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Year 2003

December 28, 2003: RGD released a new web site with many enhanced navigation features, visit the new RGD now.

August 5-6, 2003: Workshop in Physiological Genomics of Consomic Rats
The focus of this workshop is to provide an overview of our physiological genomics approach for analyzing rat genetic, genomic, and physiological data. The goal is to provide investigators with a toolset of data, bioinformatic tools, and background to be able to utilize the consomic animals generated by PhysGen for their own studies in heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders. Program consists of both seminars and hands-on training on how to use the PhysGen resources.
Deadline is approaching. Please register by July 10, 2003.

July 6 - 11, 2003: The XIX International Congress of Genetics
The International Congress of Genetics is held just once every five years. In July 2003 the XIX International Congress of Genetics will be held in Melbourne, Australia.
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June 29 - July 3, 2003: The 11th International Conference on ISMB 2003
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to present the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2003), to be held from 29 June - 3 July 2003 in Brisbane, Australia.
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May 26 - June 7, 2003: The West African Biotechnology Workshops (WABW) and University of Ibandan, Nigeria, has invited Charles Wang, Ph.D. scientist of the Bioinformatics Program to present a seminar on " Rat Genome Database - Mapping Diseases onto the Genome", and to serve as a faculty member at the West African Bioinformatics Training Courses at University of Ibandan, Ibanada, Nigeria, May 26 - June 7, 2003.
Charles will teach in several lectures on sequence analysis and data mining on Bioinformatics. WABW aims to foster necessary interactions between and among relevant local scientists and their international counterparts for education, training and developments in the emerging fields of biotechnology and bioinformatics.

May 19, 2003: Bioinformatics Program Event Day.
Bioinformatics Program will hold an Event Day at 12:30 to 4:30 PM on Monday, May 19, in the MCW Alumni Center. This special event is being held to showcase some of the Bioinformatics Program's most important and successful projects. You will gain insight into Bioinformatics, learn how Bioinformatics Program can add value to biomedical research and hear Bioinformatics success stories. Click for more details.

March 17-20, 2003: Peter Tonellato, Director of the Bioinformatics Research Center and Mary Shimoyama, Data Development and Management Group Manager took part in the H-Invitational Disease Edition strategy meeting March 17 – 20 in Odaiba, Japan. Building on the success of the human full-length cDNA annotation Jamboree held in August 2002, the Disease Edition will focus on annotating cDNAs for disease relationships and creating a disease gene catalogue. As members of the planning committee, Dr. Tonellato and Ms. Shimoyama are lending expertise and experience gained from the Rat Genome Database’s Disease Oriented Research Resource Project. The H-Invitational Disease Edition will include cross-species analyses that will enhance the data provided through the disease portals planned for the DORR project. Because of the bioinformatics expertise and experience in disease gene annotation, Dr. Tonellato, Mary Shimoyama and other Bioinformatics Program members will spearhead a number of core efforts for the H-Invitational Disease Edition Jamboree planned for August 2003.

March 12, 2003: RGD releases The Pied Piper, the newsletter for the Rat community.

March 3, 2003: Annotations of Genes, EST's and SSLP's are now available: Announcing a new Annotated Rat Genome release at Ensembl. V11.21 is built around Version 2 of the assembly from the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium and has 21,276 genes containing 28,904 transcripts.Links from Ensembl to the RGD markers used in the annotation are provided. In addition, new comparative data for rat is provided as well as mapping of eight Affymetrix chipsets across human, mouse and rat genes.

January 18, 2003. RGD New VCMap Version 2.0 is released: This new VCMap Version 2.0 has updated datasets for various markers in addition to a new and versatile interactive feature. Users can now generate dynamic maps from MapView (Dynamic) option to define and manipulate the comparative map displays.

Year 2002

December 28, 2002: MCW Center for Proteomics website online
This public website supporting the MCW Proteomics Center was opened to the public, and hosted by Bioinformatics Program.
URL: http://proteomics.mcw.edu.

December 5, 2002: Mouse Genome Sequence and Analysis
The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium (MGSC) presents the complete "initial sequence and analysis of the mouse genome" in the [December 5 2002 edition] of Nature journal.

