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Canadian Bioinformatics Help Desk Newsletter Archive
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September 15, 2010 -- Issue 110
- Software Spotlight: AltAnalyze and Domain Graph
- What's New? — Sequencing of Cacao Genome Will Help U.S. Chocolate Industry, Subsistence Farmers in Tropical Regions — Computational Core to Develop Protein Modeling Tools, Database for Membrane Protein Study — Special focus on glycomics in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
- August 27, 2010 -- Issue 109
- July 17, 2010 -- Issue 108
- June 28, 2010 -- Issue 107
- June 15, 2010 -- Issue 106
- June 1, 2010 -- Issue 105
- May 14, 2010 -- Issue 104
- April 29, 2010 -- Issue 103
- April 17, 2010 -- Issue 102
- March 31, 2010 -- Issue 101
- March 17, 2010 -- Issue 100
- March 2, 2010 -- Issue 99
- February 15, 2010 -- Issue 98
- February 1, 2010 -- Issue 97
- January 15, 2010 -- Issue 96
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January 2, 2010 -- Issue 95
- Software Spotlight: PathVisio
- What's New? — On Perl Programs — Reactome Version 31 Release, Webinar Slides, and Survey — What is Bioinformatics
- December 15, 2009 -- Issue 94
- December 1, 2009 -- Issue 93
- November 13, 2009 -- Issue 92
- October 30, 2009 -- Issue 91
- October 15, 2009 -- Issue 90
- September 30, 2009 -- Issue 89
- September 16, 2009 -- Issue 88
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August 28, 2009 -- Issue 87
- Degree Spotlight: University of Toronto Undergraduate Specialist B.Sc. in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology / Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Genome Biology & Bioinformatics
- What's New? — SecureGenome Software — What is your preferred bio-flavor of Linux? — UK investment helps European Bioinformatics Institute prepare for ELIXIR project
- August 15, 2009 -- Issue 86
- July 29, 2009 -- Issue 85
- July 10, 2009 -- Issue 84
- June 24, 2009 -- Issue 83
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June 3, 2009 -- Issue 82
- Software Spotlight: PROTEUS2
- What's New? — Microsoft Buys Rosetta — EpiSearch — Two New Applied Genomics Research in Bioproducts or Crops (ABC) Competition Projects — Ontario Innovation Leadership Award to Dr Ming Li
- Bioinformatics Meetings: The Fifth International Conference of the Metabolomics Society
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May 15, 2009 -- Issue 81
- Software Spotlight: BioSpider
- What's New? — Metabolomics Society Meeting — Daggoo — Moby and Moby2: Creatures of the Deep (Web)
- May 1, 2009 -- Issue 80
- March 16, 2009 -- Issue 79
- February 3, 2009 -- Issue 78
- January 8, 2009 -- Issue 77
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December 15, 2008 -- Issue 76
- Software Spotlight: Cytoscape
- What's New? — Pathogen Interaction Gateway — Turkey Genome Sequencing — Pathguide
- November 28, 2008 -- Issue 75
- November 5, 2008 -- Issue 74
- October 17, 2008 -- Issue 73
- October 1, 2008 -- Issue 72
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April 11, 2008 -- Issue 71
- Software Spotlight: BioTapestry
- What's New? — Gene Snips — Bioinformatics.Org Newsletter — Paxtools — CAVEman
- January 18, 2008 -- Issue 70
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December 13, 2007 -- Issue 69
- Software Spotlight: FlexArray
- What's New? — ArrayExpress Database — Python Primer — ThermonucleotideBLAST
- October 29, 2007 -- Issue 68
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September 6, 2007 -- Issue 67
- Platform Profile: The Statistical Consulting Service at TCAG
- What's New? — Chromhome — MetaBase version 1.0 — CAVEman Demos
- Help Desk Software Repository: Retrieve_Entrez_Gene_Info.pl —
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May 29, 2007 -- Issue 66
- Conference Spotlight: Canadian Proteomics Initiative(CPI) 2007
- What's New? — UniProt Metagenomic and Environmental Sequences (UniMES) database Released — Geneticists identify four new breast-cancer genes — Researchers develop High-Res '4-D' vision of human body — Cheaper, potentially better disease treatments expected — Carnegie Mellon University scientists identify genes activated during mearning and memory
- April 23, 2007 -- Issue 65
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February 16, 2007 -- Issue 64
- Software Spotlight: LOCATE
- What's New? — Man-made Proteins could be more useful than Real Ones — What is Junk DNA? And what is it worth? — 'Gateway' gene discovered for brain cancer — Software: CESE 1.4.6 released — Gene Test to spot Adults who may get Diabetes — Alberta Scientists map Human Metabolome
- January 29, 2007 -- Issue 63
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December 14, 2006 -- Issue 62
- Software Spotlight: Proteus
- What's New? — LabSynch — Stem cells offer hope in diabetes treatment — Mutation helps explain Noonan Syndrome — Sex-specific loss may explain sex-differences — Map charting the genetic variability of the malaria parasite completed — SNP genotyping with the Illumina chip (interview)
