We're delighted that more and more SEA institutions are coming together to host regional SEA symposia. In 2016-2017, 5 regional symposia were held, attended by students and faculty from 17 SEA institutions. Regional symposia offer many benefits, including more opportunities for students and faculty to network, collaborate, and present their research. HHMI is pleased to ...
Regional Symposia
Written by on Sept. 1, 2017 .
2018 Membership and Responsibilities
Written by on Aug. 29, 2017 .
Dear SEA-PHAGES Faculty,
We’re looking forward to the coming academic year, and its culmination in what will be the 10th Annual SEA-PHAGES Symposium at Janelia Research Campus on June 8-10, 2018. We are pleased that the program continues to be adopted by a variety of different institutions. This fall, seventeen new schools joined up as ...
Annotation Forum Reorganization
Written by on April 4, 2017 .
An Inherent Problem with Annotation
With the constant influx of new software tools, new genomes, and new publications, the way we annotate genomes is always changing. We always know a bit more than we did last year, and often a lot more than we did 5 years ago.
This leads to an inherent problem, however, ...
Sequencing Status 2016-17
Written on Nov. 29, 2016 .
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DNA Master Updated to Use Secure NCBI Connections
Written by on Nov. 16, 2016 .
Thanks to Jeffrey Lawrence, significant changes have been made to the DNA Master code which now allow it to access the newly-secure servers of NCBI. To obtain these changes, you need to update the program. Without updating, important features of DNA Master will not work, including auto-annotation and BLASTing.
To update, open DNA Master ...
DNA Master Under Construction
Written by on Nov. 7, 2016 .
Dear All,
NCBI is upgrading its security protocols for programs that contact its servers. DNA Master uses the NCBI servers for both BLAST data and for auto-annotations. At the current time, we have been unable to upgrade DNA Master to use the new protocols, which means auto-annotations and BLASTing through DNA Master will fail.
We ...
2016 Sequencing Information
Written on Nov. 3, 2016 .
Sequencing time of year approaches once again!
Remember that each SEA-PHAGES school can have two genomes sequenced per in silico section they are teaching this year. We recommend that you send at least one backup sample in case one of your samples fails our QC. Please indicate any order of preference, if you have one. ...
2016 Fall Archive Tubes
Written by on Nov. 1, 2016 .
Archive tubes were shipped this week. Expect them no later than Thursday, November 3, 2016.
A couple small changes to seaphages.org
Written by on Sept. 19, 2016 in Using seaphages.org.
Navigation Menus
Just a quick alert that sometime in the next couple of weeks, we'll be slightly changing the menus that appear at the top of seaphages.org. The current menus were just sort of tacked-together as we built the site, and so hopefully the rearrangement will be a bit more intuitive, but feedback is always ...
Accepting Applications for 2017-18
Written by on June 15, 2016 .
HHMI has released a call for applications for new schools to join the SEA-PHAGES program for the 2017-18 academic year. Any schools that are interested can view application instructions and materials at the link below.