Reno, NV, July 14, 2008 – Biotique Systems announced today that it has licensed XRAY Excel Array Analysis software to PDL Biosciences.  XRAY is a gene expression analysis system for analyzing Affymetrix Microarrays.

Edward Tom of PDL Biosciences said “XRAY is a very efficient tool to quickly normalize and analyze multiple Affymetrix Exon array data with the rigors of relevant statistical methods.  XRAY also provides a very user-friendly graphical interface and display for examining potential alternative exon usage events.”

About Biotique XRAY:
-Is a fast, accurate, and powerful Microsoft® Excel® ‘add-in’ that performs normalization and analysis on thousands of arrays even on a modest laptop computer.
-Finds differential gene expression and alternative splicing with exon, gene, and 3’ expression arrays.
-Identifies potential binding regions with Affymetrix tiling arrays.
-Self documents results and methods with an auto-generated Word document.

About Biotique Systems, Inc.
Biotique Systems is a privately held company that helps pharmaceutical, agriculture and biotechnology companies increase productivity by providing customizable, enterprise-wide solutions for integrating, analyzing and sharing knowledge assets. By bringing together people, projects, disparate data sources and workflow applications Biotique Systems is helping leading companies such as Bayer-Schering Pharma, Monsanto and Affymetrix integrate information from discovery programs across disparate research disciplines and geographic locations to facilitate innovation and discovery.

Biotique is enabling the next generation of pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biotechnology discovery and development. For more information about Biotique Systems, call 775-787-9900, e-mail inquire@biotiquesystems.com, or visit www.biotiquesystems.com