From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Tue Jan 16 20:25:30 2001 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id D5BDE17B31; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id 9E63E17B30; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:25:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 1DE6817AD2; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:00:11 +0000 (GMT) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: acs@ncgr.org ("Adam C. Siepel") Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: announcement of bioinformatics software release Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: <14947.14949.860158.22233@gargle.gargle.HOWL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id B6CC917A88; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:00:07 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from madison.ncgr.org (ncgr.ncgr.org [216.161.34.2]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18F44163C for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:59:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from djikstra.ncgr.org (djikstra [172.19.68.158]) by madison.ncgr.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20657 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:59:03 -0700 (MST) X-Received: (from acs@localhost) by djikstra.ncgr.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.0) id KAA28839; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:59:02 -0700 (MST) X-To: bionews@net.bio.net X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 3) "Acadia" XEmacs Lucid Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:25:26 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Moderator of newsgroup: Would you be so kind as to distribute this announcement? Thanks, Adam Siepel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) is happy to announce an updated version of the Developers' Release of ISYS, a platform for the integration of heterogeneous bioinformatics resources. This release of ISYS is freely available on our website at http://www.ncgr.org/research/isys. It includes transparent access to the NCBI's Entrez and BLAST servers, as well as refined versions of NCGR's Sequence Viewer, Similarity Searcher, and Table Viewer. In addition, versions of the maxdView gene expression viewer (http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/microarray) and BDGP Gene Ontology Browser (http://www.fruitfly.org) that have been wrapped for use with ISYS are also available for download (our thanks to David Hancock of Machester Bioinformatics and John Ritcher of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project for their permission to wrap these tools). Although it is officially an update to the Developers' Release of last summer, this version of ISYS has sufficient functionality that it may be of interest to non-software-developers as well. We have provided a description of a "walk-through" of ISYS at http://www.ncgr.org/research/isys/scenario.html that you can use to guide you through a short demonstration of the system (including new features made possible with maxdView and the BDGP GO Browser). Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in developing to the platform. In fact, we're lagging behind the new release with updates to our example code and developers' manual, so please do contact us for the latest information. Adam Siepel NCGR --- .