Latest News

Here are some of the latest updates in HPA Bioinformatics.

Latest Research Tool

Variable Region Finder is a tool that finds regions of difference between strains where there are at least three genome sequences available. This application will allow scientists to quickly determine regions that will be of interest when studying phenotypic difference or designing typing assays.

Find more research tools on our Bioinformatics Online Tools page.

Latest Reference Papers

• Analysis of Natural Sequence Variation and Covariation in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Integrase. Journal of Virology
• Development of an online database for diphtheria molecular epidemiology under the remit of the DIPNET project. Eurosurveillance
• Mathematical modelling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis VNTR loci estimates a very slow mutation rate for the repeats. Journal of Molecular Evolution

These articles represent the latest publication of peer reviewed collaborations between members of the Bioinformatics group and other units within the Health Protection Agency. Links to articles and journals can be found on our publications page

Latest Crib Sheet

The latest addition to the crib sheet library explains how to create and edit high quality contigs from DNA sequence traces using BioNumerics Assembler tool.

Bioinformatics Resources

The resources section provides a portal to many of our online facilities. Included in these pages are three major areas that are of continuing relevance to all bioinformatics users.

• Publications - Peer reviewed articles authored by members of the bioinformatics team.
• Software - Listings and reviews of commonly used software tools
• Scripts - Locally developed BioNumerics scripts.

Have your Say

As always, we encourage staff from all over the HPA to contribute to the bioinformatics community, so do you have any recent news that people should know about? Contact us and we'll put it into the next newsletter.

Last reviewed: 12 February 2009