2005 10-12

Beijing, P.R. CHINA and SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 11, 2005 -- CapitalBio Corporation, a leading life science company based in Beijing, P.R. China, and Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) announced plans to launch an initiative to support and promote rice functional genomic research in China. Under the initiative, CapitalBio, as an Affymetrix authorized service provider in China, will provide Affymetrix GeneChip ^® Rice Genome Array services to the Chinese Rice Functional Genomic Research Consortium (CRGRC), which consists of more than a dozen top research institutes, National Key Laboratories and universities.