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A -- LLNL SEEKS PARTNERS FOR DATAFOUNDRY SOFTWARE SOL 99-007 DUE 011899 POC obrien14@lln.gov The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking companies interested in partnering with LLNL for the purpose of collaborating on the DataFoundry Software. DataFoundry is an advanced data warehousing environment providing powerful query and inference capabilities across a wealth of scientific data. DataFoundry offers quick and reliable access to data from multiple, heterogeneous data sources while maintaining source autonomy. It performs full data integration, providing the user with semantically consistent access through separate interfaces for novice, intermediate and advanced users. It also provides clustering and classification interfaces that operate directly on the warehouse data. DataFoundry reduces the cost of warehouse maintenance, making data warehousing feasible in scientific domains. It uses explicitly defined meta-data to automatically generate mediation code and an API that simplifies writing and maintaining wrappers. With this approach, DataFoundry has demonstrated 45% savings in integration time using a prototype developed for use by structural biologists at LLNL. By reducing warehousing costs, DataFoundry decreases the time, effort and expense of developing more effective drugs. The purpose of this announcement is to provide an opportunity for industrial partners to utilize and commercialize the software. All projects are conducted under policies of strict non-disclosure of company proprietary information. NOTE: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT If you are interested in working with LLNL on the DataFoundry software, please respond in writing within 30 days of this announcement. Contact: Kevin O'Brien at obrien14@llnl.gov. List the subject as Partnering for DataFoundry Software. Posted 12/18/98 (W-SN281872). (0352)

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