Indianapolis, Indiana April 08, 2004: Ocimum Biosolutions announces the launch of their niche product ‘iRNAwiz’ a comprehensive and intuitive tool for the design of siRNA on the 3rd birthday of Ocimum.

iRNAwiz™ provides a comprehensive and intuitive design environment for organization of sequence data, design of siRNAs, and tracking and analysis of successful templates. The tool provides the user with flexibility to define his own search templates, set regions of interest based of wide variety of criterion like ORFs, UTR regions, introns and exons, secondary structures, motifs and domains, and post design analysis of successful siRNA.

RNA interference, described by Science as breakthrough of the year, is one of the most powerful molecular biology tools, with a wide variety of applications. The success of a RNA interference experiment is heavily dependent on the design of short interfering RNA, for specificity and efficiency.

Ms Anuradha Acharya, CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions said, We are very excited at the release of our niche product iRNAwiz. We provide scientists with the essential tools and analytics necessary to speed up and manage their research efficiently.

We have spent a significant amount of time during the development of iRNAwiz to make it more powerful and user friendly. We believe that scientists will be able to significantly speed up their research in the field of siRNA design. iRNAwiz™ represents a major step forward for this field of science.”

About Ocimum Biosolutions

Ocimum Biosolutions is an ISO 9001:2000 certified life sciences contract R&D Company that provides cost-effective customized contract research services and next generation bioinformatics tools & services in the area of genomics, proteomics, laboratory information management (LIMS) for Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry.

The company’s other products include:
(1) sequence analysis package – Genchek™
(2) Microarray data analysis suite- Genowiz™
(3) Gene Optimization tool – OptGene™
(4) Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for R & D labs – Biotracker™
(5) LIMS for pre-clinical research – Toxchek™
(6) Database of flavanoids – Nutrabase™

Ocimum plans to launch a LIMS – Pharmatracker™ targeted towards the Pharmaceutical industry by the end of the year.

Ocimum Biosolutions is a Delaware registered company with its operations at Indianapolis, Indiana and a sales and distribution channel across the world. Ocimum’s Indian arm is located at Hyderabad. For more information on Ocimum Biosolutions and its products, visit www.ocimumbio.com or contact bdm@ocimumbio.com

CONTACT
Contact Person: Ms Anuradha Acharya
Company Name: Ocimum Biosolutions LLC.
Voice Phone Number: (866)-227-7512
Email Address: pr@ocimumbio.com
Website URL: www.ocimumbio.com