More generally, the Life Science/BioMedical Informatics procures solutions useful in different fields helping diagnosis (i. medical imaging, genetics, proteomics) and for this peculiarity it will have a crucial role in the global clinical diagnostics market ensuring faster, automated, easy-to-use and safe solutions.
Besides the software, developed by Pharos Enterprises technicians, the package offering includes the conception and development to third parties of a database for filing and managing data relating to each performed analysis session, different tools for clinical management of patients and related diagnosis. In particular, the software package is suitable for the analysis of 16-bit tiff format images obtained by scanning microarray slides. This is designed for the identification of genetic diseases and any chromosomal number abnormalities (aneuploidy) of DNA in pre-implantation, pre-natal and post-natal genetic fields. Bio-Soft is, in fact, designed for the analysis of arrayCGH images using different DNA samples extracted from many sources, including peripheral blood lymphocytes or fetal blood, oocytes or derived polar bodies and spermatozoa, blastomeres of embryos and any associated biopsy, chorionic villi, amniotic fluid cells, skin, bone marrow, fetal tissues (e.g. lung, liver), solid tumors, and ascites.