Collexis BiomedExperts Hits 80,000 Registered Users Within the First Year

 

COLUMBIA, S.C.  – (January 7, 2009) – Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that their life science research portal www.BiomedExperts.com has surpassed 80,000 registered users.  The unique visitor traffic in December has exploded to over 60,000 per day and surpassed 1.4 million unique visitors in December! 

 

“We are very pleased with the user registration growth of BiomedExperts as well as the accolades that we are receiving from the industry”, stated Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Holdings, Inc. “As our user registration base grows along with our page views, BiomedExperts is poised to become the industry standard for life science researchers. We are looking forward to the future releases of BiomedExperts and the launch of new portals across the other scientific disciplines and industries.”

 

Research and advisory firm Outsell, Inc. selected BiomedExperts as one of the top 10 social communities to watch in 2009, in its report “Social Media in STM Part 1: Social Networking” (http://www.outsellinc.com/store/products/792?refid=prcol792).  A recent Elsevier study found after only seven months post launch, BiomedExperts was the second most frequently used life science social network behind Nature but ahead of Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.  Also the launch announcement of BiomedExperts was the # 1 headline on the eHealthNews.EU news portal for 2008.

 

Pre-populated with over 1.8 million Pub-Med-based expert profiles, BiomedExperts allows scientists and researchers to directly connect with and explore their own professional contacts, grow their networks and identify researchers with the expertise needed for future collaborations.  Through user-friendly search interfaces, potential research collaborators can share data and collaborate with professionals from more than 1,800 organizations and institutions from 137 countries, totaling more than 21 million connections

made through the site.

 

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