Released on = August 6, 2007, 4:28 am

Press Release Author = Premier Biosoft International

Industry = Biotech

Press Release Summary = PREMIER Biosoft International today announced the world wide
release of version 7 of Beacon Designer with support for Scorpions® assays, making
it the only product to include comprehensive support for all the popular qPCR
chemistries.

Press Release Body = PREMIER Biosoft International today announced the world wide
release of Beacon Designer 7.0. Beacon Designer is the most comprehensive desktop
tool for designing real-time PCR assays. Version 7.0 includes support for designing
Scorpions® primers and probes.

Scorpions® are new diagnostic tools for the specific detection of PCR products in
real-time. Scorpions® are reported to perform better under fast cycling conditions,
making the technology ideal in numerous applications such as environmental analysis,
viral load testing and pharmacogenomics.

\"With the release of Beacon Designer Version 7, PREMIER Biosoft International has
further expanded the supported chemistries of what was already the most
comprehensive real time PCR oligo design tool available\" says Kay Brown, V.P.
Business Development and Marketing. \" It is the tool of choice in labs world-wide.
We are proud to have organizations such as NIH, FDA, CDC, USDA, Pfizer, Eli Lilly
and Unilever as our customers.\"

Beacon Designer designs oligos for SYBR® Green, TaqMan®, LNAT spiked TaqMan®,
MethyLight, molecular beacon, NASBA® and FRET assays. Beacon Designer also enables
the design of compatible probes for proven SYBR® Green assays, resulting in cost
savings.

Beacon Designer uses innovative and sophisticated algorithms to ensure assay
success. Primers are designed avoiding regions of significant homology, identified
by automatically interpreting BLAST search results. Primer efficiency is enhanced by
designing them in template-structure-free regions. For multiplexing, Beacon Designer
screens millions of primer probe combinations to design primer probe sets for single
tube multiplex reactions. Whether the need is to incorporate well-proven sets for
some of the templates, or include reference or housekeeping genes for normalization
purposes in the assay, Beacon Designer is fully equipped.

For details, please visit: http://www.premierbiosoft.com/molecular_beacons/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

Web Site = http://www.premierbiosoft.com

Contact Details = Neil Watson
3786, Corina Way, Palo Alto
650-856-2703
650-618-1773
support@premierbiosoft.com