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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2005 BIOWORLD ® FINANCIAL WATCH PAGE 8of 10Company Acquiring Date Expected Value Terms/DetailsTo Be Acquired* Company* Announced Completion (M)**(Country; Symbol) (Country; Symbol)ParAllele Affymetrix 5/31/05 4Q:05 $120 Definitive agreement calls for Affymetrix toBioScience Inc.* Inc. (AFFX) pay $120M in stock for ParAllele, which hasassay technology and with which it hasbeen partnered for two yearsSahajanand MIV 3/1 1/05 4Q:05 ND The merger would bring together productsMedical Therapeutics and drug-eluting technologies in coronaryTechnologies* Inc. (Canada; stents; Sahajanand’s stents are sold in more(India) OTC BB:MIVT) than 33 countriesShenzhen PG Qiagen NV 9/26/05 4Q:05 $14.5 Qiagen intends to pay $14.5M in cash toBiotech Co Ltd.* (the Netherlands; acquire Shenzhen, a supplier of PCR-based(China) QGEN) molecular diagnostic kits in ChinaTargeted Chromos 5/25/05 4Q:05 C$5 Chromos intends to issue about 20.1MMolecules Molecular (US$4) shares in the deal; TMC is developing twoCorp.* Systems Inc. antibody product candidates(Canada; TSE:CHR)Xtrana Inc. Alpha Innotech 12/14/04 4Q:05 ND Xtrana shareholders would own 17% of the(OTC BB:XTRN) Corp.* combined company following the reversemerger; they would keep the AlphaInnotech nameNotes:# This chart is intended to include not only mergers and acquisitions of entire businesses, but also of divisions or subsidiariesof those businesses, where appropriate. In general, it does not include acquisitions of single products or of manufacturingfacilities.For those deals that are pending, and for which the acquiring company is issuing stock, the value of the transaction wascalculated based on the closing price prior to the first announcement. For stock-based deals that have been completed,the final value was calculated based on the closing price before the merger’s completion was announced.* Private companies are indicated with an asterisk.** Conversions of non-U.S. currencies are calculated using the rate on the date the transaction closed, or for pendingdeals, on the date it was announced.@ The deal occurred before the time frame of this chart but was not included in the previous chart.ND = Not disclosed; N/A = Not applicable.Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange.AIM = Alternative Investment Market; AMEX = American Stock Exchange; ASX = Australian Stock Exchange; LSE = LondonStock Exchange; NYSE = New York Stock Exchange; OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board; PK = Pink Sheets; TSE =Toronto Stock Exchange.To subscribe, please call BIOWORLD ® Customer Service at (800) 688-2421; outside the U.S. and Canada, call (404) 262-5476.Copyright © 2005 Thomson BioWorld ® . Reproduction is strictly prohibited.