Lab News

Lab news

• Welcome two new Holmes lab members: Avinash Varadarajan (PhD) and Mitch Skinner (JBrowse.WebHome)!
• "Bioinformatics 2.0"? (nodalpoint.org)
• First fall Lab Meeting, Friday 9/8/2006
• Berkeley Lab Notes

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• UC Berkeley fall classes start Monday 8/28/2006...

• This week Benasque. Next month Fortaleza (7/13/2006)
  • Um, thanks Varig :-(

• Wiki review (Ian Holmes, lab meeting, 4/21/2006):
  • Xgram Format updated; see also Phylo Gram Perl Module
  • Stemloc Tutorial transferred from Sourceforge to biowiki
  • Stockholm Tools, Stockholm Perl Module Examples: perl modules for Stockholm format
  • Ongoing projects: Fly.NonCodingRNAAnnotationTransfer, Transposon Classification

%SESSION_IF_AUTHENTICATED% * Random Projects2006 is a sketch of project ideas for this year (lab members only) %SESSION_ENDIF%

• AJAX genome browser wiki (4/14/2006)
• Weekly Comp Synth Bio journal club at Potter Street from Monday 4/10/2006

• AJAX genome browser demo (early prototype only, caveats apply): http://genome.biowiki.org; discuss it here: Prototype GBrowse (3/3/06)
• The Babylon Cluster is finally burning hot, rendering Drosophila melanogaster chromosome 4 genomic tiles for an "AJAX-ified" version of the Generic Genome Browser that we are building. (2/7/06)
• We are now part of the Folding At Home distributed computing effort. Because every CPU cycle counts! (2/2/06)
• Babylon Cluster installed with Sun Grid Engine -- ready to crunch some fly DNA! (1/25/06)
• Check out the new navigator button, at top right, for Touch Graph navigation client (1/25/06)