Project News

[kashi]

What's new?

SIMAP facilitates eggNOG. Genome comparisons are a very powerful and versatile tool in modern molecular biology, as thousands of genomes have been sequenced during the last years. If protein sequences serve as items in comparative genomes, they are typically organized into orthologous groups of evolutionary directly related proteins. Calculations of such groups are very demanding and rely on large-scale sequence similarity data. One of the largest and most prominent databases of orthologous groups is eggNOG. The latest version 3.0 of eggNOG is based on protein similarity data from SIMAP. Our data has replaced time-consuming BLAST searches and provides an increased sensitivity compared to BLAST. We will be happy to continue the fruitful collaboration between eggNOG and SIMAP – which is a typical example how SIMAP facilitates modern biological research. A paper describing eggNOG 3.0 has been published in the 2012 Database Issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research (Fulltext).

If you check out eggNOG and wish to view proteins in tree format then you can go to Interactive Tree Of Life (ITOL) which is an online tool for the display and manipulation of phylogenetic trees. It provides most of the features available in other tree viewers, and offers a novel circular tree layout, which makes it easy to visualize mid-sized trees (up to several thousand leaves).

I hadn't seen this on the SIMAP webpage before, just thought some may be interested. It has helped motivate me to do some more SIMAP crunching when work is available in a few days. Badges add some interest and incentive, but not all good projects have badges.;D

[Dingo]

Simap has work at the moment for those that like that project   http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/server_status.php

[WikiWill]

Simap has work at the moment for those that like that project   http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/server_status.php

I'm all over it like brandy syrup on figs!

[JugNut]

Me too.. (But without the figs)  ;D

[tazzduke]

Sorry but overloaded with other work at the moment, will give this batch a miss.  Maybe the next SIMAP batch we can do a mini aa is 7 day run.

Regards
Tazzduke

[WikiWill]

Hi SIMAP team, the next batch of work is being prepared for release this afternoon (0600 UTC approx) and should last a week.

We're currently ranked 21st. All help gratefully received in our assault on the Dutch Power Cows 

[Dingo]

Always ready for Simap I have it set to 1000% so it should get and run most times there is work.

[JugNut]

I'll be on it like white on rice. 

Thanks 4 the heads up W.W.

[Scott T]

Similar to Dingo, I've got Simap (and LHC) set to a much higher priority than everything else so should crunch a fair slab as well - hoping enough to break a milestone this month around :)

[LawryB]

On it tomorrow

[JugNut]

Mid month SIMAP's get em' while there hot.....

[DougB]

Their status currently reads there is 52 days work...that's huge for people who follow this project...

[WikiWill]

Already down to 50 43 days, but still a good feed.

From their forum news: "We will start with a batch of workunits that will need about 2 weeks for its calculation. Further batches will follow after the regular workunits in the beginning of September."

[Dingo]

Simap has about 35 days of work available.  There is also a BoincStats Challenge running that we are participating in.   

[DougB]

I'm on it... biggrin