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Dear MicroScope users,
Here is the latest news about the MicroScope. As you’ll see, we’ve been working hard to improve the platform and extend its usability. More exciting developments will be available in 2022 !
Please note that MicroScope will be off-line from Friday December 17th 12pm CEST to Monday December 20th around 2pm CEST. This long shut-down is needed to update several components of our IT infrastructure.
We also wanted to inform you that we will now ask you to confirm your personal account information annually.
MicroScope team wishes you a happy holiday season !
In order to improve the processing time of the genome analysis, we chose to replace NCBI blast with Diamond version 2 to perform protein sequence alignments (i.e. synteny computations and alignments against UniProt). Internal tests showed that the results obtained
In order to improve the selection of genomes, MicroScope 3.15.2 introduced the possibility to select genomes based on a subset of species-level metadata published in Joshua S. Madin et al., A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data. Sci
In the spring of 2020, we conducted a satisfaction survey with over 1700 users of the MicroScope platform. With this survey we wanted to know more about the profile of our user community and their use of the platform for
We are pleased to inform you about MicroScope professional training courses in 2022. Two sessions of the «Annotation and analysis of prokaryotic genomes using the MicroScope platform» course are planned at the University of Evry: Monday 14th March 2021 – Friday 18th March
In order to optimize data management in MicroScope we have decided to proceed to several changes. First we have decided to remove obsolete genome assemblies from MicroScope. This step concerns genomes from GenBank which have been deleted from the database
Reminder: if you want to be updated about new functionalities or service interruptions of the platform, don’t forget to subscribe to our new RSS feed: https://labgem.genoscope.cns.fr/category/microscope-announce/feed/
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