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November 6, 2006 -- Issue 61
- Software Spotlight: Ortholuge
- What's New? — Secrets Revealed in Sequencing of Honey Bee Genome — Proteins May Predict Lung Transplant Rejection — Nerve Cell Software keeps track of Brain Change — UA researchers find smallest Cellular Genome — Pooled Data examines if SNPs add to Breast Cancer Risk — CESE 1.4.5 released
- August 29, 2006 -- Issue 60
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August 1, 2006 -- Issue 59
- Software Spotlight: ORegAnno
- What's New? — GLAM — SimBiology — Ashburner Receives Franklin Award
- Help Desk Software Repository: remote_blast_client.pl
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July 20, 2006 -- Issue 58
- Software Spotlight: GenMAPP 2.1
- What's New? — Evolutionary Bioinformatics — Open REGulatory ANNOtation Database — Asterias
- Help Desk Software Repository: local_blast_client.pl
- June 8, 2006 -- Issue 57
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May 23, 2006 -- Issue 56
- Software Spotlight: BIRCH
- Workshop Spotlight: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops Series - Proteomics
- What's New? — Proxeon ProteinCenter(TM) Open Access — Open Source Bioinformatics — Bioinformatics in Structure-Based Drug Design Review Article
- March 23, 2006 -- Issue 55
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March 7, 2006 -- Issue 54
- Software Spotlight: DrugBank
- Hardware Spotlight: Sun's Discovery Cluster for the Life Sciences
- Workshop Spotlight: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop: Genomics
- What's New? — Unleashed Informatics' Free DogBox Online — Review on Federated Databases in Bioinformatics and Translational Medical Research — Winner of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award
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January 30, 2006 -- Issue 53
- Software Spotlight: IslandPath and Other Computational Methods that Aid in the Identification of Prokaryotic Genomic Islands
- What's New? — DogRun BLAST Server — 2006 Franklin Award Nominees — Review article on federated databases
- Help Desk Software Repository: generic_ncbi_data_fetcher.pl
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January 10, 2006 -- Issue 52
- Software Spotlight: The diNucleotide Tandem Repeat Finder
- What's New? — DrugBank — Bioinformatics at Argonne National Laboratory — Review article: Designing chemical compound libraries
- Bioinformatics Meeting: CPI 2006
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December 8, 2005 -- Issue 51
- Workshop Spotlight: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops
- What's New? — KLblaster — BioBrew Roll 4.1 — FSA-BLAST
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November 24, 2005 -- Two Year Anniversary Issue
- Two Years in Review: Two Year Compendium
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November 10, 2005 -- Issue 50
- Software Spotlight: DogBox™ Unleashes Power in Data Management
- What's New? — Free Dashboard Widgets for Biologists — NetPrimer — ReNaBI
- Bioinformatics Degrees: Carleton University
- Help Desk Software Repository: remove_duplicate_seqs.pl
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October 27, 2005 -- Issue 49
- Software Spotlight: GenMAPP 2
- What's New? — Bioinformatics Platform for Genome Canada Survey — ProTag — BLAST Review Article
- Help Desk Software Repository: blastx_client3_1.pl
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October 6, 2005 -- Issue 48
- Training Spotlight: Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
- What's New? — Bioinformatics Platform for Genome Canada Survey — BioTeam Offers Free Bioinformatics Application Installer for Mac — New National Center for Biomedical Ontology — Micro-Mar Database
- Bioinformatics Meetings: Metabolomics Symposium
- Help Desk Software Repository: blastn_client3_1.pl
- September 22, 2005 -- Issue 47
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September 8, 2005 -- Issue 46
- Software Spotlight: MovieMaker
- What's New? — R&D Magazine's 2005 Top 100 Award Goes to Genomatica for SimPheny™ — InterProSurf — Dreams of a Virtual E. coli
- Bioinformatics Training: Free Bioinformatics Platform Seminar and Workshop—Université de Montréal
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August 25, 2005 -- Issue 45
- Software Spotlight: BASys
- Workshop Spotlight: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Computational Biology
- What's New? — Genome Canada Competition III Results — CLC Free Workbench 1.0 Release — Public DNA/RNA Sequence Collections Reach 100 Gigabases
- Bioinformatics Training: Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
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August 11, 2005 -- Issue 44
- Bioinformatics Profile: BIRCH
- What's New? — A Multitude of Markup Languages — Blueprint Releases BIND Interaction Viewer 3.51 — Blueprint's Armadillo
