title: Fifteen years SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: life science databases, tools and support.
abstract: The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) was created in 1998 as an institution to foster excellence in bioinformatics. It is renowned worldwide for its databases and software tools, such as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, PROSITE, SWISS-MODEL, STRING, etc, that are all accessible on ExPASy.org, SIB's Bioinformatics Resource Portal. This article provides an overview of the scientific and training resources SIB has consistently been offering to the life science community for more than 15 years.
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Heinz.Stockinger@isb-sib.ch.
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stockinger
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Universitätstr. 6, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Adrian M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Altenhoff
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Amos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Frederic
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bastian
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bergmann
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Lydie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bougueleret
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bucher
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delorenzi
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Lydie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Mercier
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Frédérique
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lisacek
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland CHUV, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Michielin
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Patricia M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Palagi
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rougemont
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Torsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schwede
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: von Mering
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Nimwegen
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Xenarios
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zavolan
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Evgeny M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Zdobnov
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zoete
authors.affiliation: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Heinz.Stockinger@isb-sib.ch.
authors.forename: Ron D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Appel
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D056808:Biostatistics; D019295:Computational Biology; D062126:Databases, Chemical; D015195:Drug Design; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D011487:Protein Conformation; D040901:Proteomics; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology