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| − | == MAKER Joins GMOD ==
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| − | [[MAKER]] is a portable and easy to configure genome [[:Category:Annotation|annotation]] pipeline that has just become a part of GMOD. It's purpose is to allow smaller ''eukaryotic'' genome projects to annotate their genomes and to create genome databases. MAKER identifies repeats, aligns ESTs and proteins to a genome, produces ''ab initio'' gene predictions and automatically synthesizes these data into gene annotations having evidence-based quality values. MAKER is also easily trainable: outputs of preliminary runs can be used to automatically retrain its gene prediction algorithm, producing higher quality gene-models on subsequent runs. MAKER's inputs are minimal. It outputs are in GFF3 or FASTA format, and can be directly loaded into [[Chado]], [[GBrowse]], and [[Apollo]].
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| − | MAKER was created and is maintained by the [http://www.yandell-lab.org/ Mark Yandell Lab] at the [http://www.utah.edu University of Utah].
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| − | See [[MAKER]] for more on how you can use it to automatically annotate your genomic data.
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| − | ''2008/05/16''
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| − | == Apollo 1.9 Released ==
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| − | [[Apollo]] 1.9.0 has been released. This release includes a number of bug fixes and some additions. The biggest new feature for this release is the Preferences Editor, which gives a graphical way to edit style/tiers files. This is aimed towards the non-power users and as such, it only supports a small subset (the ones we figured would be most useful) of the many options for those files. Power users might still want to manually edit the style/tiers files if they want to change something not supported through the GUI. Note that with this addition, the old Types Panel and Style Editor (which was basically just a text editor) have been retired.
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| − | You can get the new release of Apollo at:
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| − | Ed Lee
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| − | ''2008/05/12''
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| − | == GMOD Summer School Update ==
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| − | <span style="float: right" class="plainlinks">[http://gmod.org/GMOD_Summer_School http://gmod.org/wiki/images/f/fa/SummerSchoolSmall.png]</span>
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| − | <span style="font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold">July 11-13, 2008<br />National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)<br />Durham, North Carolina, USA</span>
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| − | [[GMOD Summer School]] is a 2 1/2 day hands-on workshop aimed at teaching new GMOD users how to get up and running with popular GMOD components. The summer school was [[#GMOD Summer School|announced]] on March 7, 2008.
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| − | '''The [[GMOD Summer School]] is now full.''' However, the waiting list is still small and if you are interested then you are encouraged to [[GMOD Summer School Statement of Interest|submit an application]].'''
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| − | If you have already applied for the GMOD Summer School you should have received an e-mail from the [[GMOD Help Desk|Help Desk]] informing you of your admission status.
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| − | ''2008/04/24, last updated 2008/05/16''
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| − | == Apollo 1.8 Released ==
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| − | [[Apollo]] (1.8.0) today. There are many additions/bug fixes with this
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| − | For more information on the changes, check out the [http://gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net/gmod/apollo/doc/release-notes/release-1.8.0-notes?view=markup release doc].
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| − | ''2008/04/10''
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| − | == Sea Urchin Genome Database ==
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| − | Today, Tuesday April 4th, the [http://spbase.org Sea Urchin Genome Database] went public. Based on the GMOD tools and applications the site organizes and displays the genome sequence and annotations produced by the [http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/ Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center] and the sea urchin research community. This site housed at the Center for Computational Regulatory Genomics, the [http://www.its.caltech.edu/~bi/ Beckman Institute] at [http://www.caltech.edu/ California Institute of Technology] plans to enrich and extend the sea urchin sequence and annotations.
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| − | Visit us at [http://spbase.org SpBase].
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| − | [[User:Acameron|Andy Cameron]]<br />
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| − | ''2008/04/08''
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| − | == Chado Doc Reorganization ==
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| − | Chado is the database schema of GMOD and it has quite a bit of documentation in this web site. However, this documentation could be better organized and integrated. We are launching the [[Chado Documentation Reorganization]] effort to do just that.
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| − | During this effort the existing [[:Category:Chado|Chado documentation]] may be unstable. We will do our best to make this reorganization be as painless as possible.
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| − | The [[Chado Documentation Reorganization]] page summarizes our existing documentation and then [[Chado Documentation Reorganization#Plan|proposes a plan]] for restructuring it. If you have any suggestions or comments on this then please send us your [[Chado Documentation Reorganization#Feedback|feedback]].
