<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Guys,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just to let you know that Tom and I have released EnzymeX 3, the second app that uses the BioCocoa standalone reader to read sequence files.</DIV><DIV>Check it out at mekentosj.com!</DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Alex</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>******************************</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Announcement: EnzymeX 3 - To cut or not to cut, no longer a question!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Amsterdam, March 31st 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mek & Tosj like to announce a completely rewritten version of one their most popular programs, EnzymeX. EnzymeX has become a favorite tool of many molecular biologists using a mac. It is a program developed to help them determine which restriction enzymes they should use to cut their DNA of interest. In addition, it gives all the specific properties of these enzymes to make sure that every digestion is a success. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One of the most requested features people wanted to see in EnzymeX was the ability to load their DNA of interest and analyze where exactly the different enzymes would cut. Sure there are other programs that can do this, but why do they have to look like coming straight from the 1980's or from another platform? Now the long wait is over and we have finally created a DNA sequence editor that brings all those features and the look and feel you can expect to come with a true MacOSX program. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">New in EnzymeX 3:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What is not? We have completely redesigned the program, too many new things too mention. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Here are a few a the main new features:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Support of many DNA sequence formats through the BioCocoa core</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Direct download of sequences from NCBI's Entrez DNA database</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Finding of Open Reading Frames and translation from DNA to Protein</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Enzyme Restriction maps</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Smart Quick Search, with Motifs searches</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- Mini enzyme inspector showing all the enzyme info you ever need</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- EnzymeX plugin architecture for custom extensions</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- And much much more...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You can find more information about EnzymeX at: <A href="http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex">http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Download EnzymeX directly from: <A href="http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex/enzymex.dmg">http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex/enzymex.dmg</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mek & Tosj are Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis, two phD students at the 4th floor of the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Headed by the characteristic professor Sjaak Neefjes, we are doing cell biological research studying the immune system and cellular transport. To make our lives a little bit less complicated, we wrote LabAssistant, a tool to organize scientific experiments, notes, reminders, etc. (<A href="http://www.mekentosj.com/labassistant">http://www.mekentosj.com/labassistant</A>), and iRNAi, a program to easily find an generate the building blocks for a technique called RNA interference. With our latest and most popular program 4Peaks we won the Apple Design Award for best MacOSX student project in 2004.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Today we have released a complete new version of our popular program for molecular biologists: EnzymeX 3</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sincerly,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mek & Tosj</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alexander Griekspoor</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tom Groothuis</DIV><DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">********************************************************<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>** Alexander Griekspoor **</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">*********************************************************<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The Netherlands Cancer Institute</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Department of Tumorbiology (H4)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Tel:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>+ 31 20 - 512 2023</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Fax:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>+ 31 20 - 512 2029</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>E-mail: <A href="mailto:a.griekspoor@nki.nl">a.griekspoor@nki.nl</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN> </SPAN>AIM: <A href="mailto:mekentosj@mac.com">mekentosj@mac.com</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Web: <A href="http://www.mekentosj.com">http://www.mekentosj.com</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>EnzymeX - To cut or not to cut<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex">http://www.mekentosj.com/enzymex</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">*********************************************************</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>