Who benefits from Sentient™ Products?
The following professionals use Sentient Suite software (non-comprehensive list):

R&D Executive
Sentient makes it possible to run pre-set searches to check on the status of major projects. Report automation may be set to alert for important new information. Reports provide suitable content for executive overview “Dashboards”. Access and share important data that was previously only available to specialized application users. Because Sentient brings information into a common, inter-related environment, create finished, graphics-rich reports more efficiently than ever before.

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Drug Discovery Manager                                 
Track and sign off on data or project status with all of the information for informed decisions. A single search brings all data related, for example, to a particular experiment, to experiment status, or to detailed information contained within your data. Easily search, review and add searchable comments or requests to all related data, including data from special applications that are normally not accessible. Automated support is provided for e-signing, experiment validation and regulatory compliant data management in Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA and 21CFR.11 environments. Be confident that your team’s work is easy to access and review, and is valid and reproducible.

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Molecular Biologist
Take data from every relevant resource - public or in-house- into a common database and analysis environment. Instrument output, image data, analyzed data from reports or text output, web resources are all available within the Sentient environment. Combine this unified environment with Sentient’s built-in search, analysis and annotation tools and to have the ideal environment to do research and to build knowledge. Analyze, search for and define relationships between, for example chemical structure, gene function, proteomics, and metabolomics data. Compare your work to public data resources and annotate your results or searches back onto your data - without leaving the Sentient environment. Easily share your research! With Sentient formerly inaccessible data and aggregated knowledge becomes accessible to your collaborators, protected by security options for each data object. Finally, Report building, even for data from special applications, becomes a simple cut and paste task.

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Biomarker / Diagnostics Researcher                
Sentient makes it possible for you to integrate, manage, analyze and compare your biomarker data. For maker validation and to better understand your target disease profile and lead activity, Sentient allows you to compare your diagnostic markers with all related marker data. You can import, curate and normalize marker information from multiple methods. Create your own annotated, referenced biomarker database - capturing all of your research directly onto the data to improve knowledge building.

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Protein Scientist
Gather and link with a single environment any proteomics-related data set within your workflow into a searchable knowledge base. Gel-based protein identification, their verification with mass spectrometry, sequence, structural and biological information make protein characterization and functional classification within metabolic pathways an easy task - providing comparative insights into complex protein functions. Handle multi-method lab processes with automated sample tracking as well as creating rich proteomics reports from your and public domain data - all within a single user interface.

" IO Informatics' new 2-DE software suite provides enormous value to the scientific community. The integrated object-based desktop environment allows me to manage my entire workflow including linking all related experiments and procedures and to make my work accessible for real-time collaborations with international colleagues. Spot detection and abundance mapping are very fast and accurate and on par with other products on the market. I particularly like the software’s unique ability to compare gels of different sizes, stains, and image formats. In fact, the workspace concept allows me to match histological slides and various other image types as well as gel images. One feature that sets IO Informatics’ software apart is the seamless integration of its analysis package with its database processing functions. Simple point-&-click querying right off of calibrated images retrieves information from over 120 public scientific, medical, regulatory, patent, and literature databases without the need to export data to a separate program. This is a tremendous advantage in relating image data to biological information."

David Garfin, Ph.D.
President, American Electrophoresis Society

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Structural Biologist
Gain insights by integrating structural information with biological function. Relate and link structural modifications in biomolecules to specific changes in binding, activation or inhibition, protein-DNA interactions or metabolic pathway blockage with a unified framework to interact and visualize all aspects of structural biology. Verify models with in-house x-ray crystallography data and validate these against public databases on the web, getting insights and expertise without additional effort. Feedback from animal studies or bioassays gives insights towards a systems biology view of structural relationships.

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Analytical Chemist
With Sentient's searchable metadata index, find synonyms and chemically related compounds quickly. Optimize your synthesis or purification task by comparing it with public chemical databases. Generate a complete set of analytical data, such as IR-, UV-, NMR- or mass spectra to review and analyze every step of your purification or synthesis, recalling all this information by just opening the parent compound. Relate compounds based on their physical or chemical properties or their biological effects to establish an audited, extensible and sharable laboratory notebook - all while maintaining your normal workflow.

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Material Scientist
The Sentient Suite helps the user review material information from diverse methods such as IR, UV, VIS, NMR, ESR spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, calorimetry, GC and LC chromatography in a shared common framework. Through query, physical properties can be related to material defects, providing a knowledge base for material characterization to improve quality and expected characteristics. Through linking of related material properties and functions, the Sentient Suite provides insights into interactions between otherwise unrelated parameters and the ability to reuse your previous expertise and apply it to new material research.

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Laboratory Technician / Data Entry Expert
Simplify data entry, import, curation and updating. Sentient gives you automated process support. Pre-filled forms can be distributed attached to sets of data with a single click. Import data from various sources in batch. The software can be set to provide “Flags” or alerts for data showing deviations from project protocols, for required data entry formats, etc. Sentient can also be set to acquire and categorize data directly from instrumentation. Sentient provides far greater flexibility for acquiring data from multiple data sources than laboratory information management systems (LIMS). Use Sentient along with other database and data entry applications, or consolidate within the Sentient system.

If you work in a data-rich environment, whatever your role is, Sentient software will save you time and simplify your job while improving the quality of your work.

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