NCBI Webinar

NCBI will be hosting a webinar at the University of Michigan to give an overview on their latest tools and updates to existing ones.  The webinar will take place at 2pm on Tuesday, September 29th.  Those people on campus who are interested in attending should register using the Teaching and Technology Collaborative website (https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=3367).  Login is required.  Contact the Health Sciences Libraries if you have any questions.

NIH Opens Website for hESC

NIH is accepting requests for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines to be approved for use in NIH-funded research. Information may be submitted at http://stemcells.nih.gov/.

Read the full NIH News release at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2009/od-21.htm

NCBI Mailing Lists

The National Center for Biotechnology Information has announced that they have three mailing lists for announcing changes to specific resources:

• Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB)
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/structure-announce
• Conserved Domain Database (CDD)

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/cdd-announce

• BioSystems
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/biosystems-announce

Epigenomics Funding

NIH will fund 22 grants on genome-wide studies on epigenomics for a total of $69 million over the next five years. Since many of you are studying epigenomics as part of your bioinformatics work, it may be worth checking out the projects that are getting funded.  The full NIH news release is available here.  Congratulations to the awardees!