EMBnet News bulletin of 8-Jan-2003
Laurent Falquet
Laurent.Falquet at isrec.unil.ch
Wed Jan 8 15:29:28 CET 2003
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* EMBnet News bulletin of 8-Jan-2003 *
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Opening of the course registration
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Dear Users,
The registration for the course "Introduction to Bioinformatics" is now open,
you can register on this web site:
http://www.3eme-cycle.ch/pages/registration_generic.html
This course will be held from March 3 to 7, 2003 at EPFL, it is
targeted to students
in biology or biochemistry who want to know what kind of data and
software tools
are available on the web for the scientific community and how to use
them adequately.
The aim of this course is to familiarize graduate students with:
* basic computer concepts and their everyday use in a biological
laboratory setting.
* the structure of molecular sequence databases and the methods to
analyse their contents.
* some of the biological resources available on the Internet and
their usefulness (or lack thereof).
* a sound introduction to the possibilities and limitations of
computer-assisted genome analysis.
* the resources available through the Swiss EMBnet node, and to
train them in their usage.
More information here:
http://www.ch.embnet.org/CoursEMBnet/Pages03/Introduction.html
We will close the registration on January 31, 2002 or earlier if the
maximal number of 40 participants is reached.
The registration for the 1st edition of our "Phylogeny using
bioinformatics tools" course
is also open at the same address. This course is scheduled for
September 1-5, 2003.
More information will be available later.
We will close the registration on July 1, 2003 or earlier if the
maximal number of 25 participants is reached.
These courses are organised jointly by the Swiss node of EMBnet and by the
"3eme Cycle Romand en Sciences Biologiques".
http://www.ch.embnet.org
http://www.3eme-cycle.ch
New EMBnet team members:
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In addition to Dr. Claude Bonnard and myself (Dr. Laurent Falquet) the Swiss
EMBnet node team was expanded by two new members last December. They are both
responsible for the organisation of courses and members of the helpdesk.
So don't hesitate to contact them if you have any bioinformatics question!
Dr. Lorenza Bordoli
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Biozentrum der Universität Basel Phone: +41 (61) 2671580
Klingelbergstr 50-70 Fax: +41 (61) 2671584
CH - 4056 Basel, Switzerland Email: Lorenza.Bordoli at unibas.ch
http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/schwede/
and
Dr. Vassilios Ioannidis
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Ch. des Boveresses 155 Phone: +41 (21) 692 5954
CH-1066 Epalinges Fax: +41 (21) 692 5945
Switzerland Email:
Vassilios.Ioannidis at isb-sib.ch
http://www.ch.embnet.org http://www.isb-sib.ch
EMBL 73 available
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EMBL release 73 is now available on our servers.
The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database was frozen to make Release 73 on
29-NOV-2002. The release contains 20,857,746 sequence entries comprising
27,903,283,528 nucleotides. This represents an increase of about 20% over
Release 72. A breakdown of Release 73 by division is shown below:
Division Entries Nucleotides
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Constructed 146 451,710,729
ESTs 14,278,034 7,122,871,284
Fungi 69,690 110,593,809
GSSs 4,181,290 2,343,305,324
HTC 41,184 52,445,825
HTG 63,671 10,664,843,325
Human 233,004 3,725,671,508
Invertebrates 108,405 590,984,276
Other Mammals 42,976 70,886,183
Mus musculus 63,784 792,364,491
Organelles 173,371 143,776,002
Patents 899,597 470,683,009
Bacteriophage 2,239 7,141,342
Plants 134,576 479,339,789
Prokaryotes 166,584 512,495,745
Rodents 23,789 37,005,931
STSs 156,147 66,054,417
Synthetic 7,059 13,434,531
Unclassified 1,500 2,487,640
Viruses 170,355 151,858,111
Other Vertebrates 40,345 93,330,257
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Total 20,857,746 27,903,283,528
1.1 27.9 Billion Nucleotides
When freezing data for this release, the number of nucleotides in the
database had nearly reached the 28 billion mark. EMBL database statistics
are available at URL: http://www3.ebi.ac.uk/Services/DBStats/
Happy New Year and Best Wishes,
Laurent Falquet, Swiss EMBnet node manager
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