July 2008
BIOBASE releases their BKL Plant and ExPlain™ Plant products for agricultural researchers. The “green” versions of their industry leading products can assist investigators studying crop optimization, disease resistance, stress tolerance and other important areas of plant biotechnology research. Global agricultural leader Syngenta was signed as the first customer for these new products
June 2008
BIOBASE partners with InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence to offer mutual customers the ability to access TRANSFAC, TRANSPATH, and PROTEOME within the context of the InforSense analytics platform.
Feb. 2008
BIOBASE begins the exclusive distribution of cellular modeling software Cell Illustrator™ from GNI Ltd. of Japan.
Jan. 2008
BIOBASE opens new subsidiary BIOBASE Japan KK in Yokohama, Japan to enhance customer contact, improve cooperation with partners and build a new market for biomarker discovery.
Oct. 2007
BIOBASE celebrates its 10th anniversary and becomes one of the oldest bioinformatics companies in the industry. Founded in 1997 as a partnership between Dr. Thomas Heinemeyer, Holger Karas, Dr. Edgar Wingender, Dr. Ingmar Reuter, BIOBASE is now a global company with many customers amongst the top commercial and academic institutions.
Nov. 2007
BIOBASE continues custom curation project to provide Procter and Gamble with customized regulatory pathway research data created by their highly skilled, expert manual curation teams.
Sept. 2007
BIOBASE collaborates with Integrated Genomics to custom curate their ERGO™ microbial genomic database. This project adds manually-curated functional gene annotations and pathways to this already powerful product.
May 2007
BIOBASE ExPlain™ Analysis System and TRANSFAC® database achieves GeneChip-compatible™ status with the Affymetrix Inc.
March 2007
BIOBASE is awarded Net2Drug grant to help create a sophisticated “toolbox” of integrated, cutting edge bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and experimental methods to identify potential therapeutic targets.
March 2007
BIOBASE ExPlain™ analysis platform chosen as Best of Show at Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 14th Annual Molecular Medicine Conference in San Francisco, CA USA.
Oct. 2006
BIOBASE announced the establishment of an Indian Branch office in Bangalore and is thus significantly expanding its capacities in the area of database maintenance, product innovation and development of analysis tools.
Jun. 2006
BIOBASE starts the exclusive distribution of the "industrial package" BRENDA-AMENDA (University Cologne).
Jan. 2006
BIOBASE starts the distribution of HGMD, the Human Gene Mutation Database (Cardiff University).
Jan. 2006
BIOBASE announced the launch of its new analysis platform ExPlain.
Nov. 05
BIOBASE ranked 21th in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50th Award Ceremony for the Technology Fast 50 Contest 2005 from Deloitte & Touche.
Feb. 2005
BIOBASE Announces Strategic Partnership with LION bioscience
Jan. 2005
BIOBASE acquires the Proteome subsidiary of Incyte
Oct. 2004
BIOBASE ranked 5th in the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50
Dec. 2003
BIOBASE integrates the renowned protein-interaction database NetPro™ by Molecular Connections into the BIOBASE System
Nov. 2003
BIOBASE starts "BRENDA™" Distribution
Aug. 2003
BIOBASE break even
Apr. 2002
Jan. 2002
BIOBASE announces Michael Tysiak as CEO / CFO
Jun. 2001
BIOBASE moves from Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel
Mar. 2000
BIOBASE gets a 2-million DM BioChance project funded
Feb. 2000
Cooperation agreement between BIOBASE and the Technical University Braunschweig about data acquisition on plant transcription factors
Dec. 1999
BIOBASE acquires 5 Million DM venture capital
Mar. 1999
Mitsui Knowledge Industries (MKI) and BIOBASE agree upon exclusive distribution rights for the TRANSFAC® database in Japan
Feb. 1998
Inauguration reception
Handelsregisternummer HRB 4503, Amtsgericht Braunschweig
Jan. 1998
Holger KARAS joins BIOBASE as CEO
Sep. 1997
Increase in business activities requires start-up of a commercial enterprise: The BIOBASE idea has been born









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