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Welcome to dictyBase, your central resource for the biology and genomics of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

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  • Registration for the Dicty 2009 conference is now closed. Visit the website for more information.

  • We have an open position for a Biocurator at dictyBase. For more information, please look at the Job opportunities page.

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May 13, 2008
We are pleased to announce a new tool and data additions to dictyBase:
  • ID converter tool: Given a list of dictyBase IDs (DDB), Gene IDs (DDB_G) or UniProt IDs, this tool converts from one to another. The output comes in two flavours, text and excel formats. To kickstart, try out the example ID's from the hints section.

  • E.C. numbers: Our links to the Enzyme Commission now also include the actual EC numbers; see for example the purD gene page.

  • We have updated the genome sequence to add a contig that was previously unlocalized, DDB0215037, on the very 5' end of Chromosome 2. As a consequence, DDB0215037 has been replaced by DDB0302697. This was done last December. Note that we have now added 100 N (undefined) residues between this contig and DDB0232463, that used to be the first contig on Chromosome 2 and is now the second one. If you use our GFF3 files and the chromosomal sequence, please note that the coordinates of the genes have been updated accordingly.

May 11, 2009
The 2009 International Dictyostelium Conference will be held from August 23rd to August 28th, 2009, in Estes Park, Colorado, USA, organized by Alan Kimmel and Tian Jin. Visit the website for more information.

April 14, 2009
JBC recently published an article by Raquel Sussman, which describes in passing some of the early days of Dicty. Thanks to Rob Kay for bringing this to our attention.

April 6, 2009
We are pleased to announce the reopening of the Dicty Stock Center at Northwestern University and to introduce Marc Vincelli, who has joined the dictyBase team as the lab technician for the Stock Center. Use the links in the top bar under 'Stock Center' to view, order and submit strains. Thanks to everyone for your continued support - the Stock Center looks forward to serving you.

February 13, 2009
On February 11, 2008, Robin Williams, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London (Ph.D student position available), was one of ten British academic scientists invited to the European Parliament, in Brussels, to present research on reducing the use of animals used in research (Press release). He showed preliminary data identifying Dictyostelium as a potentially suitable model for use in a hierarchy of testing to identify new medicines causing an adverse emetic side effect (vomiting). Using Dictyostelium in this role would potentially reduce the number of animals used in testing new medicinal compounds while also reducing the number of different drugs taken up to final testing, often abandoned due to this common, adverse side effect.

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