Biomax was founded in 1997 and has its roots in the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS).

In addition to exclusive software tools, Biomax Informatics provides services and curated knowledge bases.

[1] Biomax Informatics and Sophic Systems Alliance Inc. (USA) participate in the Cancer Gene Data Curation Project with the National Cancer Institute (USA).

[2] This project maintains a public data set of cancer-related genes and drugs.

This data set has been integrated with the NCI's caBIO (cancer Bioinformatics Infrastructure Objects) domain model which is part of the CaBIG Integrative Cancer Research (ICR) workspace.