Collexis BiomedExperts Fast Approaching 150,000 Registered Users

 

 

Columbia, S.C. - (April 15, 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 blown past the 145,000 registered user mark and will easily surpass 150,000 by the end of April. The unique visitor traffic in March has exploded to over 60,000 per day and surpassed 1.8 million unique visitors in March!


“BiomedExperts continues to grow at a very rapid pace and we are highly confident we will go beyond 200,000 registered life science researchers by the fall,” stated Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis. “Over the next six months we plan to add a number of key features, enhancements and partners to BiomedExperts. Currently, in beta, we are providing our members with weekly alerts of their publications in BiomedExperts as well as new publications within their network. Further this fall, we plan to launch the consumer version of BiomedExperts.com which will allow the global audience to access this life science portal from a healthcare perspective.”

 

“Because the U.S. economic stimulus plan has a significant focus on scientific research, we feel that BiomedExperts will continue to grow as the research community will have an increasing need for effective tools to promote collaboration with other scientists,” states Dr. Christian Herzog, M.D., Managing Director for Collexis STM markets. “BiomedExperts is the supporting foundation for all of Collexis’ key applications including the Collexis Expert Platform for Translational Research connecting over 30,000 researchers from 43 research organizations, including many grantees of the NIH’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).”

 

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 30 million connections made through the site.


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