Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - 23 March 2005

Genome Canada Bioinformatics Course, 30 Apr - 8 May, Calgary

The Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC)
April 30 - May 8, 2005, Calgary, Alberta
Reminder: Registration Deadline is April 15th, 2005

• 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
• Canadian 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

For more information about this workshop, please go to www.gcbioinformatics.ca

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COE Spotlight: Sun Centre of Excellence for Visual Genomics at the University of Calgary

"The Sun Centre of Excellence for Visual Genomics at the University of Calgary is one of Canada's premier bioinformatics laboratories.  It uses a Solaris-powered server cluster to provide many Web-based services to any bioinformatics researcher, including:

• "MAGPIE" functional analysis of public genomes (http://magpie.ucalgary.ca/),
• "Bluejay" Java-based genome visualization and microarray analysis (http://bluejay.ucalgary.ca/),
• "Osprey" oligonucleotide design (http://osprey.ucalgary.ca/)
• "Jabiru" virtual-reality porting utilities for Java3D applications (http://jabiru.ucalgary.ca/).
• Decypher, BlastMachine and GeneMatcher bioinformatics accelerators for functional analysis (http://coe02.ucalgary.ca/ and http://coe04.ucalgary.ca/)

These sites receive over 50,000 page requests a month from across the globe.

Through Genome Canada funding and administered by Genome Prairie, the COE is also home to the Distributed and Integrated Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform. One of the services that the platform provides is teaching scientists how to become bioinformatics power users through a dedicated training series called the Applied Computational Genomics Course. The next workshop is offered in Calgary, AB, April 30 - May 8, 2005. For further information, please see http://www.gcbioinformatics.ca."

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Sun Corporate and Other News of Interest to Computational Biology

Solaris 10 Casts Long Shadow
eWeek, 3/14/05; Jason Brooks
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1774989,00.asp

Microsoft's Sun server fetish revealed
http://www.theregister.com/2005/03/11/ms_gets_sunkit/
"It turns out that Microsoft has just acquired $850,000 worth of Sun's Opteron-based servers and storage systems."

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Registration Site for HPC Consortium, Heidelberg, 20-21 June 2005; CB-SIG Speakers Needed

There is some information here, but the registration is NOT yet open. The HPCC meeting is immediately before the ISC2005
meeting in Heidelberg ( http://www.isc2005.org/).

Please bookmark and check back.

There will be a CB-SIG on the morning of the 21st June. We have speakers from U. Calgary (Turinski), Parc Cientifico de Madrid (Carazo)and ETH (Harders). We need two more speakers. If you are doing interesting work using Sun technology and would like to talk, please email me.

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Solaris 10 for Sparc or x86/x64 Free Downloads for Non-Commercial Use

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.jsp
see also: http://www.opensolaris.org/

Note that there have been over 1 million downloads of Solaris 10!

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