COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Collexis Holdings Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and
knowledge discovery software, announced today that Johns Hopkins University
(JHU) has put the institution's Collexis Expertise Portal online
( http://www.institutionaldashboard.collexis.com/jhu ). The portal is a public
website where individuals can search, sort, or view compiled views of the
research conducted by JHU and its faculty.
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"Collexis' technology is adding significant support to the way Johns
Hopkins collects internal and external information and shares it among key
researchers, alumni, donors, collaborators and corporate sponsors," said Bill
Kirkland, Chief Executive Officer of Collexis. "Traditional online resume or
expert directories require researchers to input and update their own
information. Our experience is that these systems are incomplete, and the
material they do include is often not updated. Collexis, however, builds
profiles for each Johns Hopkins researcher automatically. When a researcher
has a new paper published, the system updates their profile overnight
- meaning our information stays current."
The Collexis approach has become popular with research intensive
institutions like the National Institutes of Health that want to have a
complete system to identify potential partnerships, translational research
projects, or other unique connections between research experts.
To date, most institutions have limited their systems to internal
collaborations. Johns Hopkins University has elected to give public access to
help promote relationships and translational research with other partnering
institutions in the public and private sector. JHU has also contracted with
Collexis for an ongoing search engine optimization project designed to make
Johns Hopkins researchers more widely read and identified online through
search engines like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google.
For more information, visit http://www.researchprofiles.collexis.com/jhu
and http://www.institutionaldashboard.collexis.com/jhu .
About Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic search and
knowledge discovery software is headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina
(USA) with operations in Cincinnati, Ohio and Cologne, Germany. Collexis now
offers the world's first pre-populated scientific social network for life
science researchers, www.biomedexperts.com. Collexis' proprietary technology
builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents,
Websites, emails and other digitized content and matches them with a
comprehensive list of pre-defined "fingerprinted" concepts to make research
results more relevant and efficient. This matching of concepts eliminates the
ambiguity and lack of priority associated with word searches. The results are
often described as "finding needles in many haystacks." Through this novel
approach, Collexis can build unique applications to search, index and
aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend and predict data based on
sources in multiple industries without the limitations of language or dialect.
Collexis' current clients in the public, private and academic sectors include
the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the
University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina;
Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World
Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health; and
the U.S. Department of Defense. Shares of Collexis common stock are traded
under the symbol CLXS on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC BB). For more
information, visit www.collexis.com.
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Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's
current expectations and include known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
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may cause the company's actual results or performance to differ materially
from any future results or performance expressed or implied by such forward-
looking statements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties,
including risks and uncertainties associated with the company's collaboration
with Johns Hopkins University. These risks and uncertainties are in addition
to other factors detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the
SEC, including the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its transition report on
Form 10-K for the period ended June 30, 2008. The company cautions investors
that any forward-looking statements made by the company are not necessarily
indicative of future performance. The company is not responsible for updating
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