- Bioinformatics Training: Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
- Help Desk Software Repository: feature_parse.pl
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July 14, 2005 -- Issue 43
- Bioinformatics Profile: The Botany Array Resource
- What's New? — Bioinformatics Platform for Genome Canada User Survey — Operon Array-Ready Oligo Sets — Bioinformatics Tools for Protein Analysis"
- Help Desk Software Repository: fetch_protein_v_2.pl
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June 30, 2005 -- Issue 42
- Software Spotlight: Quantian
- What's New? — BASys Web Server — MovieMaker Web Server — Bioinformatics in 3D
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Microarray Analysis Workshop
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June 16, 2005 -- Issue 41
- Software Spotlight: Base-By-Base
- What's New? — Blueprint Develops ProteoGlyphs — New Bioinformatics Technique for Identification of DNA Regulatory Sites — Digital Cells"
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Microarray Analysis Workshop — Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
- Help Desk Software Repository: retrieve_seq_v2.pl
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June 2, 2005 -- Issue 40
- Software Spotlight: Circos
- Training Spotlight: Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
- What's New? — Integrated Microbial Genomes Version 1.1 — MedScan™ Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0 — First Multi-Species Build of cisRED
- Bioinformatics Training: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops—Proteomics — CBRi Microarray Analysis Workshop — Advanced Applied Computational Genomics Course
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May 19, 2005 -- Issue 39
- Workshop Spotlight: 2006 Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops
- What's New? — E. coli Interactome Map Data Added to BIND — DogBox™ Unleashed — PathwayStudio™ Central Release
- Bioinformatics Training: Free Vancouver Bioinformatics Platform for Genome Canada Seminar and Workshop — CBRi Cheminformatics Workshop — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Proteomics
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May 5, 2005 -- Issue 38
- Software Spotlight: GEPIS (Gene Expression Profiling in silico)
- Workshop Spotlight: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops: Proteomics Workshop
- Degree Spotlight: UBC's Bachelor of Computer Science (Integrated Computer Science) Program
- What's New? — The Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics — InstaSeq — Micro-Mar Database
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Cheminformatics Workshop — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Proteomics
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April 14, 2005 -- Issue 37
- Software Spotlight: Gene Expression Analysis using Bluejay
- What's New? — Blueprint's SMID-Genomes Tool — BIND Surpasses 170,000 Records — BioModels Release
- Bioinformatics Training: Free Calgary Bioinformatics Platform Seminar and Workshop — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Genomics
- Help Desk Software Repository: three_frames.pl
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March 31, 2005 -- Issue 36
- Training Spotlight: Genome Canada Bioinformatics Course: The Applied Computational Genomics Course
- What's New? — Canada's Blueprint Initiative Partners with Germany's Institute for Bioinformatics — UBC Team Sequences Largest Bacterial Genome — Agilent's Free Automated Literature Search Tool for Biology Researchers
- Bioinformatics Training: Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Genomics
- Help Desk Software Repository: genbank_to_cgview.pl
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March 17, 2005 -- Issue 35
- Bioinformatics Profile: The Environmental Genomics Thematic Programme Data Centre
- Software Spotlight: BioLand Linux
- What's New? — binfoPlasma—The Bioinformatics Encyclopedia — Hardware-Based Data Analysis Acceleration — NCI's caArray version 1.0
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Cheminformatics Workshop — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Genomics
- Help Desk Software Repository: remove_duplicates.pl
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March 3, 2005 -- Issue 34
- Software Spotlight: Gearing up for Bioinformatics
- What's New? — NCBI Coffee Break Tutorials — Oncogenomics Normal Tissue Database — Blueprint Releases Latest Version of BIND
- Bioinformatics Training: CBHD Seminar and Workshop — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Genomics
- Help Desk Software Repository: remove_x.pl
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February 17, 2005 -- Issue 33
- Software Spotlights: PAGOSUB and AMIADA
- What's New? — Blueprint's Small Molecule Interaction Database — E. coli Protein Interaction Network Data — Human Regulatory Element Database Release
