Leader in sequence search supports multi-company life sciences initiative to help realize the promise of personalized medicine.

Westborough, Massachusetts - February 12, 2007 – Gene-IT, a leader in sequence search for research and IP, today announced that it has joined the BioIT Alliance, a collaborative group of pharma, biotech, hardware and software companies working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine.

The goal of the Alliance is to explore and develop new means of sharing critical life sciences data, and promote greater collaboration between disciplines to enable faster discovery.

Ronald Ranauro, President and CEO of Gene-IT, said, "Gene-IT is pleased to join the BioIT Alliance, and support the Alliance's mission of creating new efficiencies and sharing strategies among researchers and technicians. The industry has long needed more conceptual and technological advances along collaborative lines, and we feel that the Alliance is an excellent initiative in this direction."

Don Rule, Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor and director of the BioIT Alliance, noted, "The Alliance is delighted to have Gene-IT among its members. The company adds novel search and analytics technologies and methodologies, along with deep integrated data sources for genomic sequences."

About the BioIT Alliance

Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working together to improve biomedical information technology on the Microsoft platform. Founding members include Affymetrix, Inc., Accelrys Software Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC, Discovery Biosciences Corporation., Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc., VizX Labs LLC and other key companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries. Additional information about the BioIT Alliance can be found on the BioIT Alliance Web site at www.bioitalliance.org.

About Gene-IT

Gene-IT's innovative sequence search technology provides relevant answers to questions about the human genome asked by scientists and attorneys today, and by clinicians and physicians in the future. The company's flagship product, GenomeQuest, is an easy-to-use Web-based application that integrates, mines and analyzes sequence data from dozens of scientific and patent sources worldwide. GenomeQuest's proprietary sequence search capabilities help the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies make faster and more accurate decisions on their gene and protein discoveries. Its automated alerting, report publishing and knowledge-sharing capabilities enhance the productivity of all users. Gene-IT is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts.

For more information, please call (508) 616-0100, or visit our web site: www.genomequest.com.