Contact: Howard Berke
CEO
(978) 934-8821, Ext. 401
E-mail: hberke@anvilinformatics.com

June 13, 2000

Industry Veteran Dr. Frank Hurley Elected AnVil Informatics's Chairman of the Board

Lowell, MA -- AnVil Informatics, Inc. has named Frank Hurley, Ph.D. as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. AnVil has also secured additional working capital resources through an "angel" financing in which Potomac Healthcare Ventures participates.

"As the co-founder of BRI and former CSO of Quintiles, Dr. Hurley has salient experience and in-depth knowledge of how to build a successful professional service company from ground up." said Howard Berke, AnVil's Chief Executive Officer. "Dr. Hurley is highly regarded in the pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostic fields. These are the market segments which are the initial client focus of AnVil. Dr. Hurley will provide invaluable guidance on the company's future direction and operation."

"AnVil Informatics has already established itself with a viable business model, experienced management team, knowledgeable scientific advisory committee and having secured initial consulting client companies." said Dr. Hurley. "I look forward to continuing to work with the team in this exciting and emerging bioinformatics field to further enhance Anvil's market leadership."

Dr. Frank Hurley was a co-founder of Biometric Research Institute (later known as BRI International) where he held a position of Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer until BRI's merger with Quintiles Transnational Corporation (NasdaqNM:QTRN). He served as Quintiles Chief Scientific Officer and currently is holding a position of Senior Scientist. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Georgetown University.

Dr. Hurley received his BS in Mathematics from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from John Hopkins University.

Founded in 1999, AnVil Informatics, Inc. provides data mining and visualization services to leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. AnVil's combination of unique, internally developed software and commercial tools allows for the exploration of complex, large and high dimensional datasets. In addition, AnVil's technical experts harness different properties of human perception such as color, texture and shape in the process of visualizing various attributes of the complex data and their full distributions. The resulting visualizations make conclusions more evident earlier in the decision making process and can greatly enhance every step of the client's decision making process--helping them to make informed decisions faster and more accurately.

To learn more about AnVil's capabilities and offerings, visit the web site at www.anvilinformatics.com.