Ariadne Genomics and Jubilant Biosys Announce Strategic Alliance, Providing Metabolic, Signaling, and Disease Pathway Databases as an Add-on to Pathway Analysis Software

BANGALORE, INDIA, ROCKVILLE, MD, February 16, 2004 -- Jubilant Biosys and Ariadne Genomics today announced a strategic alliance, allowing users of Ariadne Genomics PathwayAssist software access Jubilant Biosys manually curated PathArt Database of Signaling, Metabolic and Disease pathways. PathArt database for PathwayAssist will be available from Stratagene.

BANGALORE, INDIA, ROCKVILLE, MD, February 16, 2004 -- Jubilant Biosys and Ariadne Genomics today announced a strategic alliance, allowing users of Ariadne Genomics PathwayAssist software access Jubilant Biosys manually curated PathArt Database of Signaling, Metabolic and Disease pathways. PathArt database for PathwayAssist will be available from Stratagene.

PathwayAssist is popular desktop software for visualization and analysis of biological pathways, gene regulation networks and protein interaction maps. The software exploits proprietary Natural Language Processing technique to automatically extract biochemical facts from scientific literature.

Jubilants PathArt product is the worlds largest database of manually curated pathways, encompassing over 600 signaling and metabolic pathways. PathArt includes over 15 in-depth curated disease pathways, covering cancer, Alzheimers, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Asthma, Arthrosclerosis, HIV, RA and Diabetes. With the new alliance, users of PathwayAssist will have an option to access manually curated databases of molecular interactions from PathArt for an additional fee.

The combination of PathwayAssist and PathArt brings together the power of Natural Language Processing and manual curation", said Dr. Sreenivas Devidas, Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Jubilant Biosys Limited. Researchers in the Pharmaceutical industry and academia will now be able to obtain comprehensive mapping of their data in the context of biological pathways."

"Scientists involved in academic research and drug discovery need to have comprehensive pathway knowledge at their fingertips, with the ability to visualize and analyze it together with their research data", said Dr. Ilya Mazo, President of Ariadne Genomics. We believe that signaling pathway databases from PathArt will be an essential addition to our PathwayAssist software, providing researchers with a comprehensive toolset for pathway analysis."

PathwayAssist is distributed by Stratagene as a part of the IobionLab suite of biological software tools. PathArt database for PathwayAssist will be available from Stratagene. Stratagene will start distributing the PathArt database for PathwayAssist early this spring.

For more information about the partnership, please contact Ariadne Genomics at 1-240-453-6296 or Jubilant Biosys at 1-(443)-838-6260.

About Jubilant
Jubilant Biosys is an innovative bioinformatics and cheminformatics service provider, specializing in developing high-quality knowledge bases and informatics solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Jubilant is part of $250 million Jubilant Group, the largest Fine Chemicals company in India. Jubilant offers its clients a wide range of knowledge bases and related services developed by a team of highly qualified bioinformaticians, cheminformaticians and IT professionals. More information on Jubilant can be found at http://www.jubilantbiosys.com

About Ariadne Genomics
Ariadne Genomics develops software tools and knowledge bases for systems biology, based on its innovative natural language processing (NLP) and statistical algorithms: PathwayAssist for visualization and analysis of cell regulatory pathways, MedScan, an automated data mining tool for scientific literature (MEDLINE abstracts), DiscoveryCore, a super fast scientific database management system, DAS Browser for navigation and analysis of completely sequenced genomes, and ResNet, a comprehensive database of molecular networks derived from MEDLINE data. More on Ariadne Genomics please find at www.ariadnegenomics.com.

About Stratagene
Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, Stratagene invents, develops, manufactures, sells and supports innovative technologies for life science researchers. Since 1984, Stratagene has been known for novel, reliable and time-saving products in fields spanning molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and toxicology. Stratagene products are sold through a highly trained direct sales force, an e-commerce website, and a network of distributors worldwide.
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