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October
26, 2007
Together with the MPI in
Bremen and other partners (TU Munich,  ICoMM,
EuroCoML),
Ribocon arranges an
International
Workshop on ribosomal RNA Technology
which will take place in Bremen, Germany
from April 7-9, 2008.
The workshop is embedded within the framework of the ARB/SILVA project.
For further information, please visit the workshop
homepage.
September
18, 2007
New
Service: Genome Analysis!
Ribocon now offers the analysis
of genomic and metagenomic data as a valuable
service based on a fully automatic bioinformatic pipeline.
The service includes advanced ORF finding, automatic
annotation, and
extended support on request, and has three clear advantages:
We guarantee maximum transparency
for later citation of the methods in your manuscripts as well as highest scientific
standard. Only standard tools accepted by the scientific community are applied.
The results are provided in a standard format for your full access. For easy exploration of the data, a database plus a powerful comparative analysis and search tool is supplied.
Please visit the  Genome
Analysis page of our Services & Products
section for more information.
September
5, 2007
Ribocon
price marking modified!
All prices stated on the
Ribocon webpage are now given excl. VAT.
The motivation to change the prices indicated from gross to net
is based on Ribocon's world wide client base and the
variety of services/products offered, leading to a complex sales tax
situation. In many but not all cases we draw our invoices without
adding German VAT. Therefore, we decided
to now exclusively
state net prices (excl. VAT) for better clearness and consistency.
In general, the following applies:
(1) 19% VAT will be added to the given net price in any case if you order
from inside Germany or use a service within Germany (e.g. a regular ARB
workshop in Bremen).
(2)
All deliveries are charged without VAT (no addition to given net price)
if they leave Germany (intra-communty supply of goods within the European
Community/tax-free export for all
other countries - e.g. ARB installation CD).
(3)
In all other cases, potential addition and amount of VAT (German or of your
own country) depends on the kind and the location of the service.
July 27,
2007
Registration
procedure for regular ARB workshops changed!
So far, users who have
officially registered for our regular ARB workshops in Bremen,
Germany, but didn't get a place (number of participants
is limited to 10) were added to a waiting list. With this, we had offered
a preemption for the upcoming workshop.
However, this privilege turned out to be time consuming (not
more than ten people can be contacted per pass), inefficient, and finally
not completely comprehensible for the users.
Therefore, we have decided to modify the registration procedure. It now
works again on a simple first come, first serve basis. In case you are
not among the first ten applicants, you will still be added
to a list. But users on this list will just informed about the next
workshop date few days before it will offcially be announced. From here,
registration is again based on a first come, first serve basis (no preemption
including consideration time).
Please notice that all users normally need some time to recheck the announced
date of the workshop and to clarify funding. The courses are not booked
up within few days so there is no need to get nervous about this modification!
We hope to increase fairness within the registration procedure and
ask for your understanding.
July
4, 2007
Credit
card payment now available!
We now also offer payment
by credit card for our customers outside the European Community. Of course,
you are still free top pay by cheque or bank transfer, alternatively.
Credit card payment inside the European Community is offered on request.
Accepted are
MasterCard and VISA.
In case you would like to pay by credit card just inform us. We will send
you our credit card payment form by email which you have to fill in after
receive of the invoice and fax back to the number indicated on the form.
Your personal data will be handled strictly confidential.
March
9, 2007
Date for next
regular ARB workshop is fixed!
The next regular four
day Extended Basic ARB Workshop in Bremen, Germany,
will be held from June 12 - 15, 2007 (Tuesday to Friday). For more
information and registration
please refer to our training
section ...
February
13, 2007
SILVA database
project officially announced!
Today, the SILVA rRNA sequence
database project which can be accessed via
www.arb-silva.de was "officially" announced
via the ARB User Mailing list encompassing more than 500 users worldwide.
SILVA (latin, "silva"=forest) provides comprehensive, quality
checked and regularly updated databases of aligned small and large subunit
(SSU & LSU) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences for all three domains of life
(Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya).
They are virtually split into the reference "Ref" databases that only
contain high
quality, full length sequences and the comprehensive "Parc" databases with all "good" sequences
longer than 300 nucleotides.
The databases are primarily designed to supplement the ARB software package.
The SILVA project based on an automatic software pipeline and ongoing
manual dataset curation is a cooperation of the
Microbial Genomics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
in Bremen, the Department of Microbiology at the Technical University
Munich, and Ribocon.
Comprehensive
support related to ARB and SILVA is offered
by Ribocon.
February
12, 2007
ARB Installation
CD ARBuntu version 1.2 available!
The ARBuntu system installs
a complete operative Linux distribution (a Linux-based operating system
and a desktop environment plus a full set of common applications) as
well as the software package ARB to your computer by just booting from
the CD.
An automatic installer will guide you through the extremely simple installation
procedure of ARBuntu which takes including copying of the files less
than 30 minutes on a standard computer.
The new version 1.2 is available based on the Linux distribution Ubuntu 6.06
and
the K Desktop Environment (KDE) 3.5.
Orders can be placed
immediately; the CD will be shipped starting from Friday, 16th of February.
More
information ...
February
9, 2007
Revision of
web presentation of Sequence Analysis Service!
The web presentation of
the Ribocon Sequence Analysis Service is being revised
and will be available again end of calendar week 7. In case of questions,
of course you can still contact us via  sequences@ribocon.com.
Moreover, a Custom Microarray Manufacture service including
probe design, probe synthesis, and spotting will be added to the Ribocon
services, shortly.
December
4, 2006
Ribocon and
biomers.net agree on cooperation
Ribocon and the biomers.net GmbH which is specialised on the synthesis of oligonucleotides and
located in Ulm, Germany, have agreed upon a cooperation for design and
validation
of
probes for in situ hybridisation purposes and microarray technology.
December
1, 2006
Last ARB
training in 2006 successfully finished
Today, Ribocon has finished
the last ARB workshop of the year. In 2006, a total of 50 participants were trained in two regular four day workshops in Bremen (Extended Basic
ARB Workshops) and in three on site courses
in the Netherlands and in Switzerland.
The next regular four day
Extended Basic ARB
workshop in Bremen (details
here) will not be offered
before early summer 2007.
A concrete date is not yet fixed.
However, if additional people in your institution are working with ARB
or would like to do so in the future and if you are
interested in an, e.g., condensed on site ARB training,
feel
free
to
contact us.
November
30, 2006
New Version
of the Automatic Linux + ARB Installation CD ARBuntu planned
A new version of the
Automatic Linux + ARB Installation CD ARBuntu based on the latest Ubuntu
release 6.10 from October 2006 is currently in preparation. Presumably,
it will become available in January 2007.
From then, the update cycle of ARBuntu will directly be connected
to the update cycle of the Ubuntu Linux distribution to assure maximum
up-to-dateness and to minimize delays in
the future.
November
8, 2006
The MGE 'Bioinformatics
I' workshop will again be operated by Ribocon
in January 2007
Like in January this
year, Ribocon will also operate the 'Bioinformatics I: Introducation
to sequence and genome analysis' workshop
2007 within the Training & Education program of the Marine Genomics
Europe (MGE) Network. The workshop will be held from January
29th to February 2nd, 2007, in Bremen at the Max
Planck
Institute
for Marine Microbiology. More information on the workshop can be
found here
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