Biomedexperts News
January 7, 2009
Collexis BiomedExperts Hits 80,000 Registered Users Within the First Year! BiomedExperts.com chosen by Outsell, Inc. as a Community to Watch in 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C.
Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBulletinBoard: CLXS) , a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that their life science research portal http://www.BiomedExperts.com has surpassed 80,000 registered users. The unique visitor traffic in December has exploded to over 60,000 per day and surpassed 1.4 million unique visitors in December!
"We are very pleased with the user registration growth of BiomedExperts as well as the accolades that we are receiving from the industry," stated Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Holdings, Inc. "As our user registration base grows along with our page views, BiomedExperts is poised to become the industry standard for life science researchers. We are looking forward to the future releases of BiomedExperts and the launch of new portals across the other scientific disciplines and industries."
Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. selected BiomedExperts as one of the top 10 social communities to watch in 2009, in its report "Social Media in STM Part 1: Social Networking" (http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/792?refid=prcol792). A recent Elsevier study found after only seven months post launch, BiomedExperts was the second most frequently used life science social network behind Nature but ahead of Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. Also the launch announcement of BiomedExperts was the #1 headline on the eHealthNews.EU news portal for 2008.
Pre-populated with over 1.8 million Pub-Med-based expert profiles, BiomedExperts allows scientists and researchers to directly connect with and explore their own professional contacts, grow their networks and identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations. Through user-friendly search interfaces, potential research collaborators can share data and collaborate with professionals from more than 1,800 organizations and institutions from 137 countries, totaling more than 21 million connections made through the site.
March 14, 2008
Collexis Unveils Enhanced Services for Premier Online Scientific Social Network Community, BioMedExperts
COLUMBIA, S.C.
Collexis Holdings Inc. announced today website enhancements to BioMedExperts.com, the first online social network of its kind that promotes global collaborative medical research and development.
The initiative is the result of an agreement in which Collexis developed the knowledge discovery solutions and text mining applications for BioMedExperts and Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences provided the hardware and continued marketing support for the site. To help BioMedExperts.com users explore and expand their scientific networks, Collexis have added several new features to the site, including:
- Expansion of available publication data back to 1980 (from 1996 in Version 1.0)
- Four million new connections, bringing the total to more than 21 million connections
- A new directory of more than 1,800 organizations and institutions from 137 countries
- Public profiles - Non-registered users will have access to 1.4 million basic profiles
- Improved features to identify and invite colleagues in your network
Additional enhancements are planned over the next three months so that users may continue to grow their professional networks, identify researchers with necessary expertise for future collaboration and analyze the profiles and published research of scientists across the globe.
January 10, 2008
DELL AND COLLEXIS COLLABORATE TO LAUNCH BIOMEDEXPERTS, A PREMIER ONLINE SCIENTIFIC SOCIAL NETWORK COMMUNITY BioMedExperts.com Harnesses Power of Online Communities to Promote Scientific Research
Round Rock, Texas
- Dell and Collexis Holdings, Inc., plan to launch Jan. 11 BioMedExperts - an innovative social networking community that will promote collaborative medical research and development.
- BioMedExperts will allow health care and life sciences professionals to easily connect and collaborate with each other, as well as conduct research by providing 1.4 million biomedical experts with 12 million pre-established network connections from more than 150 countries. The site also provides the ability to analyze all associated professional connections within the network and view scientific publications.
- As part of the initiative, Dell will provide computer hardware to power the Collexis-designed BioMedExperts. Dell will also provide marketing support for BioMedExperts, including co-branded marketing efforts and promotions at major life science research conferences.
"Dell believes connecting biomedical scientists through online communities will drive true innovation and progress and is critical to the future of biomedical research. BioMedExperts is a cutting-edge tool that can link researchers from around the globe and enable this new level of collaboration," said James Coffin, Ph.D., vice president and general manager, Dell Health Care and Life Sciences. "The Collexis technology and the BioMedExperts professional community is an example of how technology can connect scientists, enabling them to attack new and more complex cross-disciplinary biological problems. This next-generation professional network platform is a prime example of how Dell works with the world's most innovative technology companies to drive thought leadership and leading-edge research collaboration."
January 11, 2008
Collexis' New Online Social Network, BioMedExperts, to Improve Collaboration Among Medical Researchers Site Launches with 1.4 Million Pre-Generated Expert Profiles
Columbia, S.C.
Collexis Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced the debut of BioMedExperts (http://www.biomedexperts.com) -- the first online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers and therefore advance medical science. Collexis launched the new service with more than 1.4 million pre-generated profiles of its expected users from across 120 countries and it is expected to grow by two million profiles over the next few months.
"Where first generation social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn require users to enter data, BioMedExperts is a life science open platform that goes to the next level - it continuously captures the research activity of experts worldwide, serving as a definitive source to identify relationships to others within the community, either by topic or geography," said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis.
When researchers log on to the service, which is entirely free, they will have access to approximately 12 million pre-established network connections, automatically generated from more than 6 million scientific publications from 6,500 journals. BioMedExperts encompasses almost every published researcher in the biomedical sciences field worldwide.
