Comprehensive, current, and high-quality data is essential for effective research. You get all of this with a subscription to Pathway Studio!  Pathway Studio uniquely connects users to information from the literature as well as to alternative sources of content and reference information.

Unlike efforts to manually collect and curate scientific data, Ariadne has focused on the development of MedScan® Technology, its core platform technology.  Advantages of MedScan Technology are:

• Complete: comprehensive scope of collateral that can be processed,
• Accurate: eliminates reader bias and bias in the knowledge collected, and
• Malleable, to accomodate emergence of new science and new facts.

MedScan software "reads" literature and retrieves information, much as a human would but much faster, and with much greater consistency.  Ariadne can process all the information in MedLine rapidly, and by changing rules and patterns, Ariadne can produce fresh, compelling sets of data.  Our statistical program of quality improvement, applied over five years, has made MedScan an industry leader.  You get current, comprehensive, and high-quality data with every knowledgebase produced by Ariadne!

A subscription to Pathway Studio includes access to one of the following ResNet Databases:

• ResNet Mammalian, a protein-centric knowledgebase for the study of human, mouse, and rat biology.
• ResNet Plant, a protein-centric knowledgebase for the study of plants.

Subscribers can add to their subscription, "premium data sets" including:

• ChemEffect, a compound-centric database for the study of the effects of drugs, biologics, and environmental chemicals on biological systems,
• DiseaseFx, a disease-centric database for the study of the molecular cause and effects of disease on cellular processes, and
• Prolexys HyNet, high-quality Y2H protein interaction database (available exclusively through Ariadne)

Pathway Studio can import data from the following data providers (Each provider has their own licensing requirements to be met before you can import):

• Gene Ontology (GO)
• Gene sets from the Molecular Signal Database from the BROAD institute
• HPRD
• Experimental data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
• AraCyc metabolic pathways from TAIR and other pathways in BioPax format.
• Various ontologies in OBO format.

In addition to regular updates, Pathway Studio includes MedScan Technology that provides tools for in-scope knowledge extraction to augment and update your subscribed database.