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From zhuiastate.edu  Mon May 15 16:40:14 2006
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:40:20 -0500
From: Zhiliang Hu <zhuiastate.edu>
Subject: What's new on the NAGRP animal genome web site (#2,
       2006)
To: Multiple Recipients of <angenmapanimalgenome.org>

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/...oinfo/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/...ioinfo/projects/ATO/
   Those who are interested in joining ATO development activities
   please contact: bioinfo-teamanimalgenome.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/...angenmap/aqua_dir.pl
   (Users are encouraged to voice out if you wish to have this
    feature available to the general or specific community).