PRESS RELEASE (28th November 1997) Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH Yvonne Schickel (phone: +49-69-7917 410; e-mail: yschickel@beilstein.com) Beilstein Information Systems Inc. Timberlyn Cohen (phone: +1-303-397 2968; e-mail: tcohen@beilstein.com) For Immediate Release Frankfurt Chemical Information Company wins European IT Prize Frankfurt, Germany - Beilstein Information Systems' chemical information system CrossFireplusReactions has been honoured with the 1997 European Information Technology Prize: a première for chemistry. On Nov. 25th in Brussels, Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission, awarded the Frankfurt-based company this prestigious prize "for excellence in converting results from information technology research to innovative products for the marketplace". CrossFireplusReactions is a desktop product containing information on 10 million chemical reactions, principally benefiting research institutions in academia and industry worldwide. Speaking for the company, Prof. Dr. Alexander Lawson, Director of Research & Development, said: "We are delighted with this award in recognition of the pioneering work performed by our Frankfurt team. Germany has a long tradition at the forefront of chemical information, and this confirms that our high quality workmanship in this area continues to lead the field. This is the first time that chemical IT has won this 'Oscar'." The prize is awarded yearly by the European Commission to the 25 most novel products with a high IT content and evident market potential. A total of 319 entries from companies in 27 countries were considered in the course of 1997, and the award ceremony for the selected winners from all areas of information technology took place during the EITC'97 exhibition in Brussels. Further winners from Germany were the Munich company Hyperwave GmbH (Grand Prize) and the Steinbeis-Transferzentrum (Heidelberg). (c) Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH (c) Beilstein Data by Beilstein Chemiedaten und Software GmbH, Beilstein Institut fuer Literatur der organischen Chemie CrossFire(tm) is a trademark of Beilstein Information. All other trademarks are the property of their holders. chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)