Lariat will enable scientists and educators in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Wyoming to take advantage of the wealth of remote research resources and expertise available to scientists in other areas of the country. The following resources are currently available within the western INBRE states. Please e-mail Cali Morrison at calim@cns.montana.edu or Kenneth Yoshimoto at kenneth@cns.montana.edu if you have a resource to add to the list.

A Combinatorial Approach to Clustering Gene Expression Data
Dr. Brendan Mumey (Computer Science, MSU-Bozeman) has recently developed a new algorithm and associated software for analyzing microarray data. Briefly, the approach simultaneously finds interesting genes and partitioning of the samples that is supported by the selected genes. Attached is the copy of paper he recently submitted to the RECOMB conference if anyone would like more details he would be happy to run this algorithm on anyone's data if they would like.

MSU Laser Microdissection & Functional GenomicsCore Facility

University of Nevada-Reno Center for Bioinformatics has a new DeCypher Bioinformatics Server. A DeCypher, from TimeLogic, is a special purpose Bioinformatics Supercomputer. The University of Nevada, Center for Bioinformatics has purchased two of the DeCypher modules- accelerated BLAST (TeraBLAST) and Hidden Markov Models. TimeLogic has given them a third module called 'GeneDetective' to test, but this is not yet fully functional. The system will allow you to do searches against the PFAM database in seconds, allowing you to get answers in real time. For larger batches of data, say a hundred or a thousand EST's, result notification can be sent to your inbox, allowing you to retrieve them at your leisure. This method is usually used with TeraBlast, where one typically is analyzing large amounts of data.