Company Profile: BluePen Biomarkers LLC – Integrated Biomarker Solutions

Overview

Journal Future Sci OA

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2016 Dec 30

PMID 28031971

Authors

Ian A Blair

Clementina Mesaros

Patrick Lilley

Matthew Nunez

Affiliations

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Abstract

BluePen Biomarkers provides a unique comprehensive multi-omics biomarker discovery and validation platform. We can quantify, integrate and analyze genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics biomarkers, alongside clinical data, demographics and other phenotypic data. A unique bio-inspired signal processing analytic approach is used that has the proven ability to identify biomarkers in a wide variety of diseases. The resulting biomarkers can be used for diagnosis, prognosis, mechanistic studies and predicting treatment response, in contexts from core research through clinical trials. BluePen Biomarkers provides an additional groundbreaking research goal: identifying surrogate biomarkers from different modalities. This not only provides new biological insights, but enables least invasive, least-cost tests that meet or exceed the predictive quality of current tests.

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