NEW

• blastdbkit - Tools for installing, updating and deleting and managing local copies of NCBI BLAST databases.
• BLAST+ - updated to version 2.3.0
• BIRCH News - Learn more about what you can do with BIRCH, and about new features.

BIRCH IS

• A comprehensive desktop bioinformatics system which comes with many of the commonly-used bioinformatics programs pre-installed
• A framework of tools, files, and documentation for organizing and managing a bioinformatics core facility
• An expandable system that allows you to merge 3rd party programs and documentation seamlessly into the standard BIRCH distribution

Please visit http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~psgendb/local/public_html/BIRCH3.20announcement.html