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June 7, 2010

April 16, 2010

In collaboration with Thomas Winckler we now have 471 transposable elements annotated with gene products and descriptions. We also added _RTE and _TE extensions to the gene IDs of retrotransposons and putative DNA transposons, respectively, for easy identification and querying. Have a look at the following examples: DDB_G0277713, DDB_G0291964, DDB_G0267366, DDB_G0294384, DDB_G0270456.

March 31, 2010

We have updated our Mutant Phenotype Download tables to separate terms with pipes instead of the more ubiquitous commas, and we replaced the first column to represent the Strain Systematic Name instead of the Strain ID (these are identical if no Systematic Name is available)

March 29, 2010

We are pleased to announce several new features and data additions to dictyBase

• Interface updates:
  • dictyBase now has a consistent interface throughout the website
  • Updated top menu: links to main resources are grouped into categories. Use the Site Map as a quick reference
  • New pictures and videos are available in the Explore > Pictures/Videos section
• Gene Page updates
  • The Strains and Phenotypes section now contains a list of associated plasmids, e.g. abpC
  • Updated automated gene products based on orthology with human, yeast, and E. coli, e.g. DDB_G0293718
  • Updated Inparanoid links to match Inparanoid Version 7.0 from June 2009
• Plasmids display updates
  • The plasmid details page now contains a link to related gene(s), e.g. pDV-NTAP-CYFP

February 5, 2010

We are pleased to announce that the D. purpureum web portal is now available!

• Access the D. purpureum unassembled contigs via a main page that contains links to the Genome Browser.
• The D. purpureum Genome Browser contains tracks of D. discoideum blast hits that link directly to the dictyBase gene page.
• The BLAST server is now universal, meaning databases from all available genomes are accessible from one and the same page.
• Download D. purpureum sequences and data.
• Search the D. purpureum database for gene IDs (DPU_G0051556), sequence IDs (DPU0052289), or JGI protein IDs (146844).
• Direct access to the D. purpureum database is provided by a link on the dictyBase front page or or from the blue menu top bar under 'Links'.
• For D. discoideum, we added dictyExpress RNAseq links under the Expression section, see an example on the mdhA gene page.

January 22, 2010 There is a nice article about John Bonner, the 'sultan of slime', including a beautiful video. January 20, 2010 We are now adding all deleted, added, or changed gene models to twitter, as soon as they are curated. November 6, 2009 The Franke Dictyostelium Literature database has been updated. Release 18 contains 9455 references. We are very grateful to Jakob Franke for providing this update.

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