Monday, June 2, 2008 –Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that Johns Hopkins University has become the next institution to sign onto Collexis Expertise Profiling System for their entire medical community. The Collexis system creates updated profiles of University researchers based on their publications, grants and/or other associated work. The Collexis Platform was previously adopted across the National Institute of Health and is expected to be fully integrated with BiomedExperts.com, the first pre-populated, scientific social network for life science researchers.
This agreement with Johns Hopkins will create a Clinical Translational Research Platform for the
University’s more than 2,800 medical researchers to connect and share their expertise via an updating
web interface. The agreement represents an expansion of Collexis’ 18 month relationship with Johns
Hopkins University, and will include all researchers from the School of Medicine, School of Nursing and
School of Public Health.
Under the new agreement, Collexis will use its proprietary Fingerprinting process to search text for ideas
and concepts rather than keywords and create Collexis Fingerprints or conceptual maps. The Expert
Profiles will be generated using the Collexis fingerprints of the researchers’ publications from a variety of
sources. Profiles are then available to be viewed and searched by all researchers. The expert profiling
solution for Johns Hopkins is based on Collexis biomedical highly disambiguated expert database, which
is the basis for the life science social networking site www.biomedexperts.com with 1.5 million expert
profiles from researchers and 20 million connections between scientists around the globe.
Read the full press release here.