A burst of new work from the lab is available over on our publications page. Summaries and backstories for three of these manuscripts, below the fold:
The NIH National Human Genome Research Instituteis going through a process of making plans for the next five years of research in genomics, including computational genomics. In the past couple of months I've been at two planning meetings - the Cloud Computing workshop (31 March - 1 April) and most recently …
Alex's acceptance speech for the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Life Sciences is now online at SciVee.tv. The fearless leader of Xfam, grounded by a piddly wee volcanic ash cloud and forced to videoconference to his adoring public. Meanwhile, I'm supposed to schlep over to Cambridge for the …
Our quest is at an end.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Four years in development, and a year in testing: HMMER3 has reached its first public production release. Do we have time for a beer and a small celebration before we write the manuscripts and move straight on to …
My relationship with email is fraught. On the one hand, it ravages my time and concentration; on the other hand, it's better than the damned phone.
I get too much email to answer, and that makes me feel guilty. Would it help to post a general disclaimer? Often I think …
The czar of Rfam in Cambridge UK, Paul Gardner, is advertising for a new co-czar. Jennifer Daub is off to New Zealand, which is great for Jen, but what will Rfam do without her? It's a great opportunity to bring more order to the world of noncoding RNAs, for someone …
In a world where "a few days" means a month; in a world where "HMMER3 is ready" means another release candidate: ta-da! A release candidate!
HMMER3 release candidate two is available for download as a source code tarball. Over at hmmer.org, there are also links for downloading tarballs including …
Denis Schmidt (University of Frankfurt) has reported a critical bug against hmmalign in 3.0rc1.
Any time there is an alignment column consisting of all deletions, the code is supposed to remove the alignment column altogether; instead, it overwrites the previous alignment column with an all-delete column, which most likely …
After a year of alpha and beta testing, HMMER3 is ready. Release candidate 1 is available for download as a tarball. It includes precompiled binaries for Intel/Linux systems, both 64-bit (x86_84) and 32-bit (ia32) platforms, and you may just copy these into some directory in your \$PATH if you …
Francis Collins became Director of the NIH in August. Eric Green has now accepted Francis's previous position of Director of the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). That means Eric's position, Scientific Director of the intramural NHGRI research program, is now open. A search committee is forming, and I'm …