466 | doi=10.1038/nbt1031 | author=Pedrioli, Patrick G A | pmid=15529173 | issue=11| s2cid=25734712}} In 2007, Insilicos received a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to further develop software allowing for studies to be conducted more quickly.{{Cite web|url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/120910.asp|title=Insilicos Works with Amazon, ISB on Biotech Service|access-date=March 5, 2008|date=August 30, 2007|author=John Cook|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer}} The open-source software, developed in connection with the Institute for Systems Biology, has been referred to as the Trans Proteomic Pipeline.{{Cite web|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/business/329779_tbrfs31.html|title=Insilicos Gets $1 Million Grant for Software Project|access-date=March 5, 2008|date=August 30, 2007|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer}} IPP is commercial version of the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline

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