From zhu@iastate.edu  Fri Sep 15 16:31:29 2006
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:31:38 -0500
From: Zhiliang Hu <zhu@iastate.edu>
Subject: What's new on the NAGRP animal genome web site (#3, 2006)
To: Multiple Recipients of <angenmap@animalgenome.org>


What's new on the NAGRP animal genome web site (#3, 2006):

o The QTLdb is now open to public for data entry and updates. 
   One will need to register in order to enter his/her own data: 
   http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/app.html  The benefits being a 
   QTLdb curator are: (1) You can enter or update your data at any 
   time; (2) You may wish to keep your data "private" or "public"; 
   (3) You can take advantages of QTLdb's internal comparative viewer 
   to exam your data against other public data as a study tool. 

o The PigQTLdb has evolved into an "Animal QTLdb" which has its 
   preliminary release at http://www.animalgenome.org/QTLdb/. 
   This release contains more pig data, and with newly added cattle 
   and chicken data as well. 

o New features has been added to the GO Classifications Counter. Now 
   users can upload their own classifications as a counting guide, and 
   have options to count either single occurrences or all occurrences. 
   http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/tools/countgo/ 

o The NAGRP Bioinformatics FTP site has been moved from the old 
   http://db.genome.iastate.edu/ftp/share/ to a new location at 
   http://www.animalgenome.org/bioinfo/tools/share/ Now the content 
   is served through a HTTP server. 

o The number of registered members to the Animal Genome Research 
   Community Directory is nearly 1,000.  The members represent a 
   wide spectrum of different research fields, subject species, 
   working affiliations and countries/regions in the world. 
   URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/community/jout.html 

o A database is setup for the AquaGenomics community members to share 
   their publications.  Any registered member can upload their paper 
   to the archive and manage his/her own list of publications along 
   with the directory information. 
   URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/angenmap/aqua_pub.pl 

o Crittenden Poultry Genome References mailing list and archives are 
   moved to a new location. 
   URL: http://www.animalgenome.org/chickmap/poulst/ 

o See http://www.animalgenome.org/news/whatsnew.html for more updates 
   information on the site.