Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 4 January 2005
Honeycomb to Sweeten Sun NAS line The Honeycomb is a *future* Sun NAS storage product with very interesting properties for Comp. Bio. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1106050197;fp;16;fpid;0 or, http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/23/HNhoneycombnas_1.html Announcing Biozon (http://biozon.org/) - a new knowledge resource of heterogeneous biological data. Golan Yona writes: Biozon integrates published data on DNA sequences, protein sequences, protein structures, protein-protein interactions, cellular pathways and protein families derived from sources such as PDB, Genbank, Uniprot, KEGG, and BIND. Biozon augments this data with in-house derived data such as sequence or structure similarity, predicted interactions, and predicted domains. Biozon data sets include (among others)
~38 Million nucleic acid sequences The complete statistics is available at http://biozon.org/doc/statistics.html Call for Presentations: Int'l Conf. on Web Services for Comp. Bio. and Bioinformatics, 26-27 May 2005, Blacksburg, VA, EXTENDED The deadline for submission of the Call for Presentations is EXTENDED to Jan 31, 2005: http://webconference.vbi.vt.edu AIST and Sun Microsystems Sign a Joint Research Agreement on a Massive Computing Grid Tokyo, December 1, 2004 - Sun Microsystems K.K. announced today that it signed a joint research agreement with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) on November 30, with a focus on evaluating the validity and performance of a massive computing grid. AIST is an independent administrative institution headed by President Hiroyuki Yoshikawa. The latest agreement, together with the Sun Center of Excellence (COE) agreement signed in June between Sun and the Grid Technology Research Center (a division of AIST; Director: Satoshi Sekiguchi), will drive the joint grid computing research into high gear. Webinar Series Reminder: Say Hello To Geospiza: One Million Chromats Milestone and Bringing Core Genome Technology to the Lab, 7 Jan 2005, 9am PST Topic: Say Hello To Geospiza: One Million Chromats Milestone and Bringing Core Genome Technology to the Lab Date: Friday, January 7, 2005 Time: 9:00 am, Pacific Standard Time Details: A case study: discuss assembling bacterial genomes; challenges, strategies, solutions, grid, cluster computing, v20z, all in the context of a national USA Government lab's proprietary methods and technologies. Please register at: http://events-at-sun.com/webinars/ You may also be eligible to enroll in our Server Sweepstakes where you could win a dual AMD Opteron processor Sun Fire V20z server pre-loaded with either VIBE bioinformatics workflow software from INOGEN _or_æ Finch Suite from Geospiza, a solution for DNA sequencing and data production, assembly, genotyping and invoice management.æ See rules of entry will be notified of acceptance of their presentation by January 31, 2005. "Say Hello To..." Sun LifeScience Webinar Series, Special Promos, Sweepstakes, etc. http://www.zap-design.com/xerox/Sun_LifeSci.html Thanks very much for your help. Send your information to: stefan.unger@sun.com
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