Ingenuity's Path Designer is Selected as Best New Product by Life Science Community at 2008 Molecular Medicine Conference

REDWOOD CITY, California, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life
science researchers, announced today that Path Designer, the new pathway
publishing tool in IPA 6, was selected as the Best New Product by the
scientific community in attendance at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference
in San Francisco. Path Designer enables researchers to create customized,
publication-quality graphics to more clearly communicate their experimental
findings and scientific hypotheses. Path Designer offers a distinct advantage
to users because the graphics remain interactive, so new information can be
added and the original knowledge used to build the pathway remains
accessible.

"We are delighted to have won this award," stated Brigitte Ganter,
Director of Product Management at Ingenuity Systems. "IPA's development has
always been customer-centric, and we developed Path Designer in response to
our to customers' need to effectively communicate their scientific findings
in a visually compelling and meaningful manner. We are honored to receive
this community-chosen award and appreciate the strong support from the IPA
user community in designing the product."

"Path Designer is unique for several reasons," commented Ramon Felciano,
Ph.D., CTO and Vice President, Research at Ingenuity Systems. "It provides
the user with flexibility in how they represent different parts of pathways
and networks. With this sort of control, researchers can modify the
representation of drugs, genes, molecules, or relationships to clearly
demonstrate their membership in various pathways, signatures, or disease
processes. More importantly, the pathway remains dynamic, which means that
researchers can continue to access and use Ingenuity's uniquely structured
knowledge base of literature findings while adding their own proprietary
insights. There really is no better way to use pathways to illustrate key
results and hypotheses to colleagues."

About Ingenuity Pathways Analysis

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis is an all-in-one software application that
enables researchers to model, analyze, and understand the complex biological
and chemical systems at the core of life science research. IPA's search
capabilities provide users with access to the highest quality detail-rich
knowledge available on genes, drugs, chemicals, protein families, cellular
and disease processes, and signaling and metabolic pathways. IPA supports
analysis of data from all experimental platforms, and is used at all stages
of the drug discovery and development process, including target
identification and validation, biomarker discovery, molecular toxicology,
metabolomics, and pharmacogenomics. IPA has been broadly adopted and cited in
hundreds of peer-reviewed journals.

About Ingenuity Systems(R)

Ingenuity Systems is a leading provider of information solutions for the
exploration, interpretation, and analysis of life science information. All of
Ingenuity's products and services have one common goal -- to help life
science researchers generate maximum value from all types of biological and
chemical knowledge. Ingenuity offers a broad and flexible range of solutions
that can be tailored to needs of various clients, including academic and
therapeutic area researchers, computational biologists and informatics
departments, and suppliers in the life sciences industry. All of the products
leverage Ingenuity's knowledge base, the largest data base of its kind, which
houses the biological and chemical relationships extracted from scientific
literature. The information is uniquely structured so scientists can ask
complex biological questions to gain rapid insight into their experimental
data or create relevant biological models to move forward in their research.
Today, Ingenuity's solutions are used by thousands of researchers at hundreds
of leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic research institutions
worldwide. Ingenuity was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood
City, California with offices in Germany, Switzerland, France, the United
Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. www.ingenuity.com

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