West Lebanon NH 07|28|01

For Immediate Release

TEXTCO LAUNCHES ENHANCED WEBSITE OFFERING POWERFUL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS

West Lebanon, New Hampshire -- October 31, 2001 -- Textco, Inc. a leading developer of molecular biology software, announced today that its website (http://www.textco.com) has been re-designed from the ground up for scientists involved in drug discovery and disease research.

"We believe that customer service is as important as delivering quality software. From Textco's newly re-designed website, Gene Construction KitTM and Gene InspectorTM customers can easily download free maintenance updates and database research tables. Prospective customers can download free demonstration versions and tutorials," said Dr. Robert H. Gross, President of Textco, Inc.

Maintenance updates for all of Textco's products can be now easily and immediately be downloaded from Textco’s new website. Restriction Enzyme and Prosite databases are custom-formatted and are available at no charge to customers at http://www.textco.com/downloads/databases.html.

Textco's Products
Gene Construction KitTM (GCK) is an award-winning productivity tool developed for DNA manipulation, cloning design, and creating illustrations. GCK provides a way to manipulate DNA sequences with an intuitive graphical interface -- the way biologists think about and illustrate their cloning projects. The graphical interface provides a natural way to present and assemble the many steps needed in cloning projects. A proven research tool, GCK is used by thousands of researchers worldwide. GCK is available for Macintosh and Windows.

Gene InspectorTM (GI) is a unique combination of a versatile electronic laboratory research notebook and a comprehensive sequence analysis product. By combining analyses with a powerful notebook, GI provides the unique ability to keep notes and the analysis output in a single location. GI’s 'Analysis Setups' provide a way to define an analysis (or multiple analyses) with all its parameters and to save it as a menu item for future use, enabling everyone in the group to get consistent results. Gene Inspector is available for Macintosh.

Customer Comments on Textco's Customer Support:

"I have found Textco to be one of the best software companies when it comes to deal with them over support and technical questions regarding their products."
L.V., Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham

"Support for Textco's products is outstanding. I have received updates, free of charge, to the original program that I purchased. In addition, whenever I had a problem or question, the answers were forthcoming very quickly, by phone and by email. GCK is a great program with great customer support! In fact, from a customer satisfaction point of view, GCK is the best software purchase I have ever made."
E.C., Queen's University, Canada

About Textco
Textco, Inc., located in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, has been serving the software needs of molecular biologists since 1984. Textco's mission is to provide high quality, easy-to-use software to assist molecular biologists in their research efforts. Textco has provided its solutions to over 20,000 scientists worldwide engaged in disease research and drug discovery.

Textco, Inc. has been developing high quality molecular biology software for the Macintosh since 1984.