With the invention and subsequent rise in personal computing, tech heavyweights increasingly gobbled up tech start-ups sometimes with the primary initiative of possessing their proprietary technology (reference Oracle).
Skimming through these publications, it is obvious that most papers citing proprietary programs reference a range of open-source ones as well, and that contemporary genomics research often involves a hodgepodge of commercial and free bioinformatics software.
All genetic ancestry companies compare a person's genome with a proprietary database of reference populations, and show percentages of DNA defined racially, ethnically, continentally, or by modern nation-states.
However, for many laboratories it is neither feasible nor desirable to assemble a proprietary collection of reference samples.
ROX is a proprietary passive internal reference dye that does not participate in the PCR reaction where the "X" in each form of ROX differs from company to company (which is why ROX from different sources does not work the same).
In silico analyses (requiring access to public [ 27- 30] or proprietary [ 31, 32] reference databanks) are required to annotate the NMR peaks, LC peaks or ion traces to specific metabolites.
Mg2+ and dNTP concentrations, along with other corporately undisclosed proprietary components (including passive reference molecules such as "ROX") are assumed to be "optimal" as is – as purchased from the manufacturer.
The software identified associations among the input genes by referencing a proprietary yeast interaction database.
The scanner is fitted with calibration rods made of a proprietary material whose properties provide reference points for the creation of an image.
