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Scimagix Inc.

Scimagix is developing an information informatics system that can store, transmit and manipulate small images at high speeds and high resolutions, making it appropriate for research, as well as clinical applications.

Advanced software databases and on-line tools have had a major impact on research and development in science. Yet up to 70% of experimental data generated in pharmaceutical and life science laboratories consists of images, rather than letters and numbers. Current methods of data-mining don't suit the unstructured content found in images, and therefore their utility in research is limited. The only alternative has been to manually extract and record visual information, but this is time-consuming, subjective and incomplete.

Scimagix Inc. makes visual information retrieval technologies that allow users to consolidate vast amounts of unorganized images into a...

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