Biobase (company)

Not to be confused with Elsevier BIOBASE.
BIOBASE GmbH
Private
Industry Bioinformatics databases
Founded Wolfenbuettel, Germany (1997)
Headquarters Wolfenbuettel, EU
Key people
 Michael Tysiak (CEO & CFO), Dr. Frank Schacherer (CTO)
Products BIOBASE Knowledge Library, TRANSFAC, Proteome databases, ExPlain,
Services Knowledge process outsourcing, custom curation, ExPlain analysis
Number of employees
 ~150 (2008)

BIOBASE is an international bioinformatics company headquartered in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Its focus is on the generation, maintenance and licensing of databases in the field of molecular biology, and their related software platforms.

History

The company was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany, known today as the Helmholtz Research Centre for Infection Research. The founders were scientists of the GBF Research Group Bioinformatics, headed at that time by Edgar Wingender. The company is now managed by Michael Tysiak (CEO/CFO) and Frank Schacherer (COO).

The company's original product was the TRANSFAC database, a platform for the description and analysis of gene regulatory events and networks. This was subsequently complemented by a number of smaller databases relevant to aspects of gene regulation, and by an early signaling pathway database (TRANSPATH). TRANSPATH constituted the earliest signaling pathway database, alongside the Cell Signaling Network Database (CSNDB) curated by T. Takai at the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) in Tokyo.

By end of 1999, BIOBASE acquired venture capital from the IMH funds, now managed by Triginta Capital, by the MBG (Hannover; until 2007) and the tbg. In 2002, Intec W&G, Tokyo, Japan, invested in the company and remained a shareholder until 2005.

In early 2005, the company acquired the databases produced by Incyte, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, which were operated at the time by Incyte's subsidiary, Proteome Inc in Beverly, MA. The early flagship of Proteome was the Yeast Proteome Database (YPD), which was complemented by a number of similar databases. Their latest achievement before the acquisition was the Human Proteome Survey Database (HumanPSD).

Subsidiaries

BIOBASE GmbH has three fully owned daughter companies: BIOBASE Corporation in Beverly/Massachusetts, USA (since 2005),[1] BIOBASE Databases India Pvt Ltd. in Bangalore, India (since 2006),[2] and BIOBASE Japan K.K. in Yokohama, Japan (since 2007).[3]

Products and services

The company's databases provide manually curated content, collected and structured from peer-reviewed scientific primary publications.

The BIOBASE Knowledge Library (BKL) is an integrated database comprising the following modules:[4]

In addition, BIOBASE has developed the ExPlain system for the biological interpretation of gene expression and proteomics data by integrated functional, promoter and pathway analysis.

The "Gene Regulation Portal" offers a number of earlier revisions of company products free of charge to users from non-profit organizations.

A number of third-party products are also distributed by BIOBASE:

In addition to these products, BIOBASE offers Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services. These may comprise the development and population of customized databases with specific contents, or systematic analyses of gene expression data.

Scientific projects/research

BIOBASE is a member of the following publicly funded research consortia, the first two of them being coordinated by BIOBASE (Alexander Kel):[15]

In addition, BIOBASE has entered research partnerships with

See also

References

  1. ↑ BIOBASE acquires Proteome from Incyte
  2. ↑ BIOBASE opens Bangalore office Archived May 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ BIOBASE opens Yokohama office
  4. ↑ Wingender, E; Crass, T; Hogan, JD; Kel, AE; Kel-Margoulis, OV; Potapov, AP (2007). "Integrative content-driven concepts for bioinformatics "beyond the cell"". Journal of Biosciences. 32 (1): 169–80. doi:10.1007/s12038-007-0015-2. PMID 17426389.
  5. ↑ Matys, V; Kel-Margoulis, OV; Fricke, E; Liebich, I; Land, S; Barre-Dirrie, A; Reuter, I; Chekmenev, D; et al. (2006). "TRANSFAC and its module TRANSCompel: transcriptional gene regulation in eukaryotes". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D108–10. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj143. PMC 1347505Freely accessible. PMID 16381825.
  6. ↑ Krull, M; Pistor, S; Voss, N; Kel, A; Reuter, I; Kronenberg, D; Michael, H; Schwarzer, K; et al. (2006). "TRANSPATH: an information resource for storing and visualizing signaling pathways and their pathological aberrations". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D546–51. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj107. PMC 1347469Freely accessible. PMID 16381929.
  7. 1 2 3 Costanzo, MC; Crawford, ME; Hirschman, JE; Kranz, JE; Olsen, P; Robertson, LS; Skrzypek, MS; Braun, BR; et al. (2001). "YPD, PombePD and WormPD: model organism volumes of the BioKnowledge library, an integrated resource for protein information". Nucleic Acids Research. 29 (1): 75–9. doi:10.1093/nar/29.1.75. PMC 29810Freely accessible. PMID 11125054.
  8. ↑ Hodges, PE; Carrico, PM; Hogan, JD; O'Neill, KE; Owen, JJ; Mangan, M; Davis, BP; Brooks, JE; Garrels, JI (2002). "Annotating the human proteome: the Human Proteome Survey Database (HumanPSD) and an in-depth target database for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR-PD) from Incyte Genomics". Nucleic Acids Research. 30 (1): 137–41. doi:10.1093/nar/30.1.137. PMC 99168Freely accessible. PMID 11752275.
  9. ↑ Liebich, I; Bode, J; Frisch, M; Wingender, E (2002). "S/MARt DB: a database on scaffold/matrix attached regions". Nucleic Acids Research. 30 (1): 372–4. doi:10.1093/nar/30.1.372. PMC 99064Freely accessible. PMID 11752340.
  10. ↑ Department of Bioinformatics and Biochemistry - Technical University of Braunschweig Germany
  11. ↑ enzymeta
  12. ↑ HGMD home page
  13. ↑ Cell System Markup Language (CSML) - Cell Illustrator
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ EU Projects at BIOBASE
  16. ↑ Net2Drug
  17. ↑ BIOBASE Biological Databases: SysCo - Functional Analysis Archived January 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ Home - Systematic functional analysis of intracellular parasitism as a model of genomes conflict
  19. ↑ BIOBASE Biological Databases: TRANSISTOR Archived January 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  20. ↑ Gen2Phen Archived May 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  21. ↑ Kel, AE; Niehof, M; Matys, V; Zemlin, R; Borlak, J (2008). "Genome wide prediction of HNF4alpha functional binding sites by the use of local and global sequence context". Genome Biology. 9 (2): R36. doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r36. PMC 2374721Freely accessible. PMID 18291023.
  22. ↑ Minovitsky, S; Stegmaier, P; Kel, A; Kondrashov, AS; Dubchak, I (2007). "Short sequence motifs, overrepresented in mammalian conserved non-coding sequences". BMC Genomics. 8: 378. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-378. PMC 2176071Freely accessible. PMID 17945028.

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