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| − | Thanks,
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| − | ''2008/04/04''
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| − | == iPlant Collaborative Job Openings ==
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| − | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking experienced software developers/bioinformaticians to join the [http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/ iPlant Collaborative], a new NSF-funded initiative which seeks to develop a comprehensive national cyberinfrastructure which will unite researchers in every plant biology discipline.
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| − | ''2008/04/01''
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| − | == GMOD 1.0 Released ==
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| − | I am very pleased to announce the release of GMOD 1.0. The file can be
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| − | This release comes at a time when both the [[Chado]] schema and its
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| − | In addition to the Chado schema, this release includes:
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| − | * Tools for creating a new database.
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| − | * Tools for populating it with [[:Category:Ontologies|ontology]] data (using go-perl).
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| − | * A fairly new tool for updating ontologies contributed by the developers of [[:Category:SGN|SGN]], the SOL Genomics Network.
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| − | * Tools for loading sequence feature (i.e. GFF3) data.
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| − | This release of Chado works well with the upcoming release of [[GBrowse]],
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| − | With this release, there are so many people in the GMOD community that I
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| − | Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, especially Chris Mungall and Dave
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| − | Please direct any questions about using this release to the GMOD schema mailing list, [mailto:gmod-schema@lists.sourceforge.net gmod-schema@lists.sourceforge.net].
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| − | ''2008/03/31''
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| − | == CMap 1.0 Released ==
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| − | Highlights of this release are:
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| − | * New Feature Glyphs
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| − | ''2008/03/28''
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| − | == GMOD Meeting July 16-17, Toronto ==
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| − | The next [[July 2008 GMOD Meeting|GMOD community meeting]] has been scheduled for July 16-17, 2008 at the University of Toronto, immediately before [http://www.iscb.org/ismb2008/ ISMB 2008] (also in Toronto), and just a few days after the 2008 [[GMOD Summer School]].
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| − | ''2008/03/25''
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| − | == SynBrowse Developers Needed ==
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| − | ''2008/03/21''
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| − | ''2008/03/18''
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| − | == Beta Test CMap: Win a T-Shirt! ==
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| − | UPDATE: We have our winners. Even still, please feel free to give the release candidate a try and let us know how it goes.
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| − | [[User:Faga|Ben Faga]],<br />[mailto:faga.cshl@gmail.com faga.cshl@gmail.com]
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| − | == GMOD Summer School ==
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| − | <span style="font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold">July 11-13, 2008<br />National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)<br />Durham, North Carolina, USA</span>
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| − | This entry summarizes several recent changes in the [[Main Page|GMOD web site]]. These changes are designed to make the site more useful, and hopefully will make your GMOD web site experience more pleasant.
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| − | # '''[[Main Page]]''' - Items from the GMOD News page and recently edited pages (non-minor edits) now show up in the right sidebar.
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| − | # '''[[GMOD Mailing Lists]]''' - Shows more lists, and sorts them into Overview, Component, and Inactive lists. If your list isn't here, please add it.
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| − | # '''[[GMOD Help Desk]]''' - Explains services offered by the help desk.
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| − | # '''[[Computing Requirements]]''' - Description of expertise and computing systems you'll need to set up a GMOD installation.
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| − | * ''Chado: A Database Schema for Integrating Biological Data'' - [[User:Scott|Scott Cain]] and [[User:Clements|Dave Clements]] will cover [[Chado]]'s logical concepts, the types of data it can represent, how to import and export data, and how Chado integrates with other GMOD components such as [[Apollo]] and [[GBrowse]].
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| − | == Apollo 1.7.0 Released ==
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| − | Changes in this version include
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| − | * Added [[Glossary#GFF|GFF3]] support
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| − | * Added program source filtering for reading off [[Chado]] databases
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| − | * Lots of work on the ensj adapter to allow it to work better with recent ensembl schemas, handle ditags, give finer control of gene loading, increase speed of gene loading, bug fixes to history, cigar parsing in ensj layer, loading of contig features
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| − | * Allow layout of display to be saved to / loaded from a file. Most useful for synteny where initial display set up can take time. The saved layout also includes the current base position and zoom factor, and on loading you can choose to use those.
