BioWisdom launches new version of SRS

31 January 2008, Cambridge, UK - BioWisdom Ltd (BioWisdom), a leader in the provision of healthcare software and healthcare intelligence for the pharmaceutical industry, today announces the release of SRS version 8.3.

SRS 8.3 provides new functionality, improved user interface and support for the latest hardware and software platforms. Improvements in the new version include:

• A User Annotations Module - allows users to add their own annotation to any entry discovered using SRS and make these annotations searchable by anyone else within the organisation;

• An Alerting Module - allows users to register interest in a specific query and receive notifications via email when the results of the query change;

• Usability improvements - giving users the ability to add protein and nucleic sequences to a personal database, improved functionality to rename and add descriptions to favourite queries;

• Direct URL Access - allows other web-based applications to directly link to SRS data and download/extract the data in multiple formats (including Excel and XML);

• Improved platform support - SRS now supports RedHat AS/ES 4.0 in both 32 bit and 64 bit formats.

"SRS remains the world's leading bioinformatics platform for both academic and commercial organisations. This release is further demonstration of our continued commitment to SRS going forward" said Gordon Baxter, CEO of BioWisdom. "This latest version brings significant improvements to SRS customers and allows SRS to be at the centre of BioWisdom's wider intelligent search capability. SRS is the search and integration capability that underpins BioWisdom's Safety Intelligence Program."

"SRS is a crucial tool that allows us to build specific databases for transcript mRNA of Poaceae and Triticeae" said Dr. Philippe Leroy, of the European TriAnnotPipelineGRID programme (http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/projects/TriAnnot/). "SRS is the only resource, made available by MIGALE platform (http://migale.jouy.inra.fr/), which allows downloading of large amounts of data and complex queries through the SRS query interface."

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ABOUT BIOWISDOM LTD

BioWisdom delivers intelligence for the Healthcare Industry and helps clients to navigate the complex scientific and commercial issues involved in developing successful healthcare products. The company provides a powerful suite of software tools for the formatting, search, visualization and high value analysis of healthcare intelligence. The BioWisdom team combines extensive experience of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with proven expertise in life science software development.

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