BioITWorld 2002 Exhibitor Profiles.

Business/Biotechnology Writers

BioITWorld San Diego 2002

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002

The BioITWorld Conference & Expo convenes this week, Nov. 12-14, at the San Diego Convention Center. For information about the event visit http://www.bioitworldexpo.com/.

Profiles from BioITWorld exhibitors are listed below. News releases and press kits are available online at www.tradeshownews.com Business Wire and Virtual Press Office are the office news services for the BioITWorld Conference & Expo.

Company: BIOCOM/San Diego
Booth: 120
Media Contact: Maryanne Pintar
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
Company URL: www.biocom.org

Company Description: BIOCOM/San Diego is the regional association
for the biotechnology and medical device industries in the San Diego
area. In addition, membership includes service sector companies
specializing in serving the needs of San Diego's growing biomedical
industry. Since 1995 the organization has proactively addressed
significant business and legislative issues, and developed programs
and products to help biomedical companies operate efficiently and
economically.

The association is sanctioned by its 450 members to act as the
public policy advocate on a local, regional and statewide level for
the industry, provide networking opportunities through meetings and
conferences, provide professional development opportunities, act as a
news and information hub for the entire biocommunity, and administer
member services and benefits such as the Purchasing Group.

Company: CambridgeSoft Corporation
Booth:  106
Media Contact: Bruce R. Gelin
Investor Relations Contact: Michael G. Tomasic
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL: www.cambridgesoft.com
Press Kit URL: www.cambridgesoft.com/about/pressroom.cfm

Product Description: CambridgeSoft's products are used in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries, higher
education, academic, and government research. The principal offering,
ChemOffice, which includes ChemDraw, is the de facto tool on chemist's
desktop. ChemOffice WebServer, an enterprise implementation of
ChemOffice, enables organizations to deploy solutions using Internet,
intranet, and extranet technologies.

Company Description: CambridgeSoft Corporation is the leading
supplier of Internet browser and webserver based life science desktop
software, enterprise solutions, chemical databases and consulting
services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical
industries. The Company, in addition, is the leading supplier of
infrastructure products and services to information publishers and
chemical suppliers.

Company: Canadian High Commission
Booth: F64
Contact: Rob Daniel
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Whether in research collaborations, strategic alliances,
investment opportunities or reduced R&D costs, the Canadian
biotechnology sector offers a wealth of opportunities for
international partners. On the world scene, Canada&#x 1;s biotech industry
is extremely competitive, ranking first in terms of R&D expenditure
per employee; second in the number of companies; and third in annual
revenues. With over 650 products currently under development or on the
market, the human health sector dominates the Canadian industry with
strong clusters existing in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. However,
significant biotechnology strengths can also be found across the
country in the fields of agriculture, aquaculture, environment and
forestry.

Company: Chemical Computing Group Inc.
Booth: 612
Contact: Katie Rodgers
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL:  www.chemcomp.com

Chemical Computing Group eases the discovery process with state of
the art software for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. MOE,
the Molecular Operating Environment is a multi-application product
designed to overcome obstacles facing today&#x 1;s leading researchers. MOE
contains a complete range of computational applications in drug
discovery. These include: Small molecule and Protein modeling,
Structure Based Design, High Throughput Discovery and Cheminformatics.
Source code to these applications is provided, thus making MOE fully
customizable. This unique architecture, coupled with the flexibility
of platform independence does indeed make MOE the single remedy for
the aches and pains of drug discovery.

Company: EKM Corporation
Booth: 117
PR Contact: Camille Worthington
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL: www.ekmco.com

EKM Corporation delivers Knowledge Management (KM) solutions
tailored to the life science industry. Our unique Life Science KM
environment centers on creating innovative document management,
content management, workflow, and collaboration solutions. Our
solutions merge business and scientific processes with powerful KM
technology. This combination of process and technology gives life
science companies an immense competitive advantage in the areas of
drug discovery, clinical trial management, FDA electronic submission,
cGxP regulatory compliance, and business process automation. Our
understanding of the challenges specific to life science organizations
enables EKM to build a knowledge management environment that provides
a quicker, more comprehensive return on investment for its customers.

Company:&#x 1; Gene Network Sciences
Booth:&#x 1; 334
Contact:&#x 1; Debbie Pfeifer
Phone:&#x 1; 206-484-8676
E-mail:&#x 1;[e-mail]
Company URL:  www.gnsbiotech.com

Founded in August 2000, Gene Network Sciences is a privately held
company headquartered in Ithaca, New York.&#x 1; A pioneer in the field of
systems biology, GNS creates dynamic data-driven computer models of
the genetic and biochemical networks of living cells.&#x 1; The company has
created the&#x 1;largest data-driven computer model of a human cancer
cell.&#x 1; By employing mathematical and computational modeling,
bioinformatics, data-mining tools, and quantitative experiments, GNS
makes drug discovery more predictive for pharmaceutical and biotech
companies.&#x 1; GNS will be&#x 1;exhibiting at BioITWorld Booth 334. &#x 1;

Company:  IBM Life Sciences
Ticker Symbol:  IBM
Booth:  502
Media Contact:  Theo Chisholm
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Company URL:  www.ibm.com/lifesciences

Company description: IBM Life Sciences is dedicated to bringing
leading-edge technologies out of IBM's laboratories and into the
marketplace. The unit brings together IBM capabilities, ranging from
high-performance computing and storage offerings to data and knowledge
management software, services and research expertise, to address the
information technology needs of pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
academic research and other life sciences organizations.

