Compendia Bioscience Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has won a $1.3 million Small Business Innovation Research Fast Track award to create a way for scientists to survey micro-RNA data across databases.
Micro-RNA is a new type of non-coding RNA molecule that can provide researchers data on cancer development, progression and metastasis. Despite growing libraries of micro-RNA profiling data, cancer biologists are unable to survey the data across published databases.
Compendia’s Oncomine project will capture, curate and analyze the novel micro-RNA data type to enable cancer researchers to find what they need.
