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| Oct 08, 2009 |
Widespread News coverage of Breast Cancer discovery published in Nature.Marco Marra, director of the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, was interviewed on CBC, Global TV and CTV. Additionally, many newspapers around the world reported this major advance in cancer research. The study published in Nature was funded by the BC Cancer Foundation; Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon region; Canadian Institutes for Health Research; Genome Canada; Genome BC; the Canada Foundation for Innovation; the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; and the National Cancer Institute, USA. |
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| Jun 03, 2009 |
Genome Science and Technology ProgramGenome Science and Technology Program for UBC Grad Students. |
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| Oct 10, 2008 |
New Epigenomics InitiativeBC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre plays a key role in an NIH-funded, multi-centre epigenomics project. |
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| Feb 19, 2007 |
Regulatory module update in human and mouse cisRED databasescisRED’s human 8.1 and mouse 2.1 databases offer two updates: extended regulatory module predictions, and a genome browser display for each search region. |
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| Nov 07, 2006 |
ORegAnno adds UCSC genome browser trackOfficial UCSC genome browser track added for human records. Support for other species to follow. |
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| Jul 07, 2006 |
ORegAnno hits 3000 recordsThe ORegAnno community ( www.oreganno.org ) recently curated its 500th unique publication. The database now represents over 3,000 experimentally proven regulatory sequences and polymorphisms. This dataset is open access and freely available to the public. |
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| Jan 16, 2006 |
FASSI 0.1 releasedThe fingerprint and assembly incorporation software (FASSI) has been released. This stand-alone application calculates BAC end length constraints from clone fingerprint map contigs created by the FPC package. These constraints are used to promote the linkage and guide the arrangement of sequence contigs during the whole-genome shotgun sequence assembly process. |
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| Oct 25, 2005 |
cisRED database paper accepted for publication in NARA manuscript describing the cisRED regulatory element discovery system and database has been accepted for publication in the January 2006 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research. |
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| Oct 14, 2005 |
Open Regulatory Annotation Database ReleasedThe Open REGulatory ANNOtation database (ORegAnno) is an open database for the curation of known regulatory elements from scientific literature. Visit it at www.oreganno.org |
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| Apr 21, 2005 |
First multi-species build of regulatory element database availableThe cisRED database of computationally predicted regulatory elements has been updated to include an initial pilot set of predictions for 244 mouse genes, as well as v1.1b of human regulatory element predictions, which has been expanded to ~7K genes. |
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| Apr 18, 2005 |
Signs of AgingBC Cancer Agency Scientist evaluate genes associated with longevity. |
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| Dec 17, 2004 |
Human regulatory element database releasedThe cisRED database of computationally predicted regulatory elements has been updated to include an initial pilot set of predictions for 244 mouse genes, as well as v1.1b of human regulatory element predictions, which has been expanded to ~7K genes. |
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| Nov 08, 2004 |
OSCAR 4.0 ReleasedThe Genome Sciences Centre, in collaboration with the OSCAR working group, is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit, version 4.0. |
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| May 21, 2004 |
Sockeye 1.2 ReleasedSockeye has reached 1.2 status. The latest version of the 3D genome visualisation software is now available for Linux, Windows and Solaris. This software was produced by the Gene Regulation (Informatics) group and is funded by Genome Canada . The new release now contains the ability to dynamically generate primer predictions using the Primer3 program. Details of this feature can be found here . |
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| May 12, 2004 |
DiscoverySpace 3.2.1 update adds SAGE tag mappingThe new CMOST (Comprehensive Mapping of SAGE Tags) plug-in is based on a sophisticated algorithm that improves the assignment of SAGE results to their likely transcripts by mapping up to 90% of the experimental tags. In addition, the new release contains an improved GO Browser and a reworked 2D Expression Viewer. |
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| Apr 29, 2004 |
Chinook HonouredChinook has been awarded the 2004 BCNet "Best Overall Application Award" in the "Coolest Application" competition at the 4th Annual BCNet 2004 Conference. The award was made to Stephen Montgomery, lead developer. Chinook is a peer-to-peer (P2P) bioinformatics service. The goal of the Chinook platform is to facilitate exchange of analysis techniques within a local community and/or worldwide. Chinook operates by turning command-line applications into services which are broadcast over a virtual network. Currently, there are over 10 analysis services that have been made "Chinook-ready". These range from alignment to regulation prediction algorithms. Furthermore, Chinook is designed to make it extremely easy to add new services. This is facilitated using XML. |
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| Apr 19, 2004 |
GSC Bioinformatics platform is movingAll computer services provided by the Genome Sciences Centre will be down from 6 pm Thursday, April 22nd until approximately 9 am Monday, April 26th. This includes the GSC web site, collaborator access to web and ftp data, and access to all services (e.g. DiscoverySpace). |
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| Mar 08, 2004 |
Sockeye 1.2 Beta ReleasedSockeye has reached 1.2 beta status. The latest version of the 3D genome visualisation software is now available for Linux, Windows and Solaris. See here for more details about this Genome Canada funded project. The new release now contains the ability to dynamically generate primer predictions using the Primer3 program. Details of this feature can be found here . |
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| Mar 03, 2004 |
Draft genome sequence for the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans variety gattii releasedThe Genome Sciences Centre in collaboration with Jim Kronstad in the Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia has released a draft sequence of the genome of strain WM276 of the fungal pathogen C. neoformans. The publically available data were collected with funding from Genome Canada through Genome BC. |
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| Jan 26, 2004 |
Sockeye 1.1 ReleasedSockeye has reached 1.1 status. The latest version of the 3D genome visualisation software is now available for Linux and Windows. Solaris and Mac OS X versions will be available soon. See here for more details about this Genome Canada funded project. The new release now contains features to allow the easy graphical representation of DNA sequence alignments between related genes. more >> |
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