PREMIER Biosoft International today announced the world wide release of AlleleID® version 6.

AlleleID®, which helps design microarrays and real time PCR diagnostic assays for pathogen detection or bacterial identification now helps users of PamGene's PamChip® Arrays in designing their own probes.

Palo Alto, California--Oct 30, 2007, PREMIER Biosoft International today announced the world wide release of AlleleID® version 6. AlleleID®, which is the only tool that designs diagnostic assays for both real time PCR and microarrays now supports custom probe design for PamChip® assays. This will enable PamChip® users in designing their own probes to detect genes of interest using PamGene's high precision detection platform.

PamGene's PamChip® Microarrays are based on Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA®), a technique developed at MRC-Holland for copy number detection and mutation studies. The PamChip® Microarray users can study about 400 different markers using a single spot. PamGene’s 3D flow-through microarray technology offers new approaches to drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and basic research.

"PamGene chose us to partner with them in giving the PamChip® Array users a cutting edge and intuitive software product for their probe design needs." said Kay Brown, V.P. Business Development and Marketing.

AlleleID® is a comprehensive desktop tool designed to address the challenges of pathogen detection, bacterial identification or taxa/species discrimination using microarrays and TaqMan® TaqMan® MGB, SYBR® Green and molecular beacon qPCR assays. With ClustalW multiple sequence alignment at its core, AlleleID® can design species specific/cross species probes for microarrays or TaqMan®, TaqMan® MGB, SYBR® Green and molecular beacon qPCR assays.

For details, please visit: http://www.premierbiosoft.com/bacterial-identification/index.html

About PREMIER Biosoft International:
Founded in 1994, the company is a group of computer scientists and molecular biologists dedicated to producing cutting edge intuitive software for the molecular biologist. The goal of the company is to study the most recent innovations in molecular biology and translate them into software products that aid biologists. Additional information about PREMIER Biosoft International can be found at http://www.premierbiosoft.com

Contact:
Arun Apte
PREMIER Biosoft International
650-856-2703
http://www.premierbiosoft.com