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Knorex Joins iDA's ELITe+ Meet-The-Mentor Session

Knorex has been invited to participate in the Infocomm Development Authority (iDA)'s organized annual event on "ELITe+ Meet-The-Mentor Session" where we will be interacting with a total of 97 top students hailing from the top local universities: NUS, NTU and SMU to identify mentorship and internship opportunities.

The Enhanced Learning in Information Technology Plus (ELITe+) is a talent development programme that aims to develop "industry-ready" infocomm graduates. The event details are as follows:

  • 24 February 2012, Friday
  • Meeting Rooms 1 & 2, Mapletree Business City
  • 2pm to 5pm

See you there !

Posted on 13 Feb 2012

Knorex Participates in NUS Career Fair 2012

Knorex is participating in the annual NUS Career Fair to meet up with graduating students and interested students to share with you what we do at Knorex.

Chat with us at :

  • Careers@Startups (Booths 224,226,255-258)
  • Level 2, NUS Multipurpose Hall (SRC)
  • 10am to 5pm, 2 Feb 2012

See you there !

Posted on 26 Jan 2012

Knorex Co-Sponsors the InCoB's ISCB-Asia Joint Bioinformatics Conference

The InCoB/ISCB-Asia Joint Conference 2011 is jointly hosted by the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) and International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as a platform to bring together experts and budding bioinformaticians to discuss and exchange ideas and thoughts on the development of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, the conference is also organized in collaboration with the International Immunomics Society (IIMMS) and the Malaysian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (MaSBiC).

The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) which began in 2002, has since grown to become one of the largest bioinformatics conferences in the Asia-Pacific region.

Knorex is proud to be a corporate sponsor for the conference.

For more information on how you can register for the event, visit the website

Posted on 1 Dec 2011

Knorex Presenting at the Media Exploits 2011 (ME2011)

Knorex has been invited to showcase our products and solutions at the Media Exploits 2011 (ME1011), an industry seminar and networking event on Tuesday, 1 November 2011. The event will take place at Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4, Matrix Building, Biopolis from 1pm to 5:30pm.

Posted on 19 Oct 2011

Knorex Featured as AWS Case Study

Knorex has been featured as a case study for application hosting under the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Case Study. The case study provides some information on how Knorex has been abel to leverage on AWS to create a robust backend for hosting different types of applications that can cater to different requirements in computing resource, traffic patterns and costing. To learn more about how Knorex uses AWS, check out the details at AWS Case Study.

Posted on 18 Aug 2011

Keynote Speaker at the Semantic Applied Technologies on Biomedical Informatics (SATBI 2011)

Dr. Chris Baker, Chief Science Officer of Knorex, has been invited as the keynote speaker to present his work on "Deployments of SADI Semantic Web Services in Genomics, Lipidomics, Toxicology and Healthcare" at the Semantic Applied Technologies on Biomedical Informatics (SATBI 2011). The international workshop will be held from 1 August 2011 to 3 August 2011 at Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Posted on 01 Aug 2011

Presenting at the Highlights Track of the 19th Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011)

Dr. Chris Baker, Chief Science Officer of Knorex, will be presenting his team's work on "Mutation Impact Mining using SADI Semantic Web Services" at the Highlights Track of the 19thISMB 2011. The international conference is the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference, and it provides a multidisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics/computational biology. The annual conference will be held from 17 to 19 July 2011 at Vienna, Austria.

Posted on 19 Jul 2011

Invited Judge for the Elsevier/Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon

Dr. Chris Baker, Chief Science Officer of Knorex, has been invited as one of the distinguished judges for the Elsevier/Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon. The 24-hour Health and Life Sciences Semantic Web Hackathon will be held on 27 till 28 June 2011 on the campus of the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, NY.

In this competition, participants will develop apps using linked data made available by TWC and other sources, web APIs from Elsevier SciVerse, and visualization and other resources from around the Web.

Detailed information of the event can be found at the event website.

Posted on 27 Jun 2011

Knorex Supports ASEC to Promote Entrepreneurship Amongst the Youth

Knorex will be participating and supporting the Asian Science Enterprise Challenge (ASEC) 2011 to encourage entrepreneurial activities among the youth. Youth ranging from 16 to 19 years old who is enrolled in a locally (Singapore) recognized school e.g Polytechnics, Junior Colleges, IB Course, International Schools, etc. The students shall form teams and compete using their creativity to come up with innovative design within 24 hours from the time a challenge is issued.

Previous event included participants hailing from Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Singapore participating in the challenge. The ASEC winners will have the opportunity to represent Singapore in the final Asian Challenge and also enter the prestigious Global Enterprise Challenge 2011.

The event shall be held on the 28th and 29th May 2011 at the Science Center Singapore.

UPDATES: Team Knorex (mentored by Knorex member) with their "Ez-Walk" invention won the local round and will be representing Singapore at the Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC) in June 2011. Ez-Walk is also the regional 1st runner up. Ez-Walk is a light-weight, spring-loaded walking stick made within a low-budget. It aims to aid the elderly and disabled in their mobility particularly when they are sitting or standing up. Videos from other groups is viewable at YouTube.

UPDATES 2: Team Singapore won the IPN Innovation award the Global Enterprise Challenge

Posted on 26 May 2011

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