Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 4 August 2004

Blueprint Initiative Expands to Singapore and London, Will Capture Nature and Science Info

) IMPORTANT NEWS!: Blueprint Initiative (a Sun COE) expands to Singapore and London, will capture Nature and Science info (past, present and future) by special arrangement, and has exceed 80K interactions entered into BIND.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040803/sftu102_1.html

Blueprint Initiative described in July/August EduConnection
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BioJava -- Java Technology Powers Toolkit for Deciphering Genomic Codes

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaopensource/biojava/

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The NRC/CBR Purchases SF20K

The National Research Council of the Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (NRC/CBR) is a distributed network of collaborating institutes, universities and individuals across Canada dedicated to the provision of bioinformatics services to Canadian researchers. It runs on a very high speed optical internet, using Sun Grid Engine. Replacing two older enterprise class systems, NRC-CBR chose the Sun Fire E20K server for its tremendous scalability and throughput computing potential. With new fault management technology, the Bioinformatics Grid offers extended service uptime and enhanced system manageability, all with a reduced cost of ownership. NRC-CBR installed Sun GridEngine Enterprise Edition test Grid across Canada at select member sites. Based on GRIDToday article, with thanks.

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Powerful New Sun Studio 9 Released: US IV, Intel Xeon and AMD Support

Sun Studio 9 software makes it simple to get outstanding performance when developing C, C++, and Fortran for the Solaris Operating System. It provides a comprehensive, productive environment for developing scalable 32-bit and 64-bit applications on Sun's newest UltraSPARC IV, Intel Xeon, and AMD-based systems. With Sun Studio 9, we're also pleased to offer our first version for Linux. Special pricing is available for Education customers for Sun Studio 9. For $100 schools can purchase a site license. Order Part # SS9S9-900-TE9M on the Sun Software Discount List from your Sun Sales Representative or Authorized Reseller for Education.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/studio/index.html

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Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC), Halifax

Canadian Bioinformatics Resource
NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences, Halifax, NS
Saturday, November 27 - Sunday, December 5, 2004

Scientific coordinator: Dr. Brian Fristensky, University of Manitoba Topics include (tentative):

• Basic Unix skills on a network-centric desktop
• Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR)
• BIRCH: Working with large numbers of sequences on a comprehensive bioinformatics system
• BIRCH: Creating your own in-house bioinformatics platform
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Help Desk
• Perl scripting: Quick automation of data analysis tasks and utilization of web services
• How biological concepts are phrased in computational models and how such models can be made operational in a database
• Statistics and simulation testing with Perl
• BIND: Analyzing a gene in its biological context and retrieving lists of functionally related genes, i.e. interactors or co-regulated genes
• BioPerl; Object-oriented Perl; Data warehousing - the SeqHound API
• BioMOBY: a transparent software layer that automatically finds and uses web services
• High-throughput genome annotation with TimeLogic and GeneMatcher hardware
• MAGPIE : Automated genome analysis and annotation
• BLUEJAY : Genome data visualization
• OSPREY: High-throughput oligonucleotide design

For more information about this workshop or to download a registration form, please go to http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca or contact: sophie.chung@visualgenomics.ca

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Question/Poll

Question: Are there public domain (or other) alternatives that provide similar functionality to the GCG functions: transmem, pepplot, or peptidessort? Please send answers/comment/opinions to compbio-sig-info@sun.com.
Thanks.

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Call for Papers: CB-SIG Meeting, RTP, NC, 28-29 October 2004

Please send a short proposal for a 30 minute presentation to stefan.unger@sun.com This CB-SIG meeting will be held in conjunction with the "Bridging the Gaps in Computational Biology" meeting being planned with our RTP COE. It is a separate event, however.

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