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Paracel Software Lands on NEC, Mitsubishi Hardware for Japanese Market

Sep 10, 2002

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 - NEC and Mitsubishi Space Software said today they teamed up with Paracel to offer users in Japan NEC Express 5800/Parallel PC-bundled with Paracel's BLAST homology search software.

 

Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

 

Paracel is a unit of Celera Genomics.

 

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