Kinexus Bioinformatics Launches Online Proteomics DataBase

Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, a world-leader in molecular intelligence research, announced a major expansion in its KiNET DataBank (http://www.kinexus.ca/ourServices/kinet/kinet.html) for the study of cell communication systems with the launch of the KiNET-Antibody Microarray (KiNET-AM) website. This open access, online resource for the scientific community features over 1.5 million measurements of the levels and phosphorylation status of over 400 distinct protein kinases and their targets in over 2000 tissue and cell specimens. All of the data was generated in-house at Kinexus with its proprietary Kinex™ antibody microarrays with biological samples provided over the last 5 years by over 600 academic and industrial laboratories from around the globe. KiNET-AM complements the KiNET-Immunoblotting (KiNET-IB) DataBase that was first launched in 2005. KiNET-IB contains over 200,000 measurements of protein phosphorylation and expression as determined with Kinexus’ Kinetworks™ Multi-immunoblotting technology. Together, KiNET-AM and KiNET-IB provide the world’s largest repository of semi-quantitative proteomics data with antibody probes.