White Point Systems: Press Release 6/15/96

WHITE POINT SYSTEMS, INC.

PRESS RELEASE

CONTACT:
Gregg R. Dietzman
White Point BioMarine, Inc.
(360) 378-7292

FOR RELEASE: June 15, 1998

WHITE POINT BIOMARINE INSTALLS NAPIS^TM ENTERPRISE AT WYETH-AYERST RESEARCH
(Friday Harbor, WA) -- White Point BioMarine, Inc. (WPBM, a privately held company), announces today a licensing agreement and installation of NAPIS Enterprise client/server database software at Wyeth-Ayerst Research (Pearl River, NY), a division of American Home Products Corporation.

Wyeth-Ayerst Research will use NAPIS Enterprise to support their natural products drug discovery program by integrating bioassay data and field biology data to allow query for important organism group / chemical structure / biological activity relationships, in addition to specimen and sample data management. Groups providing Wyeth-Ayerst Research with natural products source materials will use NAPIS Lite for data entry and management.

NAPIS (NAtural Products Information System) supports drug discovery researchers at the government, industry, and university level by providing a link between the library, laboratory, and the field. The incorporation of geographic information system (GIS) technology allows traditional database tables to be related to spatial features on computer-based maps. Researchers can query using the GIS map and drill down on chemical structures, or vice versa, query on source organism / chemistry / bioactivity and show the results on a map. NAPIS is developed within a client/server environment but can also function autonomously, it is modular, scaleable, and secure.

NAPIS is delivered at three levels: NAPIS Enterprise (Oracle), NAPIS Laboratory (Paradox) and the limited feature-set NAPIS Lite (Paradox, free download at www.esri.com). The extended information handling requirements faced by drug discovery programs that screen natural products are met by the NAPIS technology, where they can be converted to assets for guiding future efforts and enhance the probability of success.

White Point BioMarine, Inc., incorporated in 1993, is an innovative service company that supports the pharmaceutical industry with natural products chemistry programs, and the natural resource management industry with environmental assessment services; programs serving both these industries incorporate advanced technologies for information handling. NAPIS was developed in part with grant funds from the US National Cancer Institute, Small Business Innovation Research grant program. WPBM has strategic alliances with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) for GIS, and with Oxford Molecular Group and MDL Information Systems for chemical structure handling technologies.

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