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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:black">Attention Xenopus researchers and Xenbase users.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:black">As you are aware, Xenbase has been unavailable for past 2 weeks, and unfortunately, is likely to remain down until the end of January. We are rebuilding the Virtual Machines and this
is a long and complicated process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:black">Thanks you to the many who have expressed their support, and although we’re happy to hear that we are indispensable, we are really sorry that you all have lost access to all our
<i>Xenopus</i> information at your fingertips. Please accept our sincere apologies, we know this is a major problem for a lot of people.</span><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:black">If you have and urgent and specific needs, please contact me directly. (The usual Xenbase helpdesk email is also frozen). Email: christina.james_zorn@cchmc.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Constantia",serif">Christina @ Xenbase<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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