Think the Impossible...

• Vision & Mission
• Research
• Lab

Vision & Mission

With the advent of the Internet, the sciences have changed dramatically, producing ever-increasing amounts of data and texts. Public databases currently host thousands of 3D protein structures, millions of sequences, and millions of scientific literature abstracts. Current technologies do not support the user in finding the right information for a task. We help you solve these problems!

Mission

Develop Intelligent Search Technologies for the Life Sciences and Beyond.

Beyond keywords, Transinsight uses novel algorithms, state-of-the art natural language processing, and ontologies to provide better and faster search capabilities for complex queries not only in the life sciences.

The goal of this development is the establishment of a semantic web for the life sciences. GoPubMed, the ontology-based literature search engine, is a first example of a knowledge-based semantic search engine to improve searching in sciences. GoPubMed paves the way for a migration from web to semantic web.

Vision

Towards Finding Answers

Beyond today's knowledge-based search, our vision is to contribute to the ultimate goal of finding answers and to ease the process of finding the right information for any given question. Providing the right pieces of textual material and data and summarizing them to suit a certain context will be the next step on our road map.

Our Philosophy

The Transinsight Principle - Gain Insight Through Transparency

The name Transinsight stands for gaining insight through transparency. Our philosophy is therefore to allow customers as much insight into our procedures as possible. We faithfully follow this philosophy with our products as well. In the search technology used in Transinsight's Enterprise Semantic Intelligence™ Knowledge Suite we don't rank results using an opaque algorithm. Instead, we put users in the driver's seat by allowing them to rank or filter results according to their needs. The use of a knowledge base makes this possible. Sorting search results into categories is the key to fostering transparency. In accordance with our vision "Towards Finding Answers," transparency plays the central role. Our users should be able to understand why certain search results are presented and how the software has applied reasoning techniques in order to arrive at the presented conclusions. Our promise is to continually operate around this principle.

Research

Transinsight collaborates closely with the bioinformatics group of TU Dresden.
The group has a comprehensive research programme funded with over 4.7 Million € dedicated to ontologies and textmining.

It covers the following topics:

• design and evolution of bio-ontologies,
• textmining to extract protein interactions and ontology terms in texts,
• grid computing for bioinformatics,
• analysis of high-throughput micro-array and RNAi data,
• biomedical applications in particular cell-cycle and pancreas tumor, endocytosis and infectious diseases, osteoclast differentiation and bone diseases as well as membrane proteins. A list of all publications
• life cell imaging and motion tracking (Kalaimoscope) in collaboration with the (MPI-CBG)

Cell 10	Nature 10	Biophyical Journal 09	Molecular Systems Biology 08	Cell 08
A Minimal Midzone Protein Module Controls Formation and Length of Antiparallel Microtubule Overlaps	Systems survey of endocytosis by multiparametric image analysis	Obstacles on the Microtubule Reduce the Processivity of Kinesin-1 in a Minimal In Vitro System and in Cell Extract	Membrane identity and GTPase cascades regulated by toggle and cut-out switches	XMAP215 is a processive microtubule polymerase
Nature 07	Science 07	Nature 06	Cell 05	Nature 03
Reconstitution of a microtubule plus-end tracking system in vitro	Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation	The depoly- merizing kinesin MCAK uses lattice diffusion to rapidly target microtubule ends	Rab Conversion as a Mecha- nism of Progression from Early to Late Endo- somes	RhoD regulates endosome dynamics through Diaphanous- related Formin and Src tyrosine kinase

Lab

• EarthFeed
• Lupe (Magnifier)

EarthFeed

EarthFeed is an interactive, knowledge-based RSS-FeedReader that displays news in realtime on an interactive World.

It can be intelligently customized using Transinsight's knowledge-based search technologies resulting in much better information accuracy.
With EarthFeed you read only what you really want to read! Its outstanding design makes it unique.

EarthFeed is designed and created by Christian Plonka on base of Ideas of L.Royer.

You can try EarthFeed here: EarthFeed

Functionality

EarthFeed is a screensaver, that reads RSS feeds, extracts place names, and jumps from place to place displaying the news.
EarthFeed can be configured to display general news and biotech news from any RSS feed available.

EarthFeed can also be used to interact with the world. You can visit any place in the world and see the current news there.

EarthFeed Pro

The professional version of EarthFeed makes a great addition to entrance halls and waiting areas, where it displays general news along with your own company or organisation's news including access to your web page. For further information please contact us at info@transinsight.com.

Features:

• fully 3D interactive globe Powered by NASA WorldWind
• extraction of place names via RSS feeds www.geonames.org
• toggle between presentation and interactive mode

Requirements

• Java 6 get it here!
• Internet connection
• a fast Computer with a 3D acceleration card

Lupe (Magnifier)

Lupe is a small magnifier for your desktop

Installation

• Click here to download the installation wizard for Microsoft® Windows®. [2.5mb]
• Unpack lupeSetup.zip file and place the file LupeSetup.msi in place of your choice (e.g. Desktop).
• Double click on LupeSetup.msi and thereby run the installation wizard.
• Now a little magnifier appears in the lower right systems tray (see screenshot to the right)
• To start the magnifier click on the symbol in your System Tray or double tap

Usage

• Use right click on the tray icon to customize the magnifier.
• You can continue working and click "through" the magnifier!
• To hide the magnifier press , use the context menu in the tray or just use and mouse wheel.
• Use the + and - keys to zoom in and out while the key is pressed.
• When pressing , you see the color value at the mouse pointer (RGB and HEX) and the zoom factor.
• When pressing the and at the same time, you see the distance from the point where the left mouse was located. The image section within the box is copied to the clip board.
• While pressing the and while Lupe is visible the zoom factor is set temporarely to 1 and only a small frame showing Lupes outline is shown. This allows elegant positioning of the Lupe on screen.
• While pressing the and use the arrow keys to fine tune your box pixel wise.
• Use the Print key when Lupe is visible to copy the content of Lupe into the systems clipboard. If Lupe is not visible hold down the and a small virtual section is copied into the systems clipboard.



• Feel free to distribute the software free of charge.
• For comments or suggestions please contact us at lupe@transinsight.com.
• Software developers able to create such a program please send your CV to jobs@transinsight.com, if you like to create next generation search technologies in a truely high-tech environment.