Base4 Reaches Milestone.

Health/Medical Writers

SAN DIEGO &TORONTO--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 25, 2000

PharMatrix (PMx) Technology Receives Market Approval

Base4 Inc. announced today that its first year of marketing efforts for its flagship PharMatrix knowledge management system have resulted in significant orders from more than a dozen major pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. There are now more than 1,100 PharMatrix users who span several functional and geographic areas.

PharMatrix is now a dominant force in the area of enterprise knowledge management for collaborative scientific research and discovery. PharMatrix has gained wide acceptance among scientific researchers of many disciplines. It provides full project support, with access to internal and external databases and analysis tools, notification and process automation, which are critical to accelerate scientific R&.

&uot;We have found PharMatrix to be an innovative and highly useful product to manage the large volumes of unstructured information generated during our analysis of new genome targets for drug discovery,&uot; said Dr. Rainer Fuchs, VP &CIO for ARIAD Pharmaceuticals. &uot;PharMatrix gives teams an organized and flexible repository, powerful search and retrieval, and a variety of useful collaborative tools.&uot;

&uot;We have been using PharMatrix for a year to manage and share documents among the members of our drug-discovery project teams and departments,&uot; said Dr. Bryan Takasaki, Manager of Research Application Development at AstraZeneca R& Montreal. &uot;It is a 'user-friendly' tool which has greatly facilitated the sharing of information not only within our own site but also with our colleagues at other AstraZeneca sites around the world.&uot;

PharMatrix is a feature-rich, collaborative electronic, knowledge management product configured specifically for the life sciences R &D environment. It facilitates the capture, storage and dissemination of knowledge generated during the scientific discovery process. For example, PharMatrix manages the complex steps of Drug Discovery, from target identification and confirmation, assay development, screening and lead optimization, to the various stages of preclinical development. The comprehensive functionality of PharMatrix can be rapidly deployed and is easily customized and extended to meet the needs of R &D teams.

Base4 is a pharmaceutical informatics company that develops and applies data and knowledge management tools to support research and development processes within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Base4's U.S. head office is located in San Diego, California and its Canadian head office is located in Mississauga, Ontario. Base4 has sales offices in Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Vancouver.

Further information about the company can be found at http://base4.com and about PharMatrix at http://pharmatrix.com