Biomax Informatics has released version 3 of its Pedant-Pro Sequence Analysis Suite for automatically annotating individual sequences and complete genomes. The new release includes a new workflow architecture and a new user interface. The software is available as an in-house solution or as hosted service at the Biomax website.
Affymetrix and Iconix Biosciences have jointly launched the ToxFX Analysis Suite, a toxicogenomics analysis system that combines Iconix’ automated analysis with Affy GeneChips to generate a compound safety profile. ToxFX users first generate gene-expression data from rat samples on either the GeneChip Rat ToxFX 1.0 Array or the Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array. The data are then compared to the Iconix Drug Signatures and pathway response libraries and cross-referenced to identify matches to known toxicological responses in order to generate a toxicity profile for the compound. Affymetrix is marketing the ToxFX Analysis Suite, which includes ToxFX 1.0 GeneChip microarrays with “Analysis Certificates.” An individual Analysis Certificate, which enables data from a single array to be compared with the reference database, can be purchased directly from Iconix.
MIFit 3.1, a crystallographic model-building program, is available from Molecular Images here. New features include a full refinement interface for use with CCP4 and REFMAC5, as well as a display of crystal cell axes, more efficient generation of symmetry related atoms, a “sequence view” that follows the active model, distance labels on H-bond displays, and graphical display of distance monitors.
RefSeq 20 is available here from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. RefSeq 20 includes 4,567,569 records, 3,000,705 proteins, and sequences from 3,919 different organisms.