BioBam Bioinformatics explained

BioBam Bioinformatics S.L.
Logo Alt:	Logo BioBam Bioinformatics
Type:	Privately held company
Foundation:	2011
Founder:	Stefan Götz, Ana Conesa
Area Served:	Worldwide
Location City:	Valencia
Location Country:	Spain
Industry:	Bioinformatics
Homepage:	https://biobam.com

BioBam is a bioinformatics software company located in Valencia, Spain selling software for the analysis of biological data. Its products are used by public and private research organizations around the world.^[1] The firm was founded in 2011 by Dr. Stefan Götz and Dr. Ana Conesa.^[2] The managing director of BioBam is Dr. Stefan Götz.

Products

The firm develops and provides products for the functional annotation and analysis of genomics data sets. The most well-known product is Blast2GO; the paper describing it ^[3] has been cited by over 3528 scientific citations (as of January, 2016).^[4] Blast2GO is for functional genomics specially for non-model organism research.^[5] Blast2GO is for functional annotation of novel sequences and the genome-wide analysis of annotation data. BioBam has partnerships with bioinformatics companies like CLC bio^[6] and Biomatters,^[7] among others.^[8]

Notes and References

1. https://www.blast2go.com/support/testimonials BioBam testimonials (Blast2GO users), list of reference clients and citations
2. http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2014/02/06/52f372c3e2704e05598b456d.html El Mundo: Innovadores: El "intérprete" mundial del genoma
3. Ana Conesa1, Stefan Götz, Juan Miguel García-Gómez, Javier Tero1, Manuel Taló1 and Montserrat Roble2 "Blast2GO: a universal tool for annotation, visualization and analysis in functional genomics research " Bioinformatics Volume 21, Issue 18, p. 3674-3676. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti610 https://web.archive.org/web/20110909105334/http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/18/3674.full, open access
4. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=blast2go&btnG=&hl=da&as_sdt=0%2C5 Google Scholar Citations
5. 18445632 . 10.1093/nar/gkn176 . 36 . High-throughput functional annotation and data mining with the Blast2GO suite . 2425479 . 2008 . Nucleic Acids Res . 3420–35 . Götz . S . García-Gómez . JM . Terol . J . Williams . TD . Nagaraj . SH . Nueda . MJ . Robles . M . Talón . M . Dopazo . J . Conesa . A. 10 .
6. https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/clc-bio-idUSnBw025713a+100+BSW20131002 CLC bio and BioBam Deliver Integrated Workflow to Functionally Annotate De Novo Sequenced Genomes and Transcriptomes
7. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150701006423/en/BioBam-Biomatters-offer-Functional-Annotation-Tools-Geneious#.VZ0EZJOqpBc BioBam and Biomatters offer Functional Annotation Tools for Geneious Bioinformatics Platform
8. https://www.biobam.com/ BioBam Partners