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3rd place

... is the result of our effort to win the start2grow competition! We are very happy!

start2grow

start2grow is the name of a business plan competition we participated in and, hey, we are invited to join the final round, together with twenty other teams. Ten teams will get a price. So wish us luck!

BioWeka 0.7.0 released

This release contains some important changes and bug fixes:

• We changed the architecture of the alignment packages. The new aligner classes are found in packages which refer to the source of the underlying algorithm code (e.g. bioweka.aligners.jaligner.SmithWatermanGotohAligner).
• The new release solves a problem when using the "supply test set" option with BlastClassifier or SimpleAlignmentClassifier, which lead to incorrect results in previous releases (other options like cross-validation or percentage split were not affected).
• The interface of the BlastParser and the converter classes for sequence-based data formats have been updated.

ScieCon 2007

For my German readers:

Biothursday: "ScieCon 2007 - Firmenkontaktmesse für Life Sciences

Biowissenschaftler und Mediziner haben hier die Möglichkeit, Kontakte zu Unternehmen aus der Biotechnologie, Pharmaindustrie und Medizintechnik zu knüpfen und sich über die aktuellen Trends der Branche zu informieren. Rahmenprogramm mit Vorträgen, u.a. von Leibniz-Preisträger Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, Genzentrum München. Nähere Informationen unter: www.sciecon.info

Termin: Mittwoch, 16.Mai 2007 10:00 - 18:00

Ort: Marchionistraße 15, 81377 München, Klinikum Großhadern, Hörsaaltrakt"

BioWeka - extending the Weka framework for bioinformatics

Now it's official - the paper about BioWeka is published in the current issue of Bioinformatics: BioWeka--extending the Weka framework for bioinformatics -- Gewehr et al. 23 (5): 651 -- Bioinformatics

What a surprise

I still can't believe it: we are one of the ten teams that were honoured at the Science4Life Venture Cup for their business plan. A great thanks to

• the Science4Life team, especially Christiane Wohlers, for the perfect organisation
• our coach Wolfgang Schmidt for valueable feedback on our business plan
• the unknown jury members for sending us their assessments
  
• the speakers for the interesting presentations about business development, patents and law issues
• Sanofi-Aventis and Bundesland Hessen for the sponsoring of this event
  
• everybody else for their input and the exciting discussions!

Hope to see you again soon!