From zhu@iastate.edu Mon May 15 16:40:14 2006 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:40:20 -0500 From: Zhiliang Hu Subject: What's new on the NAGRP animal genome web site (#2, 2006) To: Multiple Recipients of What's new on the NAGRP animal genome web site (#2, 2006): o The Cattle genome information web site is re-designed and updated http://www.animalgenome.org/cattle/ o A set of a few new tools are made public for free use: - Sequence alignment drawing tool http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/util/lined - Reverse compliment sequences converter http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/util/revc - Prim2 - design primers on the consensus of 2 similar sequences http://www.animalgenome.org/~hu/expeditor/prim2 o A GO terms classification counter tool has its beta release to public (A new "Questions and Answers" section are added as a user guide) http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/tools/countgo/ You can also find it through the Gene Ontology "GO Tools" list from http://www.geneontology.org/ o New features are added to report swine genome sequencing progress. http://www.animalgenome.org/pigs/genomesequence/ o An Animal Trait Ontology (ATO) Editor by Jie Bao et al. is released for free download: http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/projects/ATO/ Those who are interested in joining ATO development activities please contact: bioinfo-team@animalgenome.org o The NAGRP Bioinformatics coordination web site has an extensive update (many pages were updated over the past a few months): http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/ o The aquagenomics community directory is modified to allow members to upload the PDF files and keep a list of their publications: http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/angenmap/aqua_dir.pl (Users are encouraged to voice out if you wish to have this feature available to the general or specific community).