BioWisdom Launches OmniViz Academic Program

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - November 16, 2007) - BioWisdom has launched an exclusive program that gives access to its OmniViz visualization and analysis software to academics and not-for-profit organisations at a heavily discounted price of $999. "In the last few years BioWisdom has created a world class capability for providing healthcare intelligence to the pharmaceutical industry," said Gordon Baxter, CEO. "The core of this strategy has been and remains the rapidly emerging field of ontology as applied to life sciences research and development, delivered through BioWisdom's proprietary platform Sofia. BioWisdom is now preparing to enter the next stage of its growth, bringing the value of this leadership in life sciences ontology to the desktops of individual scientists globally through both of the recently acquired technologies, SRS and OmniViz." "OmniViz can analyze extremely large collections of experimental, numerical, categorical, genomic or chemical data, and analyze internal and external literature, patents and competitive intelligence information," added Dr Michael R Stapleton, BioWisdom's Chief Business Officer. "It provides a unique ability to discover, prioritize and test decisions and hypotheses. As part of BioWisdom's long standing collaboration and commitment to the academic and not-for-profit organizations and building on the similar program in place for BioWisdom's bioinformatics platform SRS, we are pleased to be able to make the full power of OmniViz available to the global academic community with the announcement of this exciting program." For more information about OmniViz, including purchasing an academic licence, please visit www.biowisdom.com/content/omniviz. Notes to Editors ABOUT BIOWISDOM 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 acquisition, integration, 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. For further information please visit www.biowisdom.com Contacts: BioWisdom Ltd Gordon Baxter CEO Tel: +44 (0)1223 874800 Email: info@biowisdom.com Website: http://www.biowisdom.com BioWisdom Ltd Mike Stapleton Chief Business Officer Tel: +44 (0)1223 874800 Email: info@biowisdom.com Website: http://www.biowisdom.com The Hogarth Partnership Sarah Richardson / Melanie Toyne Sewell Tel: +44 (0)207 357 9477