From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Aug 5 01:42:23 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 6415517B2B; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:42:22 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id 0E46517B2A; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:42:20 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 7EC4D17AFD; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:33:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from hades.is.co.za (hades.is.co.za [196.4.160.43]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3692E415DE for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:33:03 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by hades.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA50630; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:32:56 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from news) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net Message-ID: <398AD517.3D11D9D4@sanbi.ac.za> From: Win Hide Reply-To: winhide@sanbi.ac.za Organization: SANBI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: STACK2.4 released, Now distributed from Europe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: fling.sanbi.ac.za!unknown@yebo.sanbi.ac.za X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Trace: hades.is.co.za 965399576 230 196.38.142.119 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:42:20 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk The S.A. National Bioinformatics Institute (European Molecular Biology Network, South African Node) has released version 2.4 of the STACK database of reconstructed human expressed transcripts. STACKdb has a high capture rate of alternate expression variants, contains tissue based and disease state organisation. STACKdb 2.4 contains 242,171 new human EST sequences, which have been added to the clusters found in STACKdb 2.31. The whole-body index (available 8 August) has been created by adding 32,000 mRNAs and ESTs from Unigene build 106 to the whole-body index from STACKdb 2.31. The cluster annotation has been improved through the addition of mapping information from genemap'99 radiation hybrid markers and provision of detailed source libraries. The system used for production of STACKdb, STACK_PACK2.0 is also available. In collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (the Swiss Node of the European Molecular Biology Network), the database is available for download from a computer in Europe, ensuring speedy download times from Europe, Japan and the USA. Interested users should register at www.sanbi.ac.za/CODES for download. STACKdb is managed and distributed by Electric Genetics. Please contact support@egenetics.com for support, feedback and bug reporting. .