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About us
The seeds of BioAware were sown 20 years ago when Dr. Vincent Robert wanted to identify yeasts isolated from the African tropical forest and found it impossible using dichotomic keys. He 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 is one of the two co-founders of the company.
The team
BioAware started on a small pace and has grown gradually. The current team is composed of several senior developers and researchers. They are based in Belgium and in Tunisia. Since BioAware is a spin-off of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS-KNAW) in The Netherlands, a strong relationship was build between the two working groups and developers of both teams are joining efforts to make our products and services more efficient. Since 2008, BioAware has also developed strong links with WhiteCapeTech in Tunisia where several developers are working for us.
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- Vincent Robert, PhD, Engineer (CEO of BioAware, Belgium and Head Bioinformatics at CBS-KNAW, The Netherlands)
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- Szaniszlo Szoke, PhD, Engineer (Head of Windows based developments, Belgium)
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- Bernard Jabas, Software engineer (Head of Web based developments, Belgium)
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- Erik Blom, Information Technology engineer (Head of IT, Belgium)
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- Patricia Nelis, Secretary, Accounting and Nurse (Secretary and Account manager, Belgium)
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- Samy Ben Daoud, Software engineer (Head of Tunisian team, Tunisia)
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- Oussema Chouchen, Software engineer (Windows based developments, Tunisia)
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- Ammar Ben Hadj Amor, Software engineer (Windows based and Mycobank developments, Tunisia)
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- Maher Jaidane, Software engineer (Web based developments, Tunisia)
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- Duong Vu, PhD, Mathematician and Software engineer (Windows based and LIMS developments, The Netherlands)
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- Ahrmed Dridi, Engineer (Software developments and databasing, Tunisia)
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- Nathalie van de Wiele, Biologist and Bioinformatician (Help desk, The Netherlands and Australia)
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- Lea Vaas, Biologist and Bioinformatician (The Netherlands)
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- Felipe Borges dos Santos, Biologist and Bioinformatician (The Netherlands)
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Our Partners
Being a spin-off company of a research institute of the Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, our links with the research community are really strong. We understand their problems and share they way of thinking and working. During all the years where BioAware developed as a leading company in the field of biological data management and analyzes, we've developed strong collaboration links with a number of institutions, companies and networks or projects, all around the world. A selection of them is listed below:
- November 2010, fifth version and new website for BioAware
- October 2010, beta version of Laboratory Information Management System for DNA sequencing released.
- June 2010, Official launch of FES, QBOL, Q-Bank websites using BioloMICS Net 8.5
- March 2010, alpha version of Laboratory Information Management System for DNA sequencing released.
- September 2009, release of BioloMICS Main and Net 8.
- September 2008, beta version of BioloMICS Pro 8 released.
- May 2008, start collaboration with WhiteCapeTech in Tunisia
- December 2007, alpha version of BioloMICS Pro 8 released.
- January 2007, fourth version and new website for BioAware
- Descember 2006, first version of Mycobank website released
- November 2006, improve support to customers via remote desktop application (GoToMeeting) and Skype
- June 2006, BioGalaxy version 2.5 released
- March 2006, release of the second version of the MycoBank website
- January 2006, BioloMICS Net version 3.0 released with a lot of new features
- 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.
- October 2005, BioGalaxy version 2.0 released. Completely re-written
- March 2005, creation of the first version of the MycoBank website
- June 2004, BioloMICS version 6.5 released
- February 2004, BioGalaxy version 1.6 released
- December 2003, new BioloMICS Web version 2.0 released
- August 2002, new BioloMICS version 6.1.
- June 2002, a new beta BioloMICS version (6.0) is launched
- May 2002, regional aid funded to BioAware for "Innovative Software Creation" by the Regional State Authorities (Région Wallone)
- April 2002, first release of BioGalaxy in beta version
- September 2001, collaboration agreement with Eurogentec SA for the distribution of BioArchitech
- July 2001, BioArchitech 1.0 is released
- May 2001, official launch of BioloMICS 5.0 series with enhanced flexibility in character management
- July, 2000, BioloMICS 4.0 is released, together with its web engine allowing data to be published on Internet
- July 2000, collaboration agreement with the CBS (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, the largest fungal culture collection in the world), The Netherlands
- March, 1999: BioloMICS 3.0, experimental version is released
- July, 2000: official creation act of BioAware
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