GeneBio Launches Updated Phenyx Platform at HUPO 2007

Geneva, Switzerland - October 4, 2007 - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA today announced that it has launched a new version of the Phenyx protein identification and characterization platform that will be first demonstrated at HUPO 2007 in October. This new release groups together a variety of enhancements aimed at smoothing the process workflow and facilitating integration within third-party proteomics pipelines.

Highlights of Phenyx 2.5 include:

• An updated server-side code to accelerate the searches and to more efficiently handle large DNA databanks
• Full integration for the Institute of System Biology's Trans Proteomics Pipeline (TPP/IPP) and Proteome Software's Scaffold
• Enhanced and secured Web services for seamless management and integration of Phenyx into any third party proteomics pipeline
• The development of the Phenyx daemon functionalities to manually and automatically perform batch submissions from any mass spectrometer, including pre-processing steps such as data conversion and peak list filtering

"These latest improvements to Phenyx truly raise the bar for proteomics search engines," said Nasri Nahas, CEO of GeneBio. "Recent backend modifications to the engine give users a more robust and flexible user experience, while recent integration work improves the relevancy of Phenyx within the laboratory environment. Taken as a whole, these changes to an already powerful platform will provide the life science community with an MS data analysis tool essential to any proteomics pipeline and that is extremely hard to beat."

Developed in collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Phenyx is GeneBio’s renowned software platform for the identification and characterization of proteins and peptides from mass spectrometry data, specifically designed to meet the concurrent demands of high-throughput MS data analysis and dynamic results assessment while offering a flexible user experience and an adaptable architecture to help instill confidence in results assessment. (http://phenyx.vital-it.ch/pwi)

GeneBio will be present at HUPO 2007 in Seoul, Korea from October 6 - 10 at booth #C9-2. Please stop by to receive a Phenyx demo or answers to your questions concerning the different Phenyx options, recent partnerships and other GeneBio products as well. For more information concerning Phenyx, please go to www.phenyx-ms.com.

GeneBio contact:
Andrew Smith
Marketing Manager
andrew.smith@genebio.com
Tel. +41.22.702.99.00