ELECTRAS is being developed at the Computer-Chemie-Centrum of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. The project has been established by the Deutsches Forschungsnetz-Verein (DFN) (i.e. German Research Network) with the financial support of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (bmbf) (i.e. German Ministry of Education and Research).