BioLab Software of Seattle, Wash., has launched the BioLab Data Server Platform, open source data management software that enables collaboration between researchers via local area networks or the web.

Biobase of Wolfenbuttel, Germany, has begun marketing BRENDA (the Braunschweiger Enzyme Database), developed and maintained by researchers at the University of Cologne. BRENDA contains information on 80,000 enzymes, which have been largely extracted by hand from scientific publications.