From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Oct 2 01:38:28 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F4917BB9 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:38:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC2F17BB4 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:38:22 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id E84CC17AAD; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:38:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC35E17AB6 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:40:36 +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 D558B17A98 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:40:31 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by hades.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA33851; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:40:22 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from news) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net Message-ID: <3D99B3C6.37C51356@egenetics.com> From: Liza Groenewald Reply-To: liza@egenetics.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: New Release of STACKdb - Free academic availability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: hades.is.co.za 1033483222 18846 196.38.142.108 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:38:20 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: a3919766ecc08a904d804022818b4c936059e6ec Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENT STACKdb v3.1 The STACKdb Human Gene Expression Index, provided free to academics, is now provided with a comprehensive full-length mRNA index and additional output reports containing potential alternate expression forms --------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest version of the STACK database of reconstructed human expressed transcripts, STACKdb v3.1, has been released by The South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), in collaboration with Electric Genetics. STACKdb v3.1 is an exhaustively processed set of transcripts based on all human EST and mRNA sequences from GB125.0, 24 August 2001, downloaded from NCBI as of 25 August 2001. 1,761,079 new EST and 87,085 new mRNA sequences have been added to the STACKdb v3.0 data to form 270,515 clusters and 5,711 clonelinks in total. The database is organized into 15 tissue-based categories and a disease category. This is the first STACKdb release that includes: - Alternate consensus sequences in FastA format that represent potential alternate expression forms. - A comprehensive full-length mRNA index consisting of all mRNA sequences within HTD, MGC and RefSeq as a preview to the next release of STACKdb. STACKdb v4.0 will consist of a whole body index with the mRNA index acting as a scaffold for the EST sequences. Please refer to the STACKdb v3.1 release notes for a list of all new features and improvements. AVAILABILITY The database is available free of charge to academic and non-profit institutions. To download STACKdb register at www.sanbi.ac.za/CODES. The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics collaborates with SANBI to serve STACKdb download from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics web site ensuring faster download times. The database may also be searched from 15 October 2002 on-line by comparing a query sequence to any of the STACKdb categories at http://juju.egenetics.com/cgi-bin/stackpack/blast.py CONTACT DETAILS Electric Genetics develops and maintains STACKdb v3.1 and provides technical support for both academic and commercial users. Your feedback is greatly valued and any comments, questions or suggestions can be sent to support@egenetics.com. For further information on STACKdb, please refer to the Electric Genetics website: www.egenetics.com/db.html For further information on research at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, please visit: http://www.sanbi.ac.za/Research.html .