Now that you've found us, we want to make sure that you take full advantage of everything BioWorld Online has to offer. Please take a few minutes to let us walk you through the features that make BioWorld Online so unique and valuable.

• The first thing you should do is Register. By registering, you give yourself a unique username and password. If you already have a username and password for our site, you do not need to register again. It costs nothing to register, and it will allow you to access several free areas of our site (Stocks, Patents, and Calendar sections). Once you have registered, go to the User Login box on the home page, enter your user id and password, and click on the Login button. Now you are ready!

• The real power of BioWorld Online is its ability to search years' worth of archives from all of the BioWorld content resources. For instance, if you want to find out information about Genentech, go to our Advanced Search page and search all of our resources. You will find news articles, financial analyses, executive profiles, contact information, Phase III clinical data and much more. We allow you to search our content for free, but there are charges involved for viewing the articles. You can subscribe to individual resources or the entire site. You may also view articles on a pay-per-view basis.

• BioWorld Today, the BioWorld Today Archive, BioWorld Insight, and BioWorld International are available for individual subscription and are provided in html and Adobe Acrobat PDF. You can browse the current issue of BioWorld Today, BioWorld Financial Watch, or BioWorld International. Or, you can "drill" through the years to access past issues by selecting Browse Archive.

• BioWorld Online provides access to the most comprehensive biotechnology directory on the market. BioScan lets you get an in-depth profile of every major biotech and biopharmaceutical company, its officers and its products. Do a search for Amgen and see what we mean.

• Want to know the salaries the CEO, CFO or chief R&D executives at the major publicly traded biotech companies make each year? Take a look at the intriguing BioWorld Executive Compensation Report. You might be surprised!

• The BioWorld Phase III Report will allow you to find out what products, categories, and companies are in Phase III trials. This information is updated quarterly and is searchable.

• Summarizing the myriad biotech financial deals that take place each year is difficult, but the State of the Industry Report has met the challenge. We have produced a comprehensive annual update on the business, science and government regulation of biotechnology. The site carries BioWorld Annual Reports going back to 1998.

• Interested in biotechnology company stock performance? Check out our Stocks section. We update these prices weekly, but provide you with a link to check each company's daily performance. Also, check out our Conference Calendar to see what upcoming biotech conferences BioWorld is supporting.

• Interested in tracking key sectors and indicators within the biotech economy? Try out BioWorld Snapshots, which offers data on IPOs, Public Offerings, Private Offerings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Biotech & Pharma Collaborations, Biotech & Biotech Collaborations, Products on the Market, and Biotech Market Capitalization from 1999 to the present.

• BioWorld Perspectives is our free, weekly e-newsletter offering unique viewpoints on developments within the biotechnology industry. You ll be able to read a variety of opinions and shared insight on the companies, trends, people and events taking place in biotech today. It s a chance to gain better understanding of the meaning behind the news, to make it more relevant, and to see more clearly how it affects you and the industry. And you won't want to miss our ongoing biotech soap opera, "All My Clones." To sign up for BioWorld Perspectives, please click here.

If you spend the time to browse all of the areas of BioWorld Online, we feel confident that you will agree with us that there is not a more comprehensive biotechnology resource to be found anywhere. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to help you.