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Collexis New Online Social Network, BioMedExperts, to Improve Collaboration Among Medical Researchers

Site Launches with 1.4 Million Pre-Generated Expert Profiles

Jan. 11, 2008, COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Collexis Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, today announced the debut of BioMedExperts (http://www.biomedexperts.com) -- the first online social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers and therefore advance medical science. Collexis launched the new service with more than 1.4 million pre-generated profiles of its expected users from across 120 countries and expects to grow by another two million profiles over the next few months.

"Where first generation social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn require users to enter data, BioMedExperts is a life science open platform that goes to the next level - it continuously captures the research activity of experts worldwide, serving as a definitive source to identify relationships to others within the community, either by topic or geography," said Bill Kirkland, CEO of Collexis.

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