Knowledge management and discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc., US, has announced a partnership with Florida's statewide bioscience association, BioFlorida, Inc., to promote BiomedExperts.com to the association's more than 200 members. Under the deal, BiomedExperts.com will serve as the primary professional network for BioFlorida, helping to facilitate collaboration and advance scientific discovery among its member researchers.
BiomedExperts.com claims to be the world's first literature-based professional social networking site that was pre-populated with more than 1.8 million expert profiles from PubMed. The site allows scientists and researchers to directly connect with and explore their professional contacts, grow their networks and identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations. With over 60,000 registered users worldwide, BiomedExperts.com provides user-friendly interfaces through which research collaborators can share data and network with 1,800 organisations and institutions from 137 countries.
Collexis develops applications that range from search tools for users' websites to highly sophisticated discovery applications that are utilised by the intelligence community and R&D organisations worldwide. These applications allow users to identify and search for documents, experts, trends or new discoveries that may be hidden in the materials.
