Attention:
Due to technical maintenance some tools might be unavailable.
See maintenance information.
BiBiServ Policies
Availability: All tools are available online for
free, both to academic and commercial users. Some of the
software tools are distributed also or only for local
installation. In the latter case commercial users may have to
pay a license fee.
Credits: If you use BiBiServ tools for your
research and publish your results, we request that you cite
the BiBiServ URL as well as the reference article indicated
with each tool individually.
Tool release: New tools officially appear on
BiBiServ at as soon as corresponding publications explaining
their purpose and underlying algorithms appear. Unofficially
(i.e. without a hotlink from the main web-site) they may
appear earlier, to facilitate cooperation or evaluation by
external researchers.
Tool selection: While some tools have thousands of
users per month, others less than hundred, and some perhaps
only ten, the criterion of persistence on BiBiServ is not
popularity, but scientific value. Tools disappear from
BiBiServ when their purpose has become obsolete (because
scientific questions or laboratory techniques have changed),
or when a better tool for the same purpose becomes available
elsewhere.
Confidentiality: BiBiServ runs in a UNIX
environment. The data stored locally can be accessed only by
the BiBiServ administrators. The result of a calculation is
stored temporarily for three days and deleted afterwards. We
do not offer encrypted submissions.