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| − | * Ability to edit settings for a type (new popup menu item in feature popup). The settings which can be edited are the glyph used for drawing the feature and the columns in the table displayed in the evidence panel.
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| − | * New drawing glyph which shades exons darker or lighter depending on their phase (DrawablePhaseHighlightGeneFeatureSet). Also a version of that which uses straight lines to join exons rather than 'hats' (DrawablePhaseHighlightNoHatGeneFeatureSet)
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| − | * Work on ensembl synteny adapter so it works with latest ensembl compara db schema, and basic support for allowing different alignment sets to be selected.
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| − | * PureJDBCTransactionWriter added. This entailed some changes to other classes, but in almost every case the changes are 1. reverse compatible and 2. invisible to the end user.
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| − | * Uses of Log4J for generating log files.
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| − | Plus many other changes. See the [http://gmod.cvs.sourceforge.net/gmod/apollo/doc/release-notes/release-1.7.0-notes?view=markup release notes] for more.
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| − | We are hoping to cut releases on a more regular basis (after the year and a half long hiatus). So please [[Apollo#Contact|let us know]] if you find any bugs and they will be addressed and put into a new release as soon as possible.
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| − | == GBrowse Tutorial at PAG XVI ==
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| − | ''2007/12/27''
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| − | Scott Cain will present a [http://www.intl-pag.org/16/16-gbrowse.html GBrowse tutorial] at the [http://www.intl-pag.org/ Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference (PAG-XVI)], January 12-16, 2008, in San Diego. This will be a hands-on tutorial on how to install and use the [[GBrowse]] genome browser. If you are attending PAG and you are interested in GBrowse then please consider attending.
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| − | See the [http://www.intl-pag.org/16/16-gbrowse.html PAG tutorial page] for additional information.
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| − | == Modware Feedback Wanted ==
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| − | ''2007/12/11''
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| − | [[Modware]] provides an object-oriented Perl API for [[Chado]] suitable for use by any application based on GMOD. This Chado API supports creating, retrieving and updating objects in a Chado database. Modware makes heavy use of [[bp:Main Page|BioPerl]] to provide a familiar and intuitive interface for objects stored inside of a Chado database.
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| − | Recently, a VMware Virutal Machine was released to make download and
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| − | testing of a fully configured and installed version of Modware
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| − | available. Modware developers continue to add new features, including
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| − | representation of BLAST hits (currently on CVS HEAD).
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| − | One critical piece of the project that is missing is feedback from the
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| − | community. If you are interested in a Chado API, please download the
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| − | Modware Virtual Machine found on the [http://gmod-ware.sourceforge.net Modware home page] and give it a try. Email all feature requests, questions, and comments to [mailto:gmod-ware-users@sourceforge.net gmod-ware-users@sourceforge.net].
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| − | == November 2007 GMOD Meeting ==
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| − | ''2007/11/08''
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| − | The [[November 2007 GMOD Meeting]] was attended by nearly 40 people from across the GMOD community. Community annotation and comparative genomics were two popular topics at this meeting. See [[November 2007 GMOD Meeting]] for a list of presentations and a summary of the meeting.
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| − | == GMODTools 1.1 Released ==
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| − | ''2007/10/16''
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| − | Version 1.1 of [[GMODTools]] has been released. Version 1.1 adds these features and corrections:
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| − | * No chromosome/scaffold/golden_path files. This change is needed to handle partially assembled genomes with many (1000s to 100,000s) of scaffolds. Flag no_csomesplit=1 to use this (should become default).
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| − | * Gene Ontology association file, see go_association tags in configurations
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| − | * Validate main variables in chado database: ${golden_path}, ${seq_ontology}. This step, on now by default, checks that database contains configured values. If failed, db is inspected for real values.
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| − | * Miscellany bugs cured and configuration updates, e.g., tables/overview now again active.
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| − | [[GMODTools]] is a Perl package that generates Fasta, GFF, DNA and other bulk genome annotation files from Chado databases.
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| − | == GMOD Help Desk is Back ==
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| − | ''2007/10/01''
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| − | After a several month hiatus, the [[GMOD Help Desk]] is back. Dave Clements has taken the role created by Brian Osborne earlier this year. Dave will work on the same sorts of things that Brian did: Maintaining and improving the GMOD web site and documentation, and supporting the GMOD user community. See [[GMOD Help Desk]] for more.
