Biomax Informatics AG

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Biomax Informatics AG
Type Private
Founded 1997
Headquarters Martinsried, Munich, Germany
Key people Klaus Heumann, CEO
Industry Bioinformatics software
Products See detailed listing
Website www.biomax.com

Biomax Informatics is a Munich-based software company specializing in research software for bioinformatics. Biomax was founded in 1997 and has its roots in the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS). The company's customer base consists of companies and research organizations in the areas of drug discovery, diagnostics, fine chemicals, food and plant production. In addition to exclusive software tools, Biomax Informatics provides services and curated knowledge bases.

In September 2007, Biomax Informatics acquired the Viscovery software business of the Austrian data mining specialist Eudaptics Software.

Biomax Informatics and Sophic Systems Alliance Inc. (USA) participate in the Cancer Gene Data Curation Project with the National Cancer Institute (USA). This project maintains a public data set of cancer-related genes and drugs. This data set can be obtained from an NCI web site.

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[edit] Products

  • BioXM Knowledge Management Environment
  • BioRS Integration and Retrieval System
  • Pedant-Pro Sequence Analysis Suite

[edit] Subsidiaries

  • Viscovery Software GmbH

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