Leader in sequence search continues to grow, signing on top patent offices, biotechs, pharmas, and leading biotech law practices worldwide

Westborough, Massachusetts - February 5, 2007 – Gene-IT, a leader in sequence search for research and IP, today announced that in 2006 the company had doubled its customer base for its flagship GenomeQuest™ integrated genomics search service, from 40 at year-end 2005 to 80 customers worldwide.

The company's GenomeQuest™ client base now includes:

-	Two of the top three worldwide patent offices
-	Five of the top ten biotech firms
-	Five of the top ten pharmaceuticals firms
-	And 15 leading biotech law practices

GenomeQuest™ is a sequence search solution that enables biologists to evaluate novel gene sequences, and allows IP lawyers to evaluate freedom-to-operate, patentability, and competitive landscape features for the same sequences. The solution uniquely combines easy-to-use sequence search and analytics with public and proprietary sequence content, including the industry's largest and most complete indexed archive of more than 32 million patented sequences.

Ronald Ranauro, President and CEO of Gene-IT, said, "The growth results from our customers' ability to use GenomeQuest™ to rapidly assemble information and make confident decisions. Furthermore, this growth is coming not just from new customer adoption, but also from expansion of existing accounts to research end-users who traditionally relied on others to assemble this information. To aid this transition, our sales team has positioned itself as a 'trusted advisor' to many of our clients in order to bring the benefits of GenomeQuest™ to the life sciences industry."

Nicholas Mitropoulos, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, said, "Not only has Gene-IT demonstrated a one hundred percent growth in customers in 2006 - from 40 to 80 - but we have also signed on a significant and impressive number of industry leaders. It is clear that life sciences companies are favoring and quickly adopting this new methodology, which enables a single, unified and immediate view of disparate gene sequence information and the IP landscape, as the standard model for their research needs."

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.