Synthace Partners With Microsoft to Bring Antha to Azure

Synthace Partners With Microsoft to Bring Antha to Azure

LONDON, April 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Synthace Ltd., a London based technology company developing Antha, a high level
language and operating system for working with biology, today announced it has entered
into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to use Azure cloud analytics, cognitive
services, and machine learning.

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    Geoff Hughes, Business Development at Microsoft commented: "We are excited about
Antha's ability to transform the productivity of working with biology, from genomics, to
drug discovery, to bio manufacturing. We are delighted to be working with Synthace to
deliver this disruptive technology through Microsoft's Azure Cloud Machine Learning
services via our BizSpark Plus program."

    "Supporting projects like Antha is part of Microsoft's long term commitment to help
people innovate and improve all of our lives through the power of technology," said Raya
Yunakova, Startup Programs Manager, Microsoft UK. "The BizSpark Plus program provides
entrepreneurs with essential tools and technology, giving them the freedom they need to
create and grow. We are humbled by the ambitious tasks that Synthace and others like them
undertake and are excited that we can support them in their journey."

    "Biological experimentation is in crisis. Understanding complex systems is impossible
if the underlying working practices are as highly variable and failure prone as they are
today," said Sean Ward, Founder and CTO of Synthace. "Powerful advances in AI and deep
learning are of little use without sufficient and structured experimental data to train
them on, which is why Antha is bioscience's missing link."

    Antha is an open-source language that provides a clear and complete description of
working practices, which can then be translated, using the AnthaOS operating system, into
automated execution on hardware from many different vendors. It also ensures that
structured data is produced from every experiment. The result for the user is enhanced
traceability, reproducibility and simplicity.

    Andrew Phillips, Head of Bio Computation at Microsoft Research commented "As we
develop the next generation of biodesign software technologies it is critical to be able
to translate them into the real world. Antha solves the current disconnect and major
bottleneck between this digital to physical transition enabling us to build and apply
advanced tools to understand and engineer biology."

    About Synthace 

    Synthace is transforming the engineering of biology, for all its applications across
health, food, energy and manufacturing. Combining computation, biology and automation the
company is able to rapidly develop robust, high yielding bioprocesses to make bio-based
products. Central to Synthace's technology is Antha, a platform that brings quality by
design and design for manufacturing to biological research and development. Learn more at
http://www.synthace.com and http://www.antha.com.

    About BizSpark Plus 

    Microsoft BizSpark Plus is a premier program offered exclusively through select
partners that helps startups succeed by giving free access to Microsoft Azure cloud
services, software and support.

       
         
        Company Contact 
        Sean Ward 
        Founder & CTO 
        sward@synthace.com 
        +44(0)77385-11117 
        +44(0)207-554-5877 

     

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