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Bioinformatics of Virus Genomes — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC) — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop—Genomics
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February 3, 2005 -- Issue 32
- Software Spotlights: BacMap and PSORT.org, PSORTb and PSORTdb
- What's New? — Biology News Launched — GeneNotes — Sun Microsystems' Computational Biology Special Interest Group
- Bioinformatics Training: CBHD Seminar and Workshop — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop — CBRi Bioinformatics of Virus Genomes — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC)
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January 20, 2005 -- Issue 31
- Software Spotlight: OSCAR 4.0 — OSCAR Home Page
- What's New? — New GeneLinker(TM) Releases — 2005 Databases Galore — PLoS Computational Biology Journal
- Bioinformatics Training: Text Mining Tools for Bioinformaticians and Biologists — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop — CBRi Bioinformatics of Virus Genomes — Applied Computational Genomics Course (ACGC)
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January 6, 2005 -- Issue 30
- Software Spotlight: GenMAPP
- What's New? — MolBiol.Net Toolbar — Bio-Linux 4.0 Released — Growth and Progression of Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics Training: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop — University of Toronto - New Specialist Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- December 23, 2004 -- 2004 Year End Issue
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December 16, 2004 -- Issue 29
- Bioinformatics Profile: Sun Solutions for Computational Biology
- Software Spotlight: SEQUEROME
- Workshop Spotlight: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop
- What's New? — Latest version of mpiBLAST Released — Allen Brain Atlas — New Quantian Release
- Bioinformatics Training: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop — University of Toronto - New Specialist Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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December 2, 2004 -- Issue 28
- Software Spotlight: Chinook 1.0 Release
- What's New? — New BIND Datasets — PathwayAssist™ 3.0 Release
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Bioinformatics Tools in Drug Discovery Workshop — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop — Computational and Statistical Aspects of Microarray Analysis (Third Edition)
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November 18, 2004 -- Issue 27
- Software Spotlight: TIGR's Multiexperiment Viewer
- What's New? — Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins — NASA Human Genome Activity Study — OSCAR 4.0 Release
- Bioinformatics Training: ACGC - Registration Extended until November 27 — CBRi Bioinformatics Tools in Drug Discovery Workshop — Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop
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November 4, 2004 -- Issue 26
- Software Spotlights: MOBY Support in Taverna and Genquire™ — A Genome Annotation Workstation for Biologists
- What's New? — VLinux Bioinformatics Workbench — Microbial Genome Viewer — CGView Genome Viewer
- Bioinformatics Training: ACGC - Registration Closes on November 5 — CBRi Bioinformatics Tools in Drug Discovery Workshop
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October 21, 2004 -- Issue 25
- Software Spotlight: BioneQ's Bioinformatics Knowledge Base
- Training Spotlight: Applied Computational Genomics Course in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- What's New? — Finished Human Genome Sequence — New Phosphoprotein Screening Service — Bovine Genome Assembled
- Bioinformatics Training: ACGC - Registration Ends in 2 Weeks
- Help Desk Software Repository: The Repository's New Look
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October 7, 2004 -- Issue 24
- Software Spotlight: SeqHound: The Next Iteration
- What's New? — Maurice Wilkins Dies — Ariadne Genomics Wins NIH Grant — BioBar Mozilla Toolbar — Cancer Gene Map
- Bioinformatics Training: ACGC - Early Bird Registration ends on October 15
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September 23, 2004 -- Issue 23
- Bioinformatics Profile: The Ontario Genomics Innovation Centre Bioinformatics Group
- Software Spotlight: DAMBE
- What's New? — Blueprint Brings Together Genome and Interaction Worlds — Ariadne Genomics and GeneGo Collaboration — Blueprint's Small-Molecule Interaction Database
- Bioinformatics Training: CBRi Microarray Analysis Workshop
- Help Desk Software Repository: Hydrophobicity Profiler
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September 9, 2004 -- Issue 22
- Bioinformatics Profile: The Robert-Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics at the Universite de Montreal
- What's New? — CBHD Web Servers Page — SeqHound Overhaul — Apple Bioinformatics Award Winners
- Bioinformatics Training: ACGC Halifax
- Help Desk Software Repository: CBHD Web Servers Page
- August 26, 2004 -- Issue 21
