BIOBASE

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. 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. Of the four founders, three are still affiliated with the company (Edgar Wingender, Holger Karas, and Ingmar Reuter). The company is presently managed by Michael Tysiak (CEO/CFO) and Frank Schacherer (COO). Rgw company's original product was the TRANSFAC database, a platform for the description and analysis of gene...