Thomson Scientific Announces Strategic Alliance With Collexis to Develop Custom Data Solution for Web of Science Users


Mining
Thomson Collexis Dashboard to Provide Scientists and Researchers with Deep
Analysis, Trending, and Visualization of Published Information

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/—Thomson
Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and
leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and
business communities, and Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:
CLXS), a developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery
software, today announced plans to join together Collexis’ Knowledge
Dashboard with Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science to create a custom data
mining solution for the research community.

Called the Thomson Collexis Dashboard, it will provide enhanced
knowledge discovery for the academic and government R&D;communities. By
merging Thomson Scientific’s Web of Science data with the Collexis
Knowledge Dashboard, users will have the ability to identify and search for
documents, experts and trends, and make new discoveries more quickly,
accurately and deeply than via conventional search engines.

“By marrying the data and functionality of our technology and domain
expertise in the life sciences with Thomson Scientific’s extensive research
journal database, we are enabling users to take their research to the next
level,” said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Holdings, Inc. “The Thomson
Collexis Dashboard will offer expanded capabilities for researchers to
search and analyze journals and cited research back to 1985, as well as use
this unique resource to discover emerging research paths, new hypotheses
and experts.”

The Thomson Collexis Dashboard is a custom software and information
solution that enables scientists to analyze large numbers of publications
concerning a defined topic swiftly and efficiently, and filter the
essential information. Additionally, it allows researchers to explore
existing knowledge concepts and provides proactive suggestions about the
direction of research across a topic or by category. It also includes
multiple thesauri that allow different points of view on the same data and
subject navigation. A time-saving solution for scientists, the Thomson
Collexis Dashboard includes summarized information which is not to be found
in any system currently available, and provides identification of experts
across categories on multiple subsets of the literature instantly --
including their relevant social network.

The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and
retrospective multidisciplinary information from close to 9,500 of the most
prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Web of Science
also provides a unique search method through cited reference searching.
With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature,
searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information
relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text
journal articles.

“Thomson Scientific is dedicated to providing our customers with
powerful ways to mine the published literature,” said Dave Kochalko, vice
president, business strategy at Thomson Scientific. “Turning the Collexis
engine on Web of Science will expose new insights and give users the tools
to make ground breaking discoveries on specific topics in the life
sciences, such as Alzheimer’s or Diabetes, or any research discipline.”

For more information about an upcoming web overview of the custom
designed dashboards for Web of Science, please e-mail:

About Collexis Holdings, Inc.

Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of high definition search
and knowledge discovery software since 1999, headquartered in Columbia,
South Carolina (USA) with major operations in Cincinnati, Ohio,
Geldermalsen, the Netherlands and Cologne, Germany. Collexis now offers the
world’s first pre- populated professional social network for life science
researchers, http://www.biomedexperts.com. Collexis’ proprietary technology
builds conceptual profiles of text, called Fingerprints, from documents,
Websites, emails and other digitized content and matches them with a
comprehensive list of pre-defined “fingerprinted” concepts to make research
results more relevant and efficient. This matching of concepts eliminates
the ambiguity and lack of priority associated with word searches. The
results are often described as “finding needles in many haystacks.” Through
this novel approach, Collexis can build unique applications to search,
index and aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend and predict
data based on sources in multiple industries without the limitations of
language or dialect. Collexis’ current clients in the public, private and
academic sectors include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; the
University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina;
Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the
World Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of
Health; and the U.S. Department of Defense. Shares of Collexis common stock
are traded under the symbol CLXS on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTC BB). For
more information, visit http://www.collexis.com.

About The Thomson Corporation

The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com) is a global leader in
providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and
professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn.,
Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications
to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services,
scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are
listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its
information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and
development-from discovery to analysis to product development and
distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at
scientific.thomson.com.

SOURCE Thomson Scientific