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.


Aug. 2005

Visit of the german minister of Education & Research, Edelgard Bulmahn


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

INTEC Systems Institute, Inc. invests 600.000 € into BIOBASE with the intention of further investment


Jan. 2002

BIOBASE announces Michael Tysiak as CEO / CFO

Jun. 2001

BIOBASE moves from Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel

Nov. 2000

Visit of the Science Minister of Lower Saxony Thomas Oppermann at BIOBASE


Apr. 2000

Visit of the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Sigmar Gabriel at BIOBASE.


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

Research Minister RÜTTGERS visits BIOBASE


Jan. 1998

Holger KARAS joins BIOBASE as CEO

Oct. 1997

Partnership contract establishes BIOBASE GmbH


Sep. 1997

Increase in business activities requires start-up of a commercial enterprise: The BIOBASE idea has been born

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