Praxeon at AWS The Start-Up Project

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1. Slide 1: Praxeon : Getting to Market with Amazon AWS September 2007
2. Slide 2: About Us • Founded in 2005 with a scientific focus • Developed medical search technology based on chemical fingerprints and ideas from natural language • Dr. Dennis Underwood, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer  Chemistry, Computational Sciences  Big pharma and small pharma R&D • Nicolas Encina President, Chief Operating Officer  Comuter Science, Biology  Small pharma • Rishi Sikka, MD Chief Medical Officer  Practicing physician • Kevin Gilpin Chief Technical Officer Computer Science, Aerospace engineering  Enterprise software, small pharma 
3. Slide 3: Fingerprint.MD Technology Change the representation of • a document (journal, patent, news, etc.) from words to concepts IPI-504 Anticancer Applies a domain model • Cancer Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to create a Semantic inhibitor Heat Shock Protein Fingerprint. multiple myeloma Hsp90 Uses whole ideas to search, • small molecule organize and analyze cancer cell information. homeostasis programmed cell death apoptosis IPI-504 compounds Enables intelligent search • results to sophisticated questions in the language of medicine
4. Slide 4: Finding our way with Amazon AWS Finding the Product + Market Fit • So you have a technology idea? How do you find the right audience for it? • The demand is to build real enough software that people can use it while staying extremely adaptable and agile • Maximum time spent on your technology and functionality, the minimum possible time on ‘plumbing’ • Using Amazon AWS helps us to spend more time on our core technology “The line for technology with no business model is over there…”
5. Slide 5: What is the application? • Drug discovery and development  Internal IT in pharma and biotech  Discovery of new knowledge ; lead generation and new IP • Search application for medical professionals Physicians, hospitals, insurers  Profile-driven search : find the best evidence from a patient record  Integrate to EMR systems  • Search application for patients  Profile-driven search  Profile-driven news • Technology platform  “Fingerprint.MD is the medical intelligence engine”
6. Slide 6: Timeline : Finding Users Physician Drug Profile-Driven Fingerprint.MD Search Discovery Search & News API Utilization October 2006 October 2007 October 2005
7. Slide 7: MyDailyApple : Personalized News
8. Slide 8: MyDailyApple : Personalized Search
9. Slide 9: Timeline : Complexity of the Infrastructure Physician Drug Profile-Driven Fingerprint.MD Search Discovery Search & News API 1 3 5 8 Servers 250 1000 2000 5000 Documents (K) 1 2 4 5 Applications 1 2 3 3 Environments Amazon AWS October 2006 October 2007 October 2005
10. Slide 10: Tangible Benefits • No self-hosted infrastructure; no sys admin • Storage  Freed from worries of scale and failure  Locally cached on EC2 instance • Provisioning  First a single machine. Then proof of concept to test S3 integration  Added separate production environment with no additional effort  Built some simple tools to provision and manage the instances using Capistrano • Security  EC2 provides port security and instructions on how to issue and use credentials. • Future  Being in EC2 enables us to start thinking about using value-added services like Mashery for the Fingerprint.MD API and RightScale for scaling up the application layer and we know that everything is co-located.
11. Slide 11: Where we are Today www.curbside.md  Since April 2007  “Evidence-based answers to real medical questions”  Supported by 10 disease advocacy organizations including the National MS Society and the Accelerated Cure Project  Answered thousands of professional medical questions www.mydailyapple.com  Since September 2007  “Personalized news and search for patients”  Won audience poll for best search engine over Helia, MedStory, Kosmix, Healthline at Health 2.0 conference www.fingerprint.md  “Medical intelligence API”  ReST-ful web services to search, organize, comprehend  Starting pilot program in October