From i.e.efremov from gmail.com Mon Jul 13 00:36:05 2009 From: i.e.efremov from gmail.com (Ivan Efremov) Date: Mon Jul 13 06:03:11 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Unipro UGENE v1.5 released Message-ID: <27ea4d05-7789-4ae6-b529-e0fdf0ae8309@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com> After several months of work our team is glad to announce a long- awaited version of free and open-source UGENE bioinformatics suite. Version 1.5 adds 4 new plugins and brings numerous improvements and bug fixes. New plugins: HMM3 - profile HMM tool based on Eddy's HMMER 3.0b2, Primer3 - integrated primer3 tool for PCR primers design, Gor4 and Psipred - secondary structure prediction algorithms. Major improvements were done in PDB and MMDB files viewer and annotations editor. Added functionality for loading remote files from PDB, Uniprot, Swissprot. The complete list of changes can be found here: http://ugene.unipro.ru/changelist.html Project web site: http://ugene.unipro.ru/ From sticher from bioc.uzh.ch Fri Jul 17 08:50:51 2009 From: sticher from bioc.uzh.ch (Patrick Sticher) Date: Fri Jul 17 12:49:45 2009 Subject: [Bionews] NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology / NCCR Practical Course on Biomolecular Modelling Message-ID: <4A6081BB.7040407@bioc.uzh.ch> Dear colleagues, we have two announcements to make: _____________________________________________________________ 7th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology 7 + 8 September 2009, ETH Z?rich, Lecture Hall HG E7, Z?rich, Switzerland www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009 The lecture program is available online at: http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009/program.asp Plenary lecturers: Fr?d?ric Allain, Pietro de Camilli, Raimund Dutzler, Arthur L. Horwich, Brian Kobilka, Harry Noller, Anna Marie Pyle, Ben Schuler, David Wemmer, Masasuke Yoshida Online registration to this event is still possible through the symposium homepage or directly at: http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/symposium2009/registration09.asp _____________________________________________________________ 8th NCCR Practical Course and 2nd Winter School Biomolecular Modelling The 8th NCCR Practical Course will cover key topics in the area of computational structural biology. The course format includes morning lectures by experts in the field that alternate with later afternoon to evening tutorials and discussions. The course will be organized as a winter retreat in the Swiss alps offering participants the opportunity to learn in a stimulating atmosphere, enjoy winter activities in the swiss alps during course breaks, and network and exchange ideas on an informal basis with fellow participants, tutors, and lecturers. More information at http://www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/course2010.asp Online Application will be possible as of July 31, 2009 _____________________________________________________________ Please do not hesitate to contact me anytime if you need further information (sticher@bioc.uzh.ch). With best regards, Patrick Sticher The NCCR Structural Biology is a research initiative of the Swiss Science Foundation. Its research encompasses the fields of recombinant protein technologies, macromolecular structure determination and computational biomolecular sciences with a special focus on membrane proteins and supramolecular assemblies/interactions. 13 research groups from Swiss Universities and Research Institutions participate in this network. www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch/ -- _________________________________ Visit the NCCR on the Internet www.structuralbiology.uzh.ch Dr. Patrick Sticher Moser NCCR Scientific Officer Institute of Biochemistry University of Z?rich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH - 8057 Z?rich Phone +41 / (0)44 / 635 54 84 Fax +41 / (0)44 / 635 59 08 Mail sticher@bioc.uzh.ch From clements from nescent.org Fri Jul 17 23:02:31 2009 From: clements from nescent.org (Dave Clements) Date: Sat Jul 18 13:31:30 2009 Subject: [Bionews] GMOD Community Meeting, 6-7 August, 2009, Oxford UK In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There will be a GMOD Community Meeting, 6-7 August, 2009 at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, UK. GMOD (http://gmod.org) is a collection of interoperable, open-source software components for managing, visualizing, annotating, and sharing biological data. GMOD is also a community of users and developers addressing common challenges with their biological data. The popularity of next generation sequencing and other high-throughput methods has made this GMOD meeting particularly timely. GMOD meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn best practices from other researchers, to meet GMOD users and developers, and to learn and affect what is coming in the project. As with previous meetings, there will be a mixture of project talks, component-focused talks, and user talks. Registration for the meeting is now open and space is available on a first come, first served basis. Attendance is limited to the first 55 people to register. The meeting cost is ?50. See http://gmod.org/wiki/August_2009_GMOD_Meeting to register for more. Please join us in Oxford this August. Cheers, Dave Clements GMOD Help Desk -- Register now for the August GMOD Meeting: http://gmod.org/wiki/August_2009_GMOD_Meeting