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To: nigel bates who wrote (10)	12/5/2001 7:46:22 AM
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Ciphergen Announces ProteinChip(R) Biomarker System FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Ciphergen Biosystems announced today the introduction of the new ProteinChip Biomarker System -- the first protein biochip-based system on the market enabling biomarker pattern recognition analysis. The system allows researchers to ask and rapidly answer important clinical questions by investigating the proteome from crude clinical samples ranging from laser capture micro-dissected cells, biopsies, tissue, urine and serum using Ciphergen's patented ProteinChip Array based Expression Difference Mapping(TM) and integrated SELDI-TOF-MS detection processes. The system utilizes Biomarker Patterns(TM) software, which automates pattern recognition-based statistical analysis methods to correlate protein expression patterns from clinical samples with disease phenotypes. ``Studies conducted at both Johns Hopkins Medical School and other cancer research centers have shown significant clinical sensitivity and specificity in classifying disease phenotypes, leading to the potential for predictive diagnosis and early detection of diseases using this approach,'' stated William E. Rich, President & CEO of Ciphergen. The ProteinChip Biomarker System enables biomarker discovery in days and validation of large sample sets within weeks. The advanced robotics system accessory automates sample processing allowing for hundreds of samples to be run per week enabling sufficient number of samples to be run to provide high statistical confidence in comprehensive studies for marker discovery and validation The ProteinChip Biomarker System combines Ciphergen's proven technology with Biomarker Patterns software, ready to use profiling kits, accelerating the system to a fully versatile clinical proteomics platform for scientists in the fields of clinical disease and toxicological research, pharmaceutical research and development, and clinical diagnostics...