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Bio-Rad Wins Awards for
Spectroscopy and Chemistry Software
Other Topics: Genomic
Informatics, Informatics in
Research
MARKET WIRE
August 22, 2006
Hercules, CA -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO) (AMEX:
BIOb), announced today that its Informatics Division received a
Gold Award for its KnowItAll® Informatics System spectroscopy
software and a Silver Award for its KnowItAll Cheminformatics
Edition in Scientific Computing's "2006 Readers' Choice Awards."
This is the ninth year in a row that Bio-Rad has been recognized
for its products in the spectroscopy software category. Each
year, readers select their favorite products in a number of
categories based on quality, reliability, ease-of-use, technical
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"We are honored
to be recognized once again by our customers," said Norman
Schwartz, Bio-Rad President and CEO.
Bio-Rad's KnowItAll Informatics System is a fully integrated
software and database package for multiple spectroscopic
techniques, with tools for database building, management,
search, analysis, prediction, reporting, and spectral reference
databases -- all within a single user interface. The software
also offers a series of solutions for chemistry, chemometrics,
ADME/Tox, and most recently, metabolomics.
The Cheminformatics Edition of KnowItAll is a complete unified
system used to draw, modify, store, search, and retrieve
chemical structures and other relevant information. The software
is designed for the management of chemical structures or for
chemical inventory management.
Bio-Rad's Informatics Division specializes in software and
database solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical
industries. Bio-Rad is the leading publisher of fully verified
spectral databases, cheminformatics, spectroscopy software, and
decision support systems for drug discovery. For more
information, visit www.informatics.bio-rad.com.
About Bio-Rad
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO) (AMEX: BIOb) has remained
at the center of scientific discovery for more than 50 years
manufacturing and distributing a broad range of products for the
life science research and clinical diagnostics markets. The
company is renowned worldwide among hospitals, universities,
major research institutions as well as biotechnology and
pharmaceutical companies for its commitment to quality and
customer service. Founded in 1952, Bio-Rad is headquartered in
Hercules, California, and serves more than 75,000 research and
industry customers worldwide through its global network of
operations. The company employs over 5,000 people globally and
had revenues of $1.1 billion in 2005. For more information,
visit www.bio-rad.com.
Various statements made within this press release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" for the purposes of the Securities
and Exchange Commission's "safe harbor" provisions under the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Rule 3b-6
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking
statements contained herein involve risks and uncertainties that
could cause results to differ materially from the Company's
expectation.
For more information, contact:
Tina Cuccia
Corporate Communications Manager
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
510-724-7000 |
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