Released on: October 20, 2007, 10:22 am

Press Release Author: Ravi Kumar K.

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: BioMinds LifeSciences today announced the release of its
pioneering product PathoOligoDB(TM), a comprehensive database containing extensive
information on validated and published qPCR oligos and related resources for
pathogen detection. The database is free for academic use.

Press Release Body: Hyderabad, India - October 19, 2007, BioMinds LifeSciences Pvt
Ltd., Hyderabad, India, today announced the release of one of its pioneering
products for researchers working on pathogen detection using qPCR in laboratories
around the globe. PathoOligoDB(TM) is an extensive and carefully curated database
containing a wide array of information on pathogen detection using the widely
applied qPCR technique.

The product is absolutely free for academic use and currently holds curated
information of bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens. As of now, PathoOligoDB(TM)
contains about 2978 specific oligos for 1023 pathogenic genes reported in about 150
pathogenic organisms, 1200 specific sample information and 1455 enzymes from about
35 journals. Besides this, researchers will also find extensive information on
relevant experimental recipes such as buffers, other chemicals and reagents, and
relevant vendor information for the resources mentioned.

PathoOligoDB(TM) is equipped with an innovative algorithm to quickly search for the
oligos and related resources based on search filtering specified by the user. Users
can search for oligos using the pathogen name, gene symbol, assay application, oligo
sequence information, PubMed ID, oligo design vendors, and types of popular
detection chemistries such as: TaqMan®, TaqMan MGB, Molecular Beacon, SYBR® Green,
LNA®, and FRET etc.

\"According to ABRF 2007 Nucleic Acid Research Group Survey", qPCR is the third most
opted pathogen detection approach among researchers around the world. We have
designed PathoOligoDBTM after understanding the importance and the demand for
instant information on optimized oligos, which would save the valuable time and cost
involved in manual designing of oligos.", says Dr. Ravi Kumar, Director of BioMinds
LifeSciences Pvt Ltd. He invites the researchers to submit the validated oligos data
to further strengthen the database and make it available for the research community.

Learn more about PathoOligoDB(TM) at : www.pathooligodb.com


About BioMinds LifeSciences Pvt. Ltd:

BioMinds LifeSciences is a company situated in Hyderabad, a city of Biotech, Pharma
and IT companies hub of India. BioMinds is conceptualized and driven by the group of
Bio-IT professionals, who has passion for bridging Biology, IT, and Business.
BioMinds offers the various Life Science informatics solutions: Datacuration,
Databases, Software designing, Business Analysis and Statistical analysis services
to Biotech and Pharmaceutical organizations. BioMinds also offers the industry
driven research and training programs to undergraduates and postgraduates.

The other couple of databases and desktop software products are in the pipeline to
serve the life science informatics researchers needs. For more information about
BioMinds products please visit: http://www.biominds.org.in/Prod_Overview.html

The researchers laboratories/ diagnostic labs/funding agencies are also invited for
their valuable contribution and promote the only database of this kind. For more
details write to ravi@biominds.org.in


Web Site: http://www.pathooligodb.com

Contact Details: BioMinds Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.
#4-6-258, 2nd Floor,
Hutch Tower Building, Esamia Bazar, Koti, Hyderabad-500027
Andhra Pradesh, India.
Tel:+91 40-32401470
Fax:+91 40-30224849
info@biominds.org.in
www.biominds.org.in,