= About MOLGENIS =
MOLGENIS was conceived in a project called 'Invengine' by a small                         Dutch company called                         [http://www.inventory.nl/ Inventory.nl]                         . Early 2002 this company took on a project to develop a microarray                         database for the                         [http://molgen.biol.rug.nl/ 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' which is since 2009 a dual-license (LGPLv3  or if desired a commercial, serviced, license) in collaboration with                         [http://www.rug.nl/gbic The Groningen Bioinformatics Center]                         .

== MOLGENIS Contributors ==
This project was possible thanks to:

||[[Image(morris.jpg)]]||[https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.a.swertz Morris Swertz][[BR]]''                                                                 MOLGENIS project coordinator[[BR]][https://www.xgap.org/ Extensible Genotype And Phenotype] database                                                                 sub-project                                                         ''||
||[[Image(rudi.jpg)]]||[http://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/research/research_groups/experimental_mouse_genetics/experimental_mouse_genetics/team/ Rudi Alberts][[BR]]''Our HZI liaison''||||Joris Lops||
||||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.s.boerema/index Ate Boerema][[BR]]''Animal observatory sub-project''||[[Image(richard.jpg)]]||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/r.a.scheltema/index Richard Scheltema][[BR]]''                                                                 Also known from                                                                 [http://www.myspace.com/girlshaveallthefun pop-music]                                                         ''||
||[[Image(bert.jpg)]]||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/e.o.de.brock/research Bert de Brock]||[[Image(joeri.jpg)]]||Joeri van der Velde||
||[[Image(martijn.jpg)]]||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/m.dijkstra Martijn Dijkstra][[BR]]''Proteomics sub-project''||[[Image(bruno.jpg)]]||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/b.m.tesson Bruno Tesson]||
||[[Image(ritsert.jpg)]]||[http://www.rug.nl/staff/r.c.jansen/research Ritsert Jansen][[BR]]''Mr. Genetical Genomics''||[[Image(gonzalo.jpg)]]||Gonzalo Vera                                                         [[BR]]''[http://www.rparallel.org/ See also R/Parallel]                                                         ''||
||[[Image(alrik.jpg)]]||Alrik Lubbers||[[BR]]||

= MOLGENIS partners =
== MOLGENIS Partners ==
||[[Image(casimir.gif)]]||[http://casimir.org.uk/ CASIMIR consortium:][[BR]]                                         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.[[BR]][[BR]]||
||[[Image(gen2phen.gif)]]||[http://www.gen2phen.org// GEN2PHEN consortium][[BR]]                                         The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic                                         variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into                                         Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data.[[BR]][[BR]]||
||[[Image(ebi.gif)]]||[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ European Molecular Biology Laboratory][[BR]]                                         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.[[BR]][[BR]]||
||[[Image(bioassist.jpg)]]||[http://www.nbic.nl/support/bioassist/ Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre/BioAssist][[BR]]                                         !BioAssist is the bioinformatics support programme, set up by the                                         Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) with bioinformaticians and                                         expert groups in IT and e-science.[[BR]][[BR]]||
||[[Image(npc.gif)]]||[http://www.netherlandsproteomicscentre.nl/ Netherlands Proteomics Centre][[BR]]                                         The Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC) is a strategic                                         collaboration of proteomics research groups from six universities,                                         three academic medical centres and several biotech companies.[[BR]][[BR]]||

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