Daylight Supports Oracle's Information Architecture for Life Sciences

Business Wire, April 16, 2002

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MISSION VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002

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Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc., the leading cheminformatics innovator in the life sciences industry, today announced its support of Oracle Corporation's (NASDAQ: ORCL) Information Architecture for Life Sciences, an open platform that integrates scientific and business applications for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to unify data and business processes. Daylight is a key software vendor in the life science marketplace, adding the important cheminformatics links in the value chain from drug discovery to sales and marketing. Daylight, Oracle, and their partners enable companies to achieve a unified and global information management strategy quickly, economically, and - thanks to Daylight - with chemical intelligence.

"We welcome Daylight's support of our information architecture initiative," said Jon Simmons, vice president of Life Sciences for Oracle "With their expertise in cheminformatics, we can use DayCart to provide a very potent tool for science customers to standardize chemical information databases to provide a strong integrated solution."

Daylight and Oracle have been working together for several years in bringing the high performance of Daylight's cheminformatics software together with Oracle's industry-standard platform. In July 2000, Daylight released DayCart, a fully integrated set of tools - or cartridge - that extends Oracle clients and servers with chemical intelligence and ability. The cartridge is now used in both large pharmas and small biotechs to achieve easy access to information in data rich environments.

"Daylight has consistently provided flexible tools which have raised the bar of in silico chemistry. Oracle has created the standard database platform for our industry and brought many players to the same table. As a result, the life sciences industry now has informatics and IT capabilities that meet the high demands of specialists, yet are available across entire enterprises," said Yosef Taitz, Daylight CEO.

Last month, at its user group meeting in Santa Fe, NM, Daylight announced new improvements to DayCart to be available in connection with the Oracle9i Database. To achieve the maximum performance in the highly scalable 9i environment, DayCart will have a new internal architecture. While this is transparent to users, the performance is dramatically improved with searches executed 2 - 10X faster. In pre-release tests, databases of 22 million molecular structures were searched in 3 seconds. The enhanced scalability of DayCart for 9i also allows for unlimited molecule and reaction sizes. New types of searches, such as similarity searching on structures, have been optimized for large databases. Finally, new administrative capabilities such as faster index creation and increased control over indexing have also been added. As a result, DayCart is clearly the state-of-the-art in chemical information systems.

By focusing on developing cheminformatics tools for an open architecture and deploying these in an Oracle environment, Daylight leverages its achievements in science and innovation across the broad and expanding landscape of life sciences IT. The advantage is clear: researchers in drug discovery can perform the most sophisticated cheminformatics processes in the same platform, against the same data, as other teams in the organization. From research through sales, everyone works in a unified environment. This environment can be customized using standard database tools that Oracle programmers and DBAs already understand.

About Daylight

Continuously providing the highest performance chemical information processing systems since 1987, Daylight is widely regarded as the leading chemical informatics innovator in the life science industries. Using Daylight tools, researchers and information architects can assemble the ideal chemical information system for any project, regardless of the scale or functionality. Working closely with scientists throughout the life science industries to tackle emerging informatics problems, Daylight facilitates the development of this branch of science while serving the needs of its customers. Daylight CIS, Inc. is a privately held company with corporate offices in Mission Viejo, CA, and research offices in Santa Fe, NM, and in Cambridge, England.

Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. DayCart is a registered trademark of Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc.