HEIDELBERG--LION Bioscience has acquired an exclusive commercial license for Sequence Retrieval System technologyfrom the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). One of the most widely used database navigation tools in bioinformatics, the system will become the central technology in LION's Life Science Informatics program, the company stated. A new subsidiary of LION has been established in Cambridge, UK, to market and develop the technology, the company announced.