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ChemZoo Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance

Wake Forest, NC, March 27th, 2008 — ChemZoo Inc. announced today that it has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working to enhance collaboration among life sciences organizations to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development.

“Collaborative science is facilitated by a common development platform and cooperation between informatics companies,” said Antony Williams, President of ChemZoo. “The ChemSpider Free Access website has been delivered with the intention of building a structure centric community for chemists and is happy to contribute to the Microsoft BioIT Alliance initiative. As a leader in the domain of online chemistry data management we look forward to collaborating with Microsoft BioIT alliance partners. In these efforts we believe that ChemSpider as a common public access data platform will allow BioIT members to source information and connect to a database allowing their users to solve problems more quickly. By providing a platform for crowdsourcing enhancement of an online chemistry resource researchers around the world will have access to community-based data and knowledge.”

Rudy Potenzone, Worldwide Industry Technology Strategist for Pharmaceuticals and BioIT Alliance Director, said: “We are thrilled to have ChemZoo join the Alliance.  The ChemSpider team has created in a short time an important free resource for the scientific community in an innovative and collaborative environment that will be a model for future projects in scientific information.  We welcome their participation.”

 The BioIT Alliance is designed to enable collaboration among organizations in the life sciences field in order to shorten the time between discovery of new biological data and the application of that knowledge to human health. ChemZoo will enhance their ChemSpider platform in collaboration with other alliance members to provide access in a manner enabling collaborative science and, where appropriate, public chemistry-based knowledge management.

About ChemZoo

ChemZoo, Inc., was founded with the intention of providing online chemistry software and services to help build a chemical structure centric community for chemists. Their first offering, ChemSpider, is a chemistry search engine built with the intention of aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it available to everybody, at no charge. Founded in 2007 and located in Raleigh, North Carolina, ChemSpider intends to become a facilitator in the exchange of structure-based information between chemists worldwide. For further information, see www.chemspider.com

About BioIT Alliance

Formed in 2006, the BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working to integrate science and technology in order to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and realize the potential of personalized medicine. Founding members include Accelrys Software Inc., Affymetrix, Inc., Agilent Technologies Inc., Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems, The BioTeam Inc., Digipede Technologies LLC, Discovery Biosciences Corporation, Geospiza Inc., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Illumina Inc., InterKnowlogy, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc., The Scripps Research Institute, VizX Labs LLC and other key companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries. Additional information about the BioIT Alliance can be found on the BioIT Alliance Web site at http://www.bioitalliance.org.

  About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com.