Caris Life Sciences and COTA, Inc. Announce Collaboration to Expand Collective Multi-Modal Data Offering
IRVING, Texas and NEW YORK, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Caris Life Sciences®(Caris), the leading next-generation AI TechBio company and precision medicine pioneer that is actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare and improve the human condition using molecular science and AI, and COTA, Inc. (COTA), an oncology real-world data (RWD) and analytics company used by the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, today announced a collaboration to expand their multi-modal data offerings to support and accelerate biopharmaceutical drug development and patient care.
- The combination of the breadth and depth of Caris' genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and imaging data and COTA's high-quality curated clinical data that captures the treatment journeys and outcomes of cancer patients will result in a broad real-world, multi-modal data offering, at scale, to power the next wave of cancer therapeutics.
- "Caris' partnership with COTA will enable biopharma to leverage a more complete dataset to power research and AI approaches for therapeutic development.
- Caris was the first in the molecular diagnostic industry to provide Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) DNA coverage and Whole Transcriptome Sequencing (WTS) RNA coverage for every viable sample.
- "By combining COTA's high-quality, curated data sourced from electronic health records with Caris' molecular data, life sciences researchers will be able to capture previously unseen insights to optimize cancer treatments that can improve a patient's prognosis and quality of life," said C.K.