About Us
BIONDA is a freely accessible biomarker database, which was generated in the course of a project at the Medical Proteome Center at the Ruhr-University Bochum by the Medical Bioinformatics Group. The Medical Bioninformatics group is part of the Service center BioInfra.Prot 2 and belongs to the German network for bioinformatic infrastructure (de.NBI). BIONDA is therefore an official de.NBI tool. Besides BIONDA BioInfra.Prot offers further software and consulting services in the field of bioinformatics and statistics.
Copyright Notice and License
The Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 is applied to all copyrightable parts of BIONDA. You are granted license to copy, distribute, display and make commercial use of the BIONDA database if you make appropriate reference to BIONDA and the authors. For a modified version of BIONDA the consent of the authors must be obtained first. Although we recommend that you use the BIONDA database for your research and commercial purposes, it is essential in all cases to quote the BIONDA authors. If you are using BIONDA for a publication, please send us your scientific publication to improve BIONDA and learn how the BIONDA offer is used in the scientific and commercial field. If you had any further questions please contact us.
About BIONDA
The BIONDA biomarker database provides structured information on all biomarker candidates published in PubMed articles. There is no limitation to any kind of diseases. To this end, PubMed article abstracts and databases such as UniProt and Human Disease Ontology are used as sources for BIONDA’s database entries. These are acquired automatically and updated regularly using text mining methods. BIONDA is available freely via a user-friendly web interface. As a specific characteristic, BIONDA’s database entries are rated by a scoring approach estimating biomarker reliability.
BIONDA Project Funding
The German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure – de.NBI is a national infrastructure supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
It is a non-profit organization, which offers assistance in bioinformatic questions to scientists in Germany and Europe. Training, courses and software are offered to answer questions from the life science sector. In May 2013 the first foundation stone for de.NBI was laid and since 2015 de.NBI offers its services. More than 40 research institutions and 150 scientists work for de.NBI.
The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure - de.NBI' (www.denbi.de) is a German national bioinformatics infrastructure project. Within de.NBI, the service center BioInfra.Prot is a joint initiative of two partners: the "Medical Bioinformatics" research unit of the Medizinisches Proteom-Center of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the "Department of Bioanalytics" of the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V. in Dortmund. Both groups have deep and longstanding experience with tools, standards and analyses in the field of proteomics. This partnership enables synergies to be maximized in order to provide a broad range of services to the German proteomics community. The de.NBI partner project Lipidomics Informatics for Life Science (LIFS) provides further expertise in tools, standards and analyses in the field of lipidomics. LIFS consists of the partners Leibniz-Lungenzentrum Borstel (Bioanalytics group), the Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden (Biological Mass Spectrometry group), and the Lipidomics group at ISAS.
ELIXIER Europe is a non-profit organization that connects europe's leading life-sciences instute. The network de.NBI is part of the ELIXIER knot of germany and thus makes an important contribution to europe-wide research.. It was founded in December 2013 and began implementing its first scientific programme in 2014. It is currently implementing its second five-year scientific programme.