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4 July, 2008
BEN obtains from the Belgian Science Policy an extension of its financing till end 2009.

November 2007
BEN upgrades its MRS server to version 3.

November 7, 2007
BEN's contract with the Belgian Science Policy is operationally extended till 30 June 2008, awaiting definitive renewal.

July 2007
BEN stops providing its users Email addresses and modem/ISDN access to the Internet, focusing instead on purely bioinformatic services. The mailing lists BEN-News (for announcing new issues of "BEN News") and BBClist (which BEN maintains for the participants at the Benelux Bioinformatics Conferences) are transferred to the MailMan server of the Belgian Biodiversity Information Facility.

April 2007
BEN replaces the distribution of its newsletter "BEN News" on paper by electronic publication.

March 19, 2007
BEN organizes a one time special course on MRS

September 2006
EMBOSS at BEN upgraded to version 4.

July 2006
BEN begins replacing its main databank search tool SRS by MRS.

May 2006
BEN makes its WWW services secure using OpenSSL.

December 6, 2005
BEN organizes for the first time an advanced course on "Perl".

November 9, 2005
BEN switches its services to a new hardware (a cluster of Bi-Opteron AMD 246's under Linux). At the same occasion its SRS server is upgraded to version 8.1, with a concept-oriented user interface, and EMBOSS is upgraded to version 3.0.

April 14-15, 2005
For its sixth edition the BBC is organized by the U. of Ghent and becomes "Benelux Bioinformaticians Conference". BEN presents a poster and a stand.

March 2005
BEN's contract with the Belgian Science Policy is renewed for a three year's period.

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