About MOLGENIS

MOLGENIS was conceived in a project called 'Invengine' by a small Dutch company called ​Inventory.nl . Early 2002 this company took on a project to develop a microarray database for the ​Groningen University . The big challenge was that the research was still developing and hence the software needed to be flexible. Invegine did the job perfectly. Since then there has been many years of development (amongst it a complete redesign from PHP to Java to accomodate large scale genetics data). Early 2008, Inventory.nl kindly open-sourced the software as 'MOLGENIS' under a dual-license (LGPL for non-profit and commercial license) in collaboration with ​The Groningen Bioinformatics Center .

MOLGENIS Contributors

This project was possible thanks to:

​Morris Swertz MOLGENIS project coordinator ​Extensible Genotype And Phenotype database sub-project
​Rudi Alberts Our HZI liaison	Dewi Matthijssen
​Ate Boerema Animal observatory sub-project	​Richard Scheltema Also known from ​pop-music
​Bert de Brock	Joeri van der Velde
​Martijn Dijkstra Proteomics sub-project	​Bruno Tesson
​Ritsert Jansen Mr. Genetical Genomics	Gonzalo Vera ​See also R/Parallel
Alrik Lubbers

MOLGENIS partners

MOLGENIS Partners

​CASIMIR consortium: CASIMIR, is a coordination action of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission, and focusses on co-ordination and integration of databases containing experimental data.

​GEN2PHEN consortium The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data.

​European Molecular Biology Laboratory The EBI is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.

​Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre/BioAssist BioAssist is the bioinformatics support programme, set up by the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) with bioinformaticians and expert groups in IT and e-science.

​Netherlands Proteomics Centre The Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC) is a strategic collaboration of proteomics research groups from six universities, three academic medical centres and several biotech companies.

Email m.a.swertz AT rug DOT nl for more information and collaboration.