- August 12, 2004 -- Issue 20
- July 29, 2004 -- Issue 19
- July 15, 2004 -- Issue 18
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June 24, 2004 -- Issue 17
- Software Spotlights: SeqHound and Proteome Analyst
- What's New? — Open Source Approach to Medicine? — Cartwheel/Family Jewels — Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel Database
- Help Desk Software Repository: random_seq_sample.pl
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June 10, 2004 -- Issue 16
- Freeware Software Spotlight: Pegasys
- Commercial Software Spotlight: Avadis™ Microarray Gene Expression Software
- What's New? — Sequence Manipulation Suite 2 — Reactome Database — GeneLinker(TM) Gold & Platinum 4.5
- Help Desk Software Repository: go_fish_source.pl
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May 27, 2004 -- Issue 15
- Bioinformatics Profile: The Centre for Applied Computational Genomics
- Software Spotlight: GMOD and GBROWSE
- What's New? — WebSIDD Server — EMBOSS Funding — MetaCyc Metabolic Pathway Database
- Help Desk Software Repository: batch_bind_blast.pl
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May 13, 2004 -- Issue 14
- Bioinformatics Profile: Le Laboratoire de Biologie Informatique et Théorique (LBIT)
- Commercial Software Spotlight: iRNAwiz™
- What's New? — Karyn's Genomes — Ensembl v21 Released — Ensembl Special Issue — Chinook Wins BCNet Award
- Help Desk Software Repository: microarray_randomizer.pl and retrieve_seq.pl
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April 29, 2004 -- Issue 13
- Bioinformatics Profile: BioneQ
- Commercial Software Spotlight: MBI Oligo™
- What's New? — UBiC's Pegasus Release — Chromosome 7 Assembly & Annotation — The State of Transcriptome Analysis — Microarray Analysis Methods
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April 15, 2004 -- Issue 12
- Bioinformatics Profiles: ProbeLynx and ArrayPipe
- Software Spotlight: AmiGO
- What's New? — $123M in Genome Canada Human Health Grants — Vigyaan Bio/Chemical Software Workbench — Canada's High Tech Approach to Fighting Cancer — Canadian Fish and Chips
- Help Desk Software Repository: compare_library.pl
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April 1, 2004 -- Issue 11
- Software Spotlight: Chinook
- What's New? — Rat Genome Sequenced — Large Scale Sequencing Database — $60M to Genome Canada — Java APIs for Bioinformatics
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March 18, 2004 -- Issue 10
- Bioinformatics Profile: Bioinformatics.ca — What is it? — Training Opportunities — Community Resources — Resources for Research
- Workshop Spotlight on the CPI '04 Tutorials — Bioinformatics for Proteomics — Protein-Protein Interactions — Practical Proteomics — Register for a workshop
- Help Desk Software Repository: fetch_swissprot_using_id.pl
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March 4, 2004 -- Issue 9
- Bioinformatics Profile: Faster Sequence Database Searches
- Commercial Software Spotlight: Phoretix 1D
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February 19, 2004 -- Issue 8
- Bioinformatics Profile: Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop
- Freeware Software Spotlight: Programming in Perl Tutorial
- Commercial Software Spotlight: OptGene™
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February 5, 2004 -- Issue 7
- Bioinformatics Profile: The BIRCH Biocomputing Platform
- Freeware Software Spotlight: Sockeye 1.1
- Commercial Software Spotlight: Phoretix 2D
- Help Desk Software Repository: Sequence Manipulation Suite 2
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January 22, 2004 -- Issue 6
- Bioinformatics Profile: Proteome Analyst Subcellular Localization Prediction Server
- Freeware Software Spotlight: GenQuire
- Commercial Software Spotlight: ImaGene™
- Help Desk Software Repository: Sequence Extractor
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January 8, 2004 -- Issue 5
- Freeware Software Spotlight: CyberCell Database
- Commercial Software Spotlight: Genchek™
- Help Desk Software Repository: Programming in Perl tutorials - Part I and Part II
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December 19, 2003 -- Issue 4
- Bioinformatics Profile: Canadian Bioinformatics Resource - Canadian Bioinformatics Grid
- Software Spotlight: VADAR
- Help Desk Software Repository: evolving_peptide_search.pl
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December 11, 2003 -- Issue 3
- Bioinformatics Profile: Bluejay
- Software Spotlight: MAGPIE
- Help Desk Software Repository: align_learn.pl
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November 27, 2003 -- Issue 2
- Bioinformatics Profile: BioMOBY
- Software Spotlight: BioMOBY Publication
- Help Desk Software Repository: Genome Search and Genome Search Parser
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November 13, 2003 -- Issue 1
- Bioinformatics Profile: Canadian Bioinformatics Help Desk
- Software Spotlight: GelScape
- Help Desk Software Repository: Top 15 Downloads
