Reno, NV, July 15, 2008 – Biotique Systems announced today that it has licensed XRAY Excel Array Analysis software to University of Maryland Baltimore.  XRAY is a gene expression analysis system for analyzing Affymetrix Microarrays.

Dr. Susan Dorsey of University of Maryland Baltimore said "We utilize the Affymetrix GeneChip Mouse Exon 1.0ST arrays to examine differences in gene expression and alternative splicing in control versus drug treated tissues. In the familiar Microsoft Excel environment, with a few mouse clicks, XRAY enables us to easily and quickly VISUALIZE the alternative usage of one or more exons in transcripts that differ between control and treatment groups. In addition, we can contextualize our results within the genomic locus via seamless integration with the UCSC genome browser. In our experience, XRAY is indispensable for the analysis of exon array data.”

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