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May 14, 2013

The website for the Dicty 2013 Conference is now available. Registration will open soon.

May 3, 2013

We are preparing for the Dicty Stock Center grant renewal and thought it useful to get your input on a few questions. To this end we created a short survey that should take just 5 to 10 minutes of your time and the survey can be accessed here. Thank you for participating!

April 15, 2013

A note to all users who have recently experienced difficulties with the Restriction site feature for the new Genome Browser. The problem has been solved, thanks to information provided to us by Jonathan Chubb. We also provide here detailed instructions for set-up of this feature for anyone continuing to have problems. As always, please let us know if you need further help.

March 28, 2013

We are happy to announce that we have upgraded the Genome Browser of D. discoideum. Thanks to Gad Shaulsky and Adrian Tsang and their colleagues, this update includes many different RNAseq tracks. Another set of new tracks are TBLASTN alignments of three species: D. purpureum, D. fasciculatum, and P. pallidum. All species are accessible from within the Browser. Select your tracks by clicking on the tab on top and by chosing the desired data.

March 11, 2013

La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, will support annual 2-month visits by collaborators over a period of up to 3 years. The applications are competitive and only 2 will be awarded per year, so very strong track records ("best in field") are needed for an application to be successful. Contact Paul Fisher directly to collaborate on Dicty as a model for mitochondrial, lysosomal and neurodegenerative diseases. Download the full description.

February 21, 2013

We are pleased to announce that we updated our manual (IDA, IMP, IGI, ISS etc.) and electronic (IEA) Gene Ontology annotations in dictyBase. dictyBase will now show a large number of new annotations that have been made during the past year. From now on, updates will be released monthly and will be available on gene pages, from our download page and from the GO consortium. Check out some genes with recent GO annotations: aip1, srr, ndm. Click on the table headers to sort the list.

January 11, 2013

The Dicty 2012 pictures are finally online as well as the Dicty 2011 pictures. Thanks for sharing everyone. If you have additional pictures to either event, feel free to send them to us.

January 10, 2013

We now display phylogenetic trees of several Dictyostelids on the D. fasciculatum, D. purpureum, and P. pallidum front pages. Pauline Schaap and Gernot Glöckner kindly generated and provided the phylogenies.

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