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| − | == FlyBase Converts to Chado ==
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| − | ''2007/09/01''
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| − | This summer, FlyBase [[June 2007 Progress Report#Chado/FlyBase|finished its reimplementation]] using [[Chado]], the modular GMOD database schema which [http://flybase.org/ FlyBase] originated and continues to develop
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| − | in collaboration with GMOD and several GMOD-affiliated database
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| − | projects. The FlyBase implementation of Chado integrates over 100
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| − | years of ''Drosophila'' genetic and genomic research data. In addition to
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| − | curation for ''D. melanogaster'', the main Drosophilid model organism,
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| − | FlyBase is currently working to incorporate the new genome sequences,
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| − | Drosophila species into the single production instance of Chado.
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| − | PostgreSQL dumps of FlyBase-chado are available at ftp://ftp.flybase.net/releases/current/psql/
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| − | == Pathway Tools 11.5 Released ==
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| − | ''2007/08/15''
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| − | Version 11.5 of Pathway Tools has been [http://bioinformatics.ai.sri.com/ptools/release-notes.html released]. Version 11.5 includes
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| − | * Electron transport information
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| − | * Zooming in genome view
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| − | * Stricter pruning to eliminate pathway predictions that are likely to be false-positive predictions
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| − | [[Pathway Tools]] is a comprehensive symbolic systems biology software package that supports several use cases in bioinformatics and systems biology.
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| − | == ISMB/Bioinformatics Chado Paper ==
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| − | ''2007/07/13''
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| − | The paper '[http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/13/i337 A Chado case study: an ontology-based modular schema for representing genome-associated biological information]' by Chris Mungall, Dave Emmert, and The [http://flybase.org/static_pages/docs/consortium.html FlyBase Consortium], was presented at [http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/ ISMB/ECCB 2007], and is now available in the journal [http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/ Bioinformatics].
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| − | The paper describes the overall [[Chado]] philosophy and the 5 core Chado modules.
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| − | == BioMart 0.6 Released ==
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| − | Version 0.6 of the BioMart has been [http://www.biomart.org/news.html released]. Version 0.6 includes support for a 1.5 [[DAS]] server, and improvements to MartView and MartBuilder. See [http://www.biomart.org/news.html BioMart News] for more.
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| − | [[BioMart]] is a query oriented database management system for biological data.
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| − | == GBrowse 1.68 Released ==
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| − | Version 1.68 of [[GBrowse]] is a stability release which improves the documentation and installation process. It includes a new script called <tt>gbrowse_netinstall.pl</tt>, which will semi-automatically install GBrowse across the Internet on [[GBrowse Windows HOWTO|Windows]], [[GBrowse MacOSX HOWTO|Mac OSX]] and [[GBrowse Linux HOWTO|Linux]] platforms.
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| − | Earlier news items are available at [http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=27707 SourceForge].
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| − | This page generates both an RSS feed and updates the GMOD News list on the [[Main Page|home page]]. Therefore please follow these guidelines when adding a news item.
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| − | # Edit the [[#News Items|News Items]] section of this page. This will allow you to see how big your news item title is, compared to existing news items.
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| − | # Add your news item immediately after the <tt><nowiki><startFeed /></nowiki></tt> tag.
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| − | #* Use a short title. Titles should be small enough to fit on a single line in the GMOD News list on the [[Main Page|home page]].
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| − | #* Place the title in a second level heading: <tt>== Your Title ==</tt>
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| − | #* Make the news item succinct.
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| − | #* The first link in the news item should point to the page/URL you want the RSS feed to link to. For example, the first link in a news item about [[Chado]] could point to the [[Chado]] page.
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| − | #* End the news item with your name and the date in the format ''YYYY/MM/DD''.
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| − | # Preview your changes
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| − | #* Check the table of contents. Is the title no longer than any previous title? Is the title at the same depth as the other news item titles?
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| − | #* Check the news item. Does the text look good, does it look like the other news items, and does the first link point to where you want it to?
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| − | #* Revise until you like it and then save it.
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| − | Once you have saved the page, a link to the new item will show up on the home page in about an hour.
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| − | Note: If you don't want to do this on your own, please send the item to the [[GMOD Help Desk]] and we will post it.
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