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MICW - High-performance Computing: Narayan Desai

submitted by: JGI
Argonne National Lab's Narayan Desai on "Scaling MG-RAST to Terabases" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

MICW - Scalability of Comparative Analysis, Novel Algorithms and Tools: Paramvir Dehal

submitted by: JGI
Berkeley Lab's Paramvir Dehal on "Managing and Storing large Datasets in MicrobesOnline, metaMicrobesOnline and the DOE Knowledgebase" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

MICW - Assembly Quality Evaluation: Mihai Pop

submitted by: JGI
University of Maryland's Mihai Pop on "Genome Assembly Forensics: Metrics for Assessing Assembly Correctness" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

MICW - Metagenome-specific Assembly: Jared Simpson

submitted by: JGI
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's Jared Simpson on "Memory efficient sequence analysis using compressed data structures" at the Metagenomics Informatics Challenges Workshop held at the DOE JGI on October 12-13, 2011.

Video Tip of the Week: BioMart's new central portal

submitted by: OpenHelix
BioMart has a new look, and new features. More details and links: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=10275

Kathy Yelick at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting

submitted by: JGI
Kathy Yelick of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center on "Hardware and Software Trends in Computational Systems for Biology" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

YeastMine: Saving Search Results as a List

submitted by: yeastgenome
Describes how to save some or all of the search results from a YeastMine query into a list.

Characterizing Protein Structures by Surface Mapping

submitted by: icamvid
Elaine Thompson gives a talk at the RPP08 conference about protein surface mapping: 1) Methods: Finding pockets on crystallographic structures with FADE and Crevasse Software 2) PKA Examples 3) Results on a Series of Kinases 4) Conclusions: Pocket

Tip of the Week: Scivee

submitted by: OpenHelix
A quick video tip on uploading here at SciVee. More at http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=8482

Jim Bristow at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting

submitted by: JGI
DOE JGI Deputy Director Jim Bristow on the Community Sequencing Program at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting on March 23, 2011.
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