About BioAware

The mission of BioAware and of its employees is to understand the needs of our prospects, translate them into superior products, deliver them with the agreed specifications as well as in the expected budget and time, and build such a long-term relationship with our customers that the development of our software supports their quest for quality and growth.

Delivering results through innovative, superior and quality products remains our number one priority. Looking forward BioAware intends to be reactive and to anticipate technological trends in this biological fast moving environment. To do this, we have built strong partnerships with worldwide leading scientific academies and organizations. We are actively collaborating with them, sharing expertise and expressing requirements in order to keep our products on the forefront of biological information technology.

The seeds of BioAware were sown almost 15 years ago when Dr. Vincent Robert wanted to identify yeasts isolated from the African tropical forest and found it impossible using dichotomic keys. He than developed some basic software solutions to solve his problems. The first projects were realized in an academic context. But the demand for biological resource management software was so important that the settlement of a private structure was the next logical step. BioAware was established in July 2000 as a spin-off of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (an institute of the Royal Academy of Sciences in The Netherlands) but was registered in Belgium under the form of a limited company. Dr. Vincent Robert and Baudouin Moenaert were the two co-founders of the company.

March, 1999: BioloMICS 3.0, experimental version is released

July, 2000: official creation act of BioAware

July 2000, collaboration agreement with the CBS (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, the largest fungal culture collection in the world), The Netherlands

July, 2000: BioloMICS 4.0 is released, together with its web engine allowing data to be published on Internet

May 2001, official launch of BioloMICS 5.0 series with enhanced flexibility in character management

July 2001, BioArchitech 1.0 is released

September 2001, collaboration agreement with Eurogentec SA for the distribution of BioArchitech?

April 2002, first release of BioGalaxy in beta version

May 2002, regional aid funded to BioAware for "Innovative Software Creation" by the Regional State Authorities (Région Wallone)

May 2002, new major BioArchitech? release (1.3.69)

June 2002, a new BioloMICS? version (6.0) is launched in beta version

August/September 2002, the new BioloMICS? version 6.1.

December 2003, new BioloMICS Web version 2.0 released

February 2004, BioGalaxy version 1.6 released

June 2004, BioloMICS version 6.5 released

March 2005, creation of the first version of the MycoBank website

October 2005, BioGalaxy version 2.0 released. Completely re-written

November 2005, BioloMICS version 7.0 released with the introduction of a lot of new features especially in the statistical module. Complete integration with BioGalaxy possible.

January 2006, BioloMICS Net version 3.0 released with a lot of new features

March 2006, realease of the second version of the MycoBank website

June 2006, BioGalaxy version 2.5 released

November 2006, improve support to customers via remote desktop application (GoToMeeting) and Skype

December 2006, alpha version of BioloMICS Pro 8 released. Beta version is expected mid-2007. Final version is expected at the end of 2007

January 2007, fourth version and new website for BioAware