RowAnalytics Invites Scientists to Help Shape Its Semantic Search Solution

RowAnalytics is democratizing biomedical literature search. This is an open initiative seeking

feedback from scientists to develop the final version of precisionlife SEARCH. No more Boolean
searches. The AI engine constructs the query based on whole sentences, abstracts or documents
uploaded or pasted into the query field to retrieve papers related by concept - not just keyword.

Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2018 --(PR.com)-- RowAnalytics Ltd., an innovator in high-dimensional
analytics and precision medicine, today formally launched its new search find engine with an open
invitation to users to help shape the final product. precisionlife™ SEARCH matches concepts, not just
keywords, using deep semantic learning (a powerful artificial intelligence technology). Not only is the
association technology radically different from the popular keyword search tools, but so is the approach.
RowAnalytics aims to solve grand challenges in health by innovating analytics but also aims to be
equally innovative with respect to how researchers are engaged. RowAnalytics is seeking feedback to
help shape the final product. Have a look at: https://lifescience.spot.my

Estimates vary, but the conclusion is the same: workers are spending more and more time searching for
information, duplicating their own work or that of others because they can't find the document they need,
and employers are wasting billions of dollars per year on lost productivity. Quandora conducted a survey
of its members in 2015 and found that the average worker spends 2h/day searching for info. McKinsey
cited a similar statistic (1.8h/d) which translates to 1 out of every 5 workers spending their time searching
and basically not contributing any value. In 2016, IDC forecast a 60-fold increase in the number of
accessible files by 2020 and cited that knowledge workers were spending an average of 8.8h/wk
searching for info, which correlates to employers spending about $14,000/yr/worker on search time. BAE
Systems did an audit in 2016 and found that their engineers were spending at least 1h/d duplicating work
because they couldn't find or didn't know that the work was contained in another document, wasting over
$5M/yr in duplication time. Last year, in 2017, nearly 3.3 million scientific and technical articles were
published and SearchYourCloud recently surveyed that workers required an average of 8 searches to find
the right document or information they were seeking. This is crazy.

Calculating the lost opportunity cost in science is more difficult. How do scientists keep up with the
literature, daily news alerts and everything going on in the field - and peripherally around it? How much
time is wasted trying to construct a Boolean query for a complex search or waiting in the queue of a data
scientist to get the search results requested? And what happens when that one key paper is missed ...?

Marcin Pawlowski, PhD, CTO of RowAnalytics, states, “Deep semantic technology provides a solid and
flexible foundation that users can readily customize for their own environments. Any database, web
feeds, document store, be it a public database, private Dropbox™ or other repository can be easily
indexed and integrated into the search and viewed through the company portal or other GUI.”

RowAnalytics set out to solve the major problems with search engines. First, removing the requirement
that the user knows all the “right” keywords and has the uncommon expertise to build this and/or “not
that” Boolean style complex searches. Now, entire sentences or abstracts can be pasted or whole articles

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and/or patents together can be directly uploaded into the query field. The AI find engine constructs the
query on behalf of the user and retrieves all the hits that match, as well as returns interesting hits that
keyword searches miss. This is especially helpful when preparing a patent claim or new drug filing when
much of the language is deliberately obfuscated - precisionlife SEARCH determines which other patent
applications (or articles) are similar in concept.

Second, avoiding the high cost of manual ontology curation, the tedium of data training, the frequently
missed/wrong tags, and challenge of scaling. Deployment is now easy via automatic incremental
indexing, requires no training, enables rapid adoption and keeps the computational demands minimal.
Document clustering enables scaling to billions of documents and tens of millions of terms on affordable
servers.

Third, there was a great need to enable researchers to stay current on the literature without having to set
up alerts on multiple sites and be bombarded by large numbers of 'not quite right' papers. The “Research
Channels” feature allows users to easily save and share any of the search results as a permanent link. Plus,
favorite papers can be assigned a “star” and saved to a personal reading list.

“Deep personalization and enabling researchers to find the information they need are central to the
efficiency of scientific progress,” said Steve Gardner, PhD, CEO of RowAnalytics. “The team is
particularly proud of the like/dislike and iterative search features which learn and apply personal
preferences so that precisionlife SEARCH becomes a trusted extension of one's own mind, constantly and
automatically finding the best articles without any additional action required.”

In its current state, the technology is plastic, malleable into whatever scientists want it to become, and its
final release is fluid. Be a part of the community. Join other researchers testing the precisionlife SEARCH
engine, contribute feedback and be among the first to apply it to daily work. Check it out at Molecular
Med Tri-Conference Booth #932 or go online: https://lifeScience.spot.my

About RowAnalytics
RowAnalytics is an A.I. solutions company innovating high-dimensional analytics to solve grand
challenges in health, food and smart living. Our precisionLIFE platform powers massive disease
population studies to identify novel associations of multiple genomic, phenotypic and clinical factors in
parallel to assess disease risk and predict therapeutic response. Our platform is a remarkable new
capability in precision medicine with unprecedented scale and speed to identify biomarkers, find new
purposes for existing drugs and to identify those patients most likely to respond to treatment.
RowAnalytics' solutions provide personalization at the scale required to deliver next generation precision
medicine, digital health and smart IoT solutions. Headquartered in Oxford, UK, with offices in
Copenhagen, DK, Warsaw, PL and Cambridge, MA, RowAnalytics was founded by a diverse team of
highly experienced life science, healthcare, A.I. and computer science leaders.

To learn more, visit www.rowanalytics.com

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Loralyn Mears
804-539-2324
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www.rowanalytics.com

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