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KIRCHHEIM-HEIMSTETTEN, Germany -- Today, science factory and Sun Microsystems announce the availability of uberTOOL on Solaris at a partner showcase at the RECOMB 2003. The new release of uberTOOL, Version 1.1, features an inbuild support for the distribution of computational tasks in research. This is shown at the RECOMB 2003, the seventh annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology in Berlin, on a Sun Blade2000. Successful life science companies will operate at the confluence of the global community's needs and information technology capabilities. Networks that enable B2C, B2B, and other processes across vertical and horizontal industries will be a must. More and more, organizations are using the Internet to create exchanges and to improve collaboration and intellectual property management. Life science-related basic research and medical product development require highly capable IT infrastructures. Sun and its technology partners provide the information backbone and best-of-breed solutions needed to meet the diverse needs of the life sciences community -- spanning from desktops to teraflops and beyond -- with real end-to-end solutions designed for this highly regulated community. With demand expected to grow past terabytes and gigaflops, high-performance hardware, software, Java, networking, and storage technology will help customers develop the unforeseen innovations of tomorrow. Sun offers competitively priced high-performance products -- built from the ground up with high-throughput networking in mind -- that feature reliability, availability, and scalability in single-CPU desktops as well as massively scalable systems and compute-farm products. science factory's uberTOOL is a software system for the integration and analysis of molecular biological data. The new system provides scientists with over 200 types of bioinformatic methods and enables access to public biological databases and proprietary data including all uberTOOL results. Using an integrated programming language, the customer can also easily extend the core functions. Interactive browsers for different biological data types and diverse expansion possibilities simplify the collaboration of the various users within the scalable client-server system in a unique way. While the client operates under Solaris, Linux and various Windows operating systems, the server requires Linux or Solaris. "uberTOOL is surely the 'killer-application' for Solaris in life science research organizations," states Hans Gerke Manager Industry Solutions Sun Microsystems GmbH. "It enables a highly flexible and scalable workflow engine, targeted to the complex research questions in bioinformatics." "Sun hardware and Solaris is the preferred platform for the high throughput analyses of biological data with its superior fast database access and file IO," said Olav Zimmermann, Director of Sales, SCIENCE FACTORY GmbH, "and now even more with the new release 1.1 of uberTOOL and its ability to distribute workflows to arbitrary many Sun servers." science factory is a bioinformatics company providing intelligent software solutions for modern genome and proteome research. Rapid advancement and automation in research is leading to a flood of information from various sources and of varying quality in many different formats. At the same time, new methods of analyzing this information are constantly being developed. science factory's products support research procedures intelligently and efficiently and thus ensure the customer a head start on the competition toward the decoding of various genomes as well as in the development of new medications and products. For more information visit the web site, www.science-factory.com. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at www.sun.com.