IBM is committed to working with Business Partners on information
technology solutions for accessing, integrating, analyzing and
managing an ever-growing amount of disparate biological and chemical
data. Since its formation in 2000, IBM Life Sciences has entered into
dozens of collaborations with leading life sciences companies, in
addition to partnerships with major universities and national
laboratories to advance biomedical research.

Company:  MolSoft LLC
Booth: 625
Media Contact: Ruben Abagyan
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL: www.molsoft.com

Product description: ICM is an integrated, multiplatform suite of
software products for computational biologists and chemists in the
areas of bioinformatics, homology modeling, virtual compound
screening, flexible docking, protein design and visualization.
Consisting of unique receptor-flexible docking feature, ICM uses
restrained internal coordinate mechanism combined with novel global
energy optimization procedure.

Company description: MolSoft LLC, founded in 1994 by Prof. Ruben
Abagyan, is committed to scientific excellence and is a primary source
of new breakthrough technologies and original ideas in computational
chemistry and biology. It offers software tools and contract services
in lead discovery, lead optimization, molecular modeling,
cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and corporate data management.

Company:  Procom Technology
Ticker Symbol:  PRCM
Booth: 326
Media Contact:  Jennifer Brannon
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Investor Relations Contact:  Eric Jones
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Company URL: www.procom.com

Product description: The NetFORCE&#x 1; Series of data management
systems has been designed to focus exclusively on storing, sharing,
managing and protecting your company's data across multiple platforms,
while operating within both NAS and optionally within SAN
environments. These comprehensive solutions deliver a powerful means
of enhancing performance, ensuring your company's information is
continuously available, while integrating economically and seamlessly
within your IT infrastructure.

Company description: Procom Technology is a major provider of NAS
(network-attached storage) solutions, with more than 26,000
installations worldwide. Since 1987, Procom has evolved networked
storage to include the current NetFORCE series, providing easy to
implement and manage NAS solutions for small- and medium-size
companies and departments of large organizations.

Company:  Ross Systems
Ticker Symbol:  ROSS
Booth:  609
Media Contact:  Scot McLeod
Investor Relations Contact:  Christine Weinand
Phone:  [phone]
E-mail:  [e-mail]
Company URL:  www.rossinc.com
Press Kit URL:  www.rossinc.com/lifesciences

Product description: iRenaissance ERP from Ross Systems addresses
the materials management, quality control and formula-based
manufacturing requirements of life science companies. Fully supporting
CFR 21 Part 11, iRenaissance provides bi-directional lot and batch
tracing, formula management, attribute matching and expiration date
control. The system also includes a web-based validation application
with a step-by-step process and the master action plan, templates and
test scripts needed to quickly complete the IQ, OQ, and PQ processes.

Company description: Ross Systems, Inc. is a global supplier of
business software solutions designed specifically for Food and
Beverage, Life Sciences, Chemicals, Metals, Natural Products and other
process manufacturers. Ross' Life Science customers include Barr
Laboratories, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Genetics Institute, Cambrex and
Boston Biomedica.

Company: Spinnaker Networks
Booth: 426
Contact: Joy Burd
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL:  www.spinnakernet.com

Spinnaker Networks SpinServer, a next generation network attached
storage server provides limitless scalability, industry-leading
performance and simplified centralized management for biotech and life
sciences' applications. SpinServer transparently scales capacity from
megabytes to petabytes. Storage management is simplified with a global
distributed file system. User transparently access data no matter
where the data resides and without knowing where the data is located
thus providing unsurpassed data accessibility to geographically
dispersed collaboration and research teams. Spinnaker scales single
file system performance across the SpinServer cluster, allowing a
single file system to scale performance into the millions of IOPS.

Company: UCSD Extension
Booth: 627
Media Contact: Elizabeth Hickman
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Company URL: http://extension.ucsd.edu

Product & Company description: UCSD Extension offers a broad array
of courses and certificate programs to meet the continuing education
needs of the life sciences and information technology industries.
These programs support both capability development and career
transition. UCSD Extension is committed to the development of current
curricula and programs addressing new challenges confronting the
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and IT industries. Areas of study
include drug discovery & development, regulatory affairs,
manufacturing/quality systems, bioinformatics, and biobusiness. UCSD
Extension also holds intensive weeklong programs in medicinal
chemistry, microarray technologies, and computer-aided drug design
(CADD), and an array of online courses for distance learners.

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