From gws from ncifcrf.gov Tue Jun 16 09:25:43 2009 From: gws from ncifcrf.gov (Gary Smythers) Date: Tue Jun 16 10:18:52 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Announcement: GenPept 172.0 available Message-ID: <20090616142543.2A0ABA4001@bio1.ncifcrf.gov> This is to announce the availability of release 172.0 of the GenPept(R) (GenBank Gene Products) Database. GenPept is provided in a format similar to that formerly distributed by GenBank(R) under the administration of Intelligenetics Inc. This GenPept release IS _NOT_ AN OFFICIAL RELEASE FROM THE NCBI-GENBANK, but an attempt to provide a data file format compatible with existing software products. This data format is suitable as an input data file for the GCG program genbanktogcg -genpept. Compatibility with other software has not been tested. Site: ftp.ncifcrf.gov Directory: pub/genpept Files: gprel.txt.gz, gpdat.seq.gz, gpdat.fasta.gz Directory: pub/genpept/divisions Files: 1 file for each GenBank file Directory: pub/genpept/updates (daily, cumulative) Files: gpseq_updates.dat.gz Rel. Date: 15-Jun-2009 If you have questions or comments concerning this data, or you experience any difficulty in downloading the data via ftp, please contact: Gary Smythers gws@ncifcrf.gov 301-846-5778 or Bob Stephens bobs@ncifcrf.gov ================================================================ GenPept (R) and GenBank (R) are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the GenBank Gene Products and the GenBank Genetic Sequence Data Banks. From Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com Fri Jun 26 09:10:44 2009 From: Rob.Reedijk from douglasconnect.com (Robby) Date: Fri Jun 26 12:06:29 2009 Subject: [Bionews] Program Available - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics: eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting; Philadelphia Oct 09 Message-ID: The program with abstracts for the Autumn eCheminfo Community of Practice meeting on Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics is now almost complete and available at http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferencesprog09 and will be updated there as remaining abstracts are received. The meeting will take place October 13-16, 2009 at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. The topics addressed this year will include Structure-based Drug Design Applications and Methods, Macromolecular Interactions and Networks, Chemical Biological Data Analysis and Visualisation, PDB Ligands, and Combining in vitro and in silico Techniques in Predictive Toxicology Applications. This meeting will take place concurrently with the InnovationWell 2009 meeting addressing the topics of Collaboration in Discovery and Development, Translational Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Biomarkers, Blood Brain Barrier modeling and Predictive Toxicology. A pre-conference best practices workshop on Predicting Binding Energy Affinities will take place October 12, 2009 and is open to all conference registrants. To download a pdf of the program: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/files/echeminfoprogrambrynmawr09.pdf To register for the meeting, please visit: http://echeminfo-bm910.eventsbot.com/ Contact: Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. email: barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo - [at]- douglasconnect.com Meeting Support: Rob Reedijk, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas Connect. email: rob.reedijk -[at]- douglasconnect.com