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Pathway Analysis in a 3D, Collaborative, Interactive Environment Graphing for the 21st Century
Few data visualization/analysis applications provide real-time manipulation of data variables in 3D; but until now, no application has provided the ability to view over fifteen data variables at once in an organic “data world,” or view, manipulate and customize time as a maleable fourth dimension.  Cellipath™ is the first Pathway Analysis tool that makes the software conform to the user’s bio-data analysis problem, not the other way around. While the Cellipath™ functionality will be normally available as a module of BioSprockets™, it will also be offered as a standalone application to fill the needs of labs looking to provide streamlined ways to "play" with hypotheses.
Tacitus conducted six months of user research before starting design of its BioSprockets™ application, interviewing over 20 scientists in computational biology, bioinformatics and drug research – as well as leaders in Pharma and Biotech drug discovery around the country – in order to gain the deepest possible grasp of current frustrations and unmet needs in pathway analysis software. BioSprockets™ enables researchers to see, analyze, manage, explore and collaborate within multiple levels of data relationships in scale-free networks, creating a more intuitive understanding – and therefore more insight – into complex interactions within the drug discovery process.
How can a lab view the output of two hundred different streaming data sources with seventy-five different data types at the same moment?

Vast amounts of data on companies, suppliers, markets, risk, portfolios, credit... but no valuable insight whatsoever.
Is this familiar?

Tacitus is partnering with two highly regarded academic labs to develop PatternSphere™ Earth, a new Data Gaming platform for monitoring, manipulating and visualizing the massive amount of environmental data streams now being collected by government, private and academic labs by way of sensors placed throughout the globe.  Collecting data is only the first step.  The lens through which data is viewed is what will drive insights that can change the world.

Through user research with CFOs from Fortune 500 companies across the U.S., Tacitus has learned a great deal about why useful financial data visualization applications are so rare. When a bank makes a decision about a fifty million dollar loan, or a major partnership, or a supplier for eighteen hundred miles of fiber optic cable, or on strategies for a major portfolio… spreadsheets and two-dimensional charts are not sufficient. In the dawn of the 21st century, there is a glut of financial data and data streams that were not available even five years ago. Nevertheless, the implications of this wealth of information must be brought to bear in making critical decisions. PatternSphere™ Finance is the first application to leverage game platform technology to change the nature of how complex financial data are viewed, understood, manipulated and ultimately applied to make wise decisions.
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BioSprockets™, Cellipath™ and PatternSphere™ are trademarks of Tacitus, LLC.