WOLFENBUTTEL, Germany and BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOBASE announced today that it has reached a milestone few other bioinformatics companies have achieved, it is ten years old. This makes it one of the oldest and most respected providers of biological databases in the world. Founded in 1997 as a partnership between Dr. Thomas Heinemeyer, Holger Karas, Dr. Edgar Wingender, Dr. Ingmar Reuter, the company’s main goal was to provide researchers a means to take advantage of the vast amount of gene expression data being published in the scientific literature. By creating an easy to use, quality-ensured framework to access this immense volume of data, BIOBASE offers scientists the ability to understand connections and discover biological relationships that are easily overlooked using traditional methods.