SWISS-MODEL was initiated in 1993 by Manuel Peitsch, and further developed at Glaxo Wellcome Experimental Research in Geneva and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics by Manuel Peitsch, Nicolas Guex and Torsten Schwede. Since 2001, SWISS-MODEL is being developped by Torsten Schwede's Structural Bioinformatics Group at the SIB & Biozentrum (University of Basel). The SWISS-MODEL Repository, a relational database of annotated three-dimensional comparative protein s tructure models, was established in 2004. In 2005, SWISS-MODEL service was extended by SWISS-MODEL Workspace, a web-based work bench for protein structure modelling and assessment. Computational resources for the SWISS-MODEL server are provided in collaboration by the Biozentrum (University Basel), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (NCI Frederick, USA).

Acknowledgements

SWISS-MODEL would not have been possible without a lot of help and support. We are particularly thankful to Nicolas Guex for his many crucial contributions to the development efforts of Swiss-Model and specifically DeepView and to Gale Rhodes of the University of Southern Maine for coordinating the active DeepView user community. We also thank Alexander Diemand, Konstatin Arnold, Jürgen Kopp and Lorenza Bordoli for their many contributions to the development and operations for the modeling platform. Furthermore, we deeply indebted to Jake V. Maizel Jr, Timothy N.C. Wells, Jonathan C.K. Knowles, and Allan Baxter who have provided the necessary environment and resources during various phases of this project. Finally, we thank Stanley K. Burt, Robert W. Lebherz III, Karol Miaskiewicz and Jack R. Collins of the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick Maryland for their support and operating the US mirror of the Swiss-Model server. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support by GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.