Proteus Associates specializes in application of advanced information technology to life-science problems. It undertakes system design and implementation projects and consults on strategic issues involved in construction of sophisticated data acquisition, management, communication and display systems used in medicine and drug discovery research. The principals of Proteus have 30+ years of professional experience in these application areas, and are able to bring to bear both a wide understanding of technology (ranging from instrumentation to object-oriented databases to Java-based user interfaces) and the experience and "good taste" required to deploy that technology effectively.