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INCOGEN, Inc. 
110 Liberty Drive, Suite 104 
Clemson, SC 29631 
Tel: 800-286-6599 
Fax: 864-654-0887 
http://www.incogen.com  
email: info@incogen.com 

INCOGEN receives NIST ATP award to develop an open communications protocol for web services-based analyses for life sciences.

Clemson, SC. July 27, 2001. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded INCOGEN a two million dollar grant under the Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The funding will serve to develop and implement a homogenous protocol based on XML and web services technology and to provide scientists with access to diverse tools for genomic analysis. 

"The vast amounts of data available today provide unprecedented opportunities for discoveries in health care, biotechnology, and agriculture. The lack of interoperable tools and data integration has long been a thorn in the sides of both bioinformaticists and biologists," said INCOGEN's founder and CEO, Dr. Maciek Sasinowski, in announcing the reception of the award. "We're quite excited and grateful that an organization like NIST realizes the scope of the challenge and agrees that our proposed approach provides the community with the best attempt to solve that problem."

Dr. Arkesh Mehta, Chief Information Officer of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), expressed his positive feelings about INCOGEN's task. "As one of the founding members of the Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C), INCOGEN already showed its strong commitment to solving the current interoperability and integration problem in life sciences. This award validates INCOGEN's approach and provides the company with a means to actually make this happen." 

Technical details of the proposed work will be released over the next several weeks at upcoming I3C events. 

About INCOGEN, Inc. 
INCOGEN focuses on computational solutions to the complex challenges faced by researchers in genomics. Through joint research efforts involving scientists from both public and private institutions, INCOGEN continues to be one of the innovators in the field of bioinformatics. INCOGEN provides the research community with avenues to accelerate genomic discovery through the development of innovative data visualization tools, image recognition software and new data analysis and data mining approaches. INCOGEN is located at 110 Liberty Drive, Suite 104, Clemson, SC 29631. For further information, see www.incogen.com. Email to info@incogen.com or telephone 864-654-0887. Fax 864-654-0887.

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