The Bioinformationista

Well, I have had to move my blogging efforts to a different blog, and so will consider this my final post. Visit our collective work at the Taubman Health Sciences Library News Blog at http://thlibrary.wordpress.com/. It’s been fun! Thanks for listening to me while I was on my soapbox(es)!

Long time no post!  NCBI has announced its new release of CDART, Conserved Domain Architecture Retrieval Tool with enhanced features such as: improved performance for long query proteins expanded input options: protein sequence, set of conserved domains display of similarity scores filtering of resu

The Taubman Health Sciences Library and the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) are offering a remote Cytoscape training class via Adobe Connect.  Cytoscape is an open source molecular interactions visualization tool. Date: Monday, September 12, 2011 Time: 10:00am-11:00am

Provost Phil Hanlon announced the University of Michigan’s support to expand postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the social, behavioral and economics fields.  Applications are currently being accepted and more information is available at the Un

Science Magazine reported that Randy Schekman will be the new editor-in-chief of a new open access journal slated to be released next year by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Wellcome Trust, and the Max Planck Society.  Read the full news item here (at the bottom of the news page)!  Read an

The North Campus Research Complex is hosting a Biointerfaces Symposium on Friday, May 20th through Saturday, May 21st. The Biointerfaces Symposium is meant to foster academic and entrepreneurial partnerships and features speakers in business, law, public policy and more.  The symposium will be held

A presentation and hands on training session on the GeneGo/Thomson Reuters pathway analysis tool MetaCore will be held on Wednesday, April 27.  MetaCore™ is an integrated knowledge database and software suite for pathway analysis of experimental data and gene lists. Where:  University of Michigan Se

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) celebrates its 175th anniversary this year.  One of the outstanding creations of our government and our nation, the library is one of the reasons that I am a medical librarian because I am not sure my profession would be what it is today without NLM in its hist

NCBI announced its plans to discontinue their Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Trace Archive repositories for high-throughput sequence data as well as their Peptidome Respository.  According to their news announcement, they will phase out submissions but also make the Peptidome data available from th