New Release of CDART
Long time no post! NCBI has announced its new release of CDART, Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool with enhanced features such as:
- improved performance for long query proteins
- expanded input options: protein sequence, set of conserved domains
- display of similarity scores
- filtering of results
You’ll find CDART at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/lexington/lexington.cgi
Have fun!
Cytoscape Webinar
The Taubman Health Sciences Library and the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) are offering a remote Cytoscape training class via Adobe Connect. Cytoscape is an open source molecular interactions visualization tool.
Date: Monday, September 12, 2011
Time: 10:00am-11:00am EST
Instructor: Marci Brandenburg
For more information about this class and to register, please go to http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/cytotraining.html.
If you have any questions, please contact Marci Brandenburg at mbradenb@umich.edu or 615-1643.
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Provost Phil Hanlon announced the University of Michigan’s support to expand postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the social, behavioral and economics fields. Applications are currently being accepted and more information is available at the University Partnerships for Faculty Diversity site.
PNAS Editor to Head New OA Journal
Science Magazine reported that Randy Schekman will be the new editor-in-chief of a new open access journal slated to be released next year by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Wellcome Trust, and the Max Planck Society. Read the full news item here (at the bottom of the news page)! Read an interview with Randy Scheckman here.
EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow
Hey Everyone! Long time, no post. We are looking to have the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) do a Bioinformatics Roadshow at the University of Michigan. The question is: what do you want the trainers to teach?
So here’s your chance to let us know. Here’s a link to their Learning Objectives. Send us your feedback on what you want to see, and we may just get them here to show you!
