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November 17, 2000

AnVil Obtains Multiple Consulting Contracts within 90 Days of Incorporation

Lowell, MA -- AnVil Informatics, Inc., a data exploration company, today announced that it has received professional services contracts from several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including ArQule, Genzyme Molecular Oncology, and PolyGenyx.

"We are delighted to work with so many industry leaders in the genomics and drug discovery field. These service contracts provide AnVil with a great opportunity to apply our technical expertise and unique software tools to solve real-life problems." said Dr. Michael J. McManus, AnVil's President and COO. "These services contracts also serve as a validation of our business model and clearly show there are needs in the market for this type of informatics professional services. AnVil's data mining and data visualization expertise offer a flexible and customized solution to these industry needs."

Founded in 1999 and incorporated earlier this year, AnVil Informatics, Inc. provides data mining, analysis, and visualization services to the 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 datasets. The resulting visualizations greatly enhance every step of both a client's discovery as well as decision making process-generating informed decisions faster and more accurately.

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

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