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St. Louis, MO, September 13, 2007 –
Sigma-Aldrich (NASDAQ: SIAL) and Ingenuity Systems today
announced a partnership to develop a revolutionary new
search capability to enhance the Sigma-Aldrich Web-based
customer experience. Under the terms of the agreement,
Sigma-Aldrich will leverage Ingenuity’s knowledge
base and integrate its search technology into Sigma-Aldrich’s
life science product portfolio. Ingenuity’s knowledge
base is the world's largest and highest quality repository
of biological and chemical networks created from millions
of expert curated relationships among proteins, genes,
complexes, cells, tissues, drugs, and diseases.
The new search capability will be freely available to
researchers to enable them to rapidly locate and purchase
the Sigma-Aldrich products most relevant to their research.
The search capability will enable researchers to understand
those products in a content-rich environment of highly
relevant biological and chemical relationships.
Dr. David Smoller, President of Sigma-Aldrich’s
Research Biotech business unit, said, "Customers
will not only be able to now utilize our search tools
such as Your Favorite Gene™ (http://www.sigma.com/yfg),
a Web-based tool that enables life science researchers
to match gene information to thousands of Sigma-Aldrich
products against their gene of interest, but this partnership
will also extend customers’ searches to much broader
biological queries around disease, function, and pathways.”
Jake Leschly, CEO of Ingenuity, added, “Today’s
increasing emphasis on a systems view of biology is requiring
scientists to design their experiments based on a more
complete and dynamic understanding of biology. Through
this innovative partnership with Sigma-Aldrich, we will
enable researchers to leverage the breath of Ingenuity’s
knowledge and technology to gain scientific insight and
to immediately translate this into more effective experimental
designs and better selection of Sigma-Aldrich products.”
About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life
Science and High Technology company. Its biochemical and
organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific
and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development,
the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical
and other high technology manufacturing. The Company has
customers in life science companies, university and government
institutions, hospitals, and in industry. Over one million
scientists and technologists use its products. Sigma-Aldrich
operates in 36 countries and has 7,700 employees providing
excellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed
to Accelerating Customer Success through Leadership in
Life Science, High Technology and Service. For more information
about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit its award-winning Web
site at sigma-aldrich.com.
Trials of Ingenuity Pathways Analysis 5.0 are currently
being offered at http://www.ingenuity.com/trial.
For more information about Ingenuity Pathways Analysis,
please email sales@ingenuity.com
or go to www.ingenuity.com
About Ingenuity Systems®
Ingenuity enables researchers to model, analyze, and understand
complex biological and chemical systems foundational to
human health and disease. The Ingenuity products include
pathways analysis software and knowledge bases for life
scientists and bioinformaticians, and enterprise knowledge
management infrastructure, content and services for leading
pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Ingenuity was founded
in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California
with offices in Germany, Switzerland, France, the United
Kingdom, and Japan. www.ingenuity.com.
Cautionary Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements relating
to future performance, goals, strategic actions and initiatives
and similar intentions and beliefs and other statements
regarding the Companies’ expectations, goals, beliefs,
intentions and the like, which involve assumptions regarding
the Companies’ operations and conditions in the markets
the Companies serve. The Companies do not undertake any
obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Heidi Bullock
Director, Marketing
Ingenuity Systems
650.381.5150
hbullock@ingenuity.com
Sean Battles
Sigma-Aldrich
314-286-7616
sean.battles@sial.com
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