DPII Discovery Partners

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Discovery Partners International, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPII) announced that it will release fourth quarter and year end 2005 financial results, and provide financial guidance for 2006 on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 before the opening of the U.S. financial markets and hold a conference call reviewing its fourth quarter and year end 2005 financial results, which will be publicly available via the Internet beginning with a live webcast at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time, on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. The live webcast and press release will be publicly available on Discovery Partners' website at http://www.discoverypartners.com/. About Discovery Partners Discovery Partners International, Inc. offers integrated services that span the drug discovery continuum, including target characterization, targeted and screening-library design and synthesis, high throughput and high content screening, lead generation and optimization, and gene expression analysis. DPI has actively contributed to dozens of drug discovery collaborations, working on many of the most promising new biological target areas for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Discovery Partners International is headquartered in San Diego, California and has operations in the United States and Europe. Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty. Discovery Partners' actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements due to risks and uncertainties that exist in Discovery Partners' operations, development efforts and business environment, including the risks and uncertainties that are more fully described in Discovery Partners' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and its subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. DATASOURCE: Discovery Partners International, Inc. CONTACT: Michael C. Venuti, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, +1-650-228-1299, ; or Craig Kussman, Chief Financial Officer, +1-858-228-4113, both of Discovery Partners International, Inc. Web site: http://www.discoverypartners.com/

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