NEWS

June 28, 2010

We experienced an exceptional hardware failure in our database server over the weekend, we moved to a backup system while we replace the failed hardware and have restored full system functional as of mid-day June 29th. We apologize for the inconvenience.

May 13, 2010

Fixed bug on orthologs page which was preventing mouseovers from displaying gene info.

May 3 , 2010

Due to a significant power upgrade affecting the entire Burnaby campus at Simon Fraser University, including all emergency power, www.burkholderia.com will have a scheduled shutdown from Friday, May 14 until Monday May 17th, 2010. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.

April 20, 2010

New feature for performing comparative analysis of orthologous genes. It can be used for tasks such as 1) finding orthologs present in two or more strains, 2) finding putative core genome for Burkholderia, 3) finding orthologs present in one set of strains that are absent from another set or 4) returning a list of genes from one strain that do not have orthologs in another strain.

An overview of this feature as well as instructions on how to use it is available here.

Genome summary pages now include links for downloading data and more detailed information including links to the NCBI Trace Archive as well as summaries of experiments from EBI ArrayExpress and NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus.

Gene cards now feature tabbed browsing for easier navigation (example).

Fixed bug in gene search that prevented non-coding genes (those without computationally predicted localizations) from being returned.

Updated the list of completed and incomplete genome sequencing projects in the list of Burkholderia genome grojects.

February 9, 2010

Fixed broken GBrowse links that were being generated from GBrowse start page and producing a "500 Internal Server Error".

February 1, 2010

3 new annotation updates.

New feature: DNA motif search tool to allow searching for DNA motifs in all strains available in this database. Results can be downloaded in both comma-separated value and tab-delimited format.

New batch download feature: Ability to download high-precision ortholog predictions from links in genome menu pages (e.g. Orthologs under "Download" tab of J2315 menu) as well as the main downloads page.

New analyses in GBrowse. Computationally-predicted Rho-independent terminators (TransTermHP) and palindromes (EMBOSS). Click here to view an example.

Fixed bug in updates log search that was preventing results from being returned.

Reference sections of gene summary pages now contain full literature citations (previously included just the PMID).