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iPathwayGuide gives a lot of information on different pathways and how they cross react with each other. For example, if you are neuroscientist or immunologist or something else, you may not pay attention to other pathways that could be involved in some other areas. But you do with this iPathwayGuide.

They put all these pathways together. It can actually trigger your thinking in different directions that you never thought about it before. When you look at cross connection of different pathways, it could make new opportunities for your drug discovery. I think it is essential to have this, yes.

iPathwayGuide is so usable that researchers can actually interact with the data directly. They don’t have to go through a bioinformatic analyst….

If we’ve got a tool that helps those researchers do the research with more independence, that’s the tool that we want everybody to be using.

I really like the visuals. I interact with and collaborate with a lot of people that aren’t bio-statisticians by background. And the way the data is presented to non-specialists is something that allows them to see what’s going on in a very intuitive way.  iPathwayGuide tells them a story.  It is a wonderful story-telling bioinformatics product.

We tend to use open source tools where we can use them. But the open source tools are not evenly supported, their feature set is sometimes unevenly implemented. And, the licensing model of iPathwayGuide works so much better for the way we work with researchers than any of the commercial competitors in this space. So, it beats both freewar and other commercial products.