About Informatics Unlimited
Informatics Unlimited develops and supports novel informatics solutions for life sciences research and drug discovery.
Our key expertise is in providing and integrating systems for biomedical imaging and cheminformatics.
We have also successfully implemented and deployed innovative systems for other domains like biology or competitive intelligence.
Offerings
Products
Biomedical Image Gateway, our novel product is an extensible Web server for accessing, processing, annotating and serving biomedical images and associated metadata.
It can be used as a standalone imaging platform or to complement other data analysis and visualisation tools.
Services
Specialising in image processing, visualisation and management, cheminformatics and data integration, we work closely with our customers to develop bespoke solutions which overcome bottlenecks and precisely match their complex data management needs.
Combining many years of industry experience with an in-depth understanding of the life sciences R&D sector, we are happy to take on complex projects and explore new ideas.
We deliver advanced solutions to address challenging requirements not served by common software.
Case Study
We collaborate with the team of Prof. Karl Hoffmann from Aberystwyth University to refine image analysis phenotyping of whole organisms for anthelmintic screening and to provide informatics support for their Roboworm platform.
As a part of this engagement, we have created predictive models based on the phenotype of the larval newly excysted juvenile (NEJ) stage of the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica. F. hepatica is responsible for causing the foodborne zoonotic disease, fascioliasis, affecting 2.4 million people globally, and is estimated to result in the loss of livestock equating to >£645M/annum globally.
Biomedical Image Gateway (BIG) was used to perform segmentation of individual NEJs and to calculate various histogram-based, texture and morphological descriptors. A subset of those descriptors was next selected to build an SVM model using R. Moreover the segmented larvae were used to retrain a CNN model using TensorFlow. The work also benefited from a novel method of mosaicing images with limited information content implemented in BIG.
The results were presented by Dr Kezia Whatley on a poster at the 2018 British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting in Aberystwyth, which is available as a PDF here.
Management
Informatics Unlimited Ltd was founded and is currently managed by Dr Jaroslaw (Jarek) Tomczak who has spent most of his professional life developing scientific and enterprise applications for Life Science industry (more on LinkedIn).
LEGAL INFORMATION
Company Reg No: 8597702
VAT Reg No: GB 167 1692 84