<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Apologies for a long email but we have a couple of developments at the EXRC which we are very excited about and would like you to take advantage of should you need them:</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">We are pleased to announce that the EXRC has a new and much updated website which is at <a href="http://xenopusresource.org/" target="_blank">xenopusresource.org</a>. We have decided to release it whilst some of the transgenic line images and plasmids are still being gathered and uploaded to the site since this takes quite a while. Many thanks to those of you who tested it prior to release, particularly the staff at Xenbase. Your feedback produced some major improvements. Also a huge thank you to Maya Piccinni who worked tirelessly with the web designers to make the site as useful and easy to access as possible.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Please do visit the website, which now includes updated resources such as the ORFeome, and send us any suggestions for further improvements. You should be re-directed automatically from the current site for the next three months. We hope you find the site really useful.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal">I also would like to ask you whether a service we are considering offering through the EXRC would be of use to you. Quang Si Le has just joined our institute having worked as a Bioinformatician first at the Sanger then at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Quang’s post here is designed for him to continue his own research but with support for other groups as part of his role rather than teaching. He is keen to explore the possibility of some of that support reaching outside the institute via the EXRC. With Xenopus lending itself so well to RNAseq and ChIPseq and the price of sequencing falling so fast bioinformatic analysis of these data is now a major bottleneck, certainly for smaller institutions or projects. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Quang would like to know whether other Xenopus researchers are experiencing this bottleneck and he would be willing to provide an analysis service (as with all EXRC services) at cost, or for more specialized requirements as a collaboration. He has set up automatic pipelines to do the analysis on the large cluster that is available at UoP and can then provide the detailed, final reports that are fully statistically validated. This will be distinct from the service provided by companies since Quang is involved in research using Xenopus and is well-placed to provide sound comments and advice. Please could you email <a href="mailto:exrc@xenopusresource.org" target="_blank">exrc@xenopusresource.org</a> if you think you may have a need for such a service either now or in the next 24 months, this will help us decide whether to offer it or not.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">with very best wishes,</p></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">The EXRC team</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Matt Guille<br>
Professor of Developmental Genetics<br>
University of Portsmouth
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