December 5, 2002: Chicago Tribune interviewed with Peter Tonellato PhD.
"The genome of the second most important laboratory animal, the rat, is expected to be published in a few months, said Peter Tonellato of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Rats are used to study multi-gene diseases and to test new drugs for toxicity before they are given to human subjects."
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November 25, 2002: Rat Genome Assembly
The Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium (RGSC) is pleased to announce the assembly of the DNA sequence of the laboratory rat. The draft sequence will be available at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center site. The Bioinformatic Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin hosts the major rat data resource, the Rat Genome Database (RGD).
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October 25, 2002: The MCW became one of the ten new NHLBI Proteomics Centers
The Proteomics Center at MCW will develop mass spectrometric methodologies and technology for the quantitative analysis of the entire proteome of a single cell. As a part of this center, the Bioinformatics Program, bioinformatics component, will concentrate on data management and warehousing and novel data analysis and data mining algorithms.
For more details see: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/new/press/02-10-09.htm.

October 8 - 11, 2002: RGD represented at Japan Rat Workshop and Several Japan Genetic Institutes
The RGD had several presentations at the XIVth Workshop of Genetic Systems in the Rat in Kyoto, Japan held October 8th - 11th, 2002. The conference was a major success with presentations given by researchers from around the world. The Bioinformatics Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin and RGD participants included Simon Twigger, Susan Bromberg, Dean Pasko, and Milton Datta. RGD also visited several genetic research institutions in Japan to develop collaborations that will offer RGD users additional data. These included the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) which hosts RGD’s mirror web site (http://rat.lab.nig.ac.jp). A RGD presentation was given at Kyoto University at the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). RGD is developing a collaboration with KEGG in order to integrate their annotations into RGD. Also a visit was made to the Japan Biological Information Research Center (JBIRC) which hosted the H-Invitational to annotate human full-length cDNAs. RGD and Bioinformatics Program members participated in this event. The collaborations with researchers at JBIRC can benefit the rat research community by RGD building on the skills and techniques developed at JBIRC and the H-Invitational.
Refer to the home page of the XIVth Workshop.

September 27 - 29, 2002: The IV Annual NCRR Bioinformatics Conference
The IV Annual NCRR Bioinformatics Conference is held at Boston on September 27 -29, 2002. The topic of this conference is "Microarry Science in Clinical Genetics Research". The Bioinformatics Program members host the workshop of the conference to present data and information source and tool integration and knowledge development, and present posters in the poster session.

The Bioinformatics Program members are major contributors to Human International Gene Annotation Jamboree:
A year long collaboration between members of the international human genome research community culminated in a ten-day gene annotation "jamboree" in Tokyo in August 25th - Sept 5th, 2002. This was the first large-scale annotation activity conducted on the entire collection of human cDNA's.
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Seminar in Bioinformatics and Genomics for Fall 2002:
Seminars are held Fridays, 3:30 - 4:30 PM. They are 50 minutes seminars with time for questions and followed by a short reception. The seminars will be held in the Kerrigan Auditorium (Medical Education Building).
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Year 2001

Bioinformatics Graduate Program (Fall, 2001)
A joint graduate program in Bioinformatics (BIIN) by joining the disciplinary strengths found in the department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Bio and Electrical Engineering at Marquette University in conjunction with the Bioinformatic and Biomedical Research conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Further information, Visit this web page.

Annoucement (Aug. 26, 2001)
Peter Tonellato and Andy Greene would like to invite you to consider attending the 34th IUPS Congress, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-31, 2001.

Microarray Science Seminar Series (Summer, 2001)
The MCW's Bioinformatics Program is hosting a semester long series on Microarray Science. The seminar series has been organized in response to requests from the local scientific community for information about how to incorporate this exciting technology into current and future research programs. Topics from these two series (one on Microarray Technology and one on Microarray Data Analysis) will be discussed on alternate Tuesdays. For more information, please visit this web site.
 

Year 2000

The Bioinformatics Program Open House (Nov. 03, 2000)
The Bioinformatics Research Center Open House was success on November 3, 2000, in 4th floor of Medical Education Building.

MCW chosen for genome work Federal program includes $13.3 million grant
(Oct. 24, 2000)
The Medical College of Wisconsin will help front a major new federal research program to build on the work of the human genome project.
For more details, click here.

The Bioinformatics Program Presents: A Bioinformatics Symposium (8/24--08/25/2000)
The Bioinformatics Research Center is hosting a day of lectures and discussion on emerging trends in Bioinformatics.

The Bioinformatics Program Moves to New Office Space (Medical Education Building) (07/27/2000)

Rat Genome Database 1.0 (06/01/2000)
Rat Genome Database was released for public review and useage on June 1, 2000 with a variety of new user functions, a greater depth of data, and a wealth of integrated querying reports.
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