Newsletter
sent out

SACS newsletter sent out to subscribers and interested parties. Contained within the newsletter are:
     a survey to get user input on future directions
     a listing of enhancements made to the resource:
          VPN capabilities, email distribution list,
          network-accessible disk, single sign-on,
          and a poster printer.
     and a listing of changes/updates made to the resource

Mission Bay

SACS offices have been moved to Mission Bay Campus, GH-N476A & GH-N453G.

EMBOSS package added

The EMBOSS package has been added to the SACS resource. EMBOSS is the software (all based on public domain tools) that replaces EGCG. Documentation for the package is online, by both a listing of individual programs and general topics. EMBOSS contains about 140 programs for various sequence analysis tasks.

PGA involvement

SACS is part of the Baygenomics consortium of research groups in the San Francisco Bay Area funded as part of NHLBI's Programs in Genomic Applications. Baygenomics is using gene-trap vectors to inactivate thousands of genes in mouse embryonic stem cells in order to study a variety of phenotypes relevant to cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. SACS provides bioinformatics expertise and is part of their education component.

PMT involvement

Since last April SACS has been part of UCSF's Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters (PMT) Project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant U01 GM61390). SACS's role as part of the Bioinformatics Core for the project is to provide bioinformationcs expertise.