Development Partner Program
Development of the Inference software platform is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. This competitive program ensures that the nation's small, high-tech, innovative businesses are a significant part of the federal government's research and development efforts. Participants in SBIR translate scientific discoveries into products and services that touch people's lives.
Blue Reference is a member of Microsoft’s BioIT Alliance: a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. It unites the pharmaceutical biotech, hardware, and software industries to speed the pace of discovery in life sciences.
Strategic Partner Program
Strategic Partners are a select group of companies committed to implementing enterprise solutions, using the
Inference solution platform, within focused vertical applications such as: Pharmaceutical R&D (
Inference for Quality-by-Design), quantitative finance, engineering, bioinformatics, and application development. Strategic partners receive comprehensive quick-start training, enterprise solution development services, software maintenance, and support. Email
Partner@BlueReference.com
to request information about becoming a Strategic Partner.
Academic Affiliate Program
The Inference Academic Affiliate Program aims to engender use of Inference within academic institutions for the purposes of reproducible research and virtual learning practices. Using Inference, instructors and students can combine explanatory text, code, objects, and data in a single dynamic document -- the perfect tool for enabling reproducible results, creating interactive lessons, publishing well documented research reports, and general collaboration. In return for their pioneering efforts, Academic Affiliates receive free academic site licenses for the duration of their participation in the program.
Note: We are currently accepting Affiliates for the 2008-2009 academic year; please
Click Here to download an application.