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15-11-2006

CLC bio New Hardware Accelerator

Through innovative use of FPGA technology ClCbio have created the ‘Cube’. A hardware (USB port connection) unit which runs Smith Waterman up to 125 times faster than a 3 GHz desktop computer, and acceptably close to the speed of BLAST. Smith Waterman searches taking 14 hours on the desktop are thus reduced to around 7 minutes on the Cube.

This is a breakthrough for desktop-based bioinformatics, as it gives researchers the possibility of running BLAST-like searches of a significantly higher quality than before.

Our comparison between BLAST and Smith Waterman shows that running BLASTp with the default expectation value of 10 often results in only half as many hits as running a Smith Waterman search on the Cube. So by using the Cube instead of BLAST, you'll improve the quality of the data you're working with! read more..

16-10-2006

CLC bio Molegro Upgrade

New features in version 1.6:

• Biomolecule Generator using transformation information from PDB files
• Cropping Tool for removing non-relevant molecules and protein residues
• Cavities found using the built-in cavity finder can now be stored in the workspace format (MVDML files)
• New dialog for customizing the visual appearance (changing visualization schemes, light settings, and perspective projection)

07-09-2006

CLC bio New Case Study

Bioinformatics have developed rapidly during the past 5 to 10 years - here we take a look at how CLC Combined Workbench can help in discovering the secrets of the nature of malaria. read more..

04-09-2006

AbOrygen BiOpen Dashboard Widgets

New free BLAST widgets are available for your Mac OS X Dashboard read more..

1-09-2006

Molegro releases Molegro Virtual Docker version 1.5.0

Molegro Virtual Docker handles all aspects of the docking process from preparation of the molecules to determination of the potential binding sites of the target protein, and prediction of the binding modes of the ligands. Molegro Virtual Docker offers high-quality docking based on a novel optimization technique combined with a user interface experience focusing on usability and productivity. read more..

• Grid-based version of the MolDock scoring function (4-5 times speedup)
• New MolDock SE (simplex evolution) search algorithm (technology preview)
• Workspace Finder (for easy browsing and inspection of molecular structures)
• Sequence Viewer
• Cartoon rendering (secondary structure visualization)
• Faster wireframe visualization
• New RMSD measure that takes any potential symmetries into account

28-08-06

Chenomx Metabolite Identification and Quantification

Chenomx has years of experience applying Chenomx NMR Suite to challenging and novel metabolomics experiments - leverage this expertise and have us identify and quantify metabolites in your NMR spectra. read more..