Bio::Neos News

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth at this years American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in Philadelphia! Getting the opportunity to meet face to face and discuss current research is truly a pleasure. If you have any questions for us please contact us. We look forward to following up with those we had a chance to meet. And for those who missed us this year feel free to shoot us an email, we would love to discuss how Bio::Neos can help you further your work.

Keep an eye out for our upcoming newsletter that will feature a review of this years ASHG from one of our senior scientific officers, Dr. Terry Braun.

We will be exhibiting at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting, November 11th - 15th, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If you are planning on attending, stop by our booth, #833, and say hello! If you can't make the conference this year but have colleagues that will, feel free to send them our way. We look forward to any opportunity that allows us to meet with researchers and discuss current research and how we could help. See you in Philly!

If you have been to our website before, you will notice that we just updated our site! If you have never visited us before, welcome to a brand new site!

We thought a makeover was overdue. We also adjusted the site navigation and brought everything to the navigation frame on the left side of the page. We hope you like the new look and that the new navigation makes it that much easier to find exactly what you are looking for. If you happen to notice a broken link or a problem with the site, please let us know!

Version 1.1.0 of our free gene browser, GANT, has just been released and is now available for download. This release features many internal improvements that enhance the stability and usability of GANT.

If you have previously downloaded GANT, you can go to the Help menu in GANT and select 'Check For Updates' to download the update. After you press the Download button it can take 1-2 minutes to download. After the update has been downloaded, GANT will close and the installer for version 1.1.0 will run.

If you have never used GANT before, you can visit the GANT product page for more information and to download. Contact support@bioneos.com with any questions or support issues.

We are proud to announce the publication of the "Transcript Annotation Prioritization and Screening System (TrAPSS) For Mutation Screening" article (Pubmed ID: 18172923) in the December Issue of the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (vol. 5, issue 6). Our product Bio::POD has been integrated into the TrAPSS application through a plugin interface we designed. TrAPSS and Bio::POD are used on a daily basis for research ongoing at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. The system, and the use of Bio::POD, is described at length in this article.

We are proud to announce the release of our free gene browser, GANT. GANT (Gene and Annotation Navigation Tool) is a desktop deployed gene-centric genome browser. It has the unique ability to gather gene structure and annotation from multiple sources and present them together in an easy-to-navigate interface. Additional features are included such as the ability to add your own custom annotation and design primers with lightning speed.

GANT is available for free to all users. Visit the GANT product page for more information and to download.

Watch our new video about Bio::POD. In just a few short minutes, it will bring you up-to-speed on this exciting new technology and the innovative PAR (Prioritization of Annotated Regions) algorithm.

A detailed description of the Prioritization of Annotated Regions (PAR) algorithm, which is used exclusively in Bio::POD, has been published in the February issue of Human Mutation. The article, entitled "Prioritizing regions of candidate genes for efficient mutation screening" (Pubmed ID: 16395665) was authored by our Senior Scientific Officer, Dr. Terry Braun.

We have made a 30-day trial of Bio::POD available for download. Simply request to receive a trial and we will provide you with the trial and password authentication for free for 30 days.