University of Minnesota’s SignatureMap technology for visualizing multiple protein markers wins award at the Pathology Informatics conference
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Nov 21, 2011 — University of Minnesota’s Signature Map software won an award for best poster presentation at the Pathology Informatics 2011 meeting held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The technology allows for multiple immunofluorescent or immunohistochemistry markers on consecutive tissue sections to be aligned and displayed in a ratio appearance, similar to a heat map view in gene expression data. The presentation described the use of the technology in the evaluation of multiple prostate markers in tissue microarrays and whole slide images.
Flagship has an exclusive license to this protein multiplexing approach from the University of Minnesota, and has developed applications for tumor heterogeneity analysis and multiplexed evaluation of tumor samples.
