Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 15 March 2004
Software Developers: The Sun Studio Early Access Program This program provides Sun's customers and technology partners with a preview of the next release of Sun Studio software - a comprehensive development suite for Sun's platforms. This Sun Studio Early Access release includes:
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Note: This software is early access and not production quality, so youmay experience some bugs and performance anomalies in the software. Finally, please let Sun know about your experience with this Sun Studio Early Access release, whether it's praise or criticism. http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/ea/ss9/index.html 10th Anniversary Stanford Medical Informatics Short Course Stanford invites you to participate in our 2004 on-campus short course, which provides an overview of key topics in medical informatics with an emphasis on electronic health record issues. There is a computer lab session each day to reinforce the lecture topics. June 15-18 in Palo Alto, California. The distance learning version of the 2003 conference is also available. http://www.smi.stanford.edu/shortcourse.html or email shortcourse@smi.stanford.edu or phone 650-723-6979 LifeScience e-Zine articles of interest: Starter Cluster Set to Go Sun's six-CPU Starter Cluster offers an affordable choice for high-performance technical computing. /br/0204_ezine/ls_cluster.html Grid Training Gets Real In updating its grid technology courses for technical markets, Sun takes a solutions-based approach. /br/0204_ezine/ls_train.html Easy Access for WU BLAST 2.0 for Academic and Non-profit Licensing Warren Gish writes: "WU BLAST 2.0 binaries for a wide variety of computing platforms, including 64-bit Linux on Opteron, can now be licensed on-line for academic and nonprofit use [for users located in the U.S.A. or in countries to which software can be exported under U.S. Export Control Regulations without a license]. Users can now obtain the software in a matter of minutes, instead of having to negotiate an inter-institutional site license as before." ....Licensees are welcome to install the software for free public access to BLAST search services. http://blast.wustl.edu/licensing From EduConnection: Digital Archive at UCSF Provides Public Access to Tobacco Industry Data IN THIS ARTICLE:
/products-n-solutions/edu/newsletter/educonnection/mar04/pdf/sunedu012_mar.pdf JAVA based SDSC Molecular Biology Toolkit Released Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have released the Molecular BiologyToolkit (MBT), a set of Java-based software libraries for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing information about proteins, DNA, and RNA. http://www.sdsc.edu/Press/03/021904_MBT.html Question From Our Website: Software for exploiting block-like structures in SNP haplotypes? Does [anyone] have any [...] plans to offer any solutions utilizing the recent discovery of block like structures in the SNP haplotypes? These blocks can be completely identified with a minimum number of 'tagged' SNPs which are sufficient to predict the rest of the SNPs in the block. This method can prove to be a potentially powerful tool, if developed further, not only in construction of haplotypes from the genotype data, but also in linkage and disease association studies with a far less cost of genotyping and much greater effeciancies compared with the earlier QTL methods. There are some methods which further enhance the capability of the 'b[l]ock' method: for example the 'bounded width method' which obviates the need of drawing block boundries, thereby allocating 'critical' values of window widths so as to maximized the 'informativeness' of the MIS (Minimum Informative set of SNPs). This method may also have additional power if it allows for overlapping between the subsequent window widths. Prateek Kumar [prateek_kr@rediffmail.com] Please contact Prateek Kumar directly.
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