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SBGN – A Survey of Pathway Diagrams

Could you spend a little time to complete a short survey about Biological Pathway diagrams? For a number of years now a community of like minded Systems Biologists have been developing a graphical notation that aims to systematically and unambiguously draw biological pathways. Our aim has been to permit the exchange of pathway information graphically [...]

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Google Summer of Code 2012 Announced

Google Summer of Code 2012 was officially announced on February 4th, 2012. The Google Summer of Code is a mentoring scheme in which software developers from across the open source community pass on their knowledge to the next generation of coding enthusiasts.  The Genome Informatics Group, organizing the joint efforts of Wormbase, Reactome, and GMOD [...]

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Reactome is participating in GSoC 2011 Mentor Summit

Reactome is one of 175 open source projects participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit on October 22-23 in Mountain View, California. This two-day unconference provides a unique opportunity for developers from projects worldwide the opportunity to meet, network and find common ground in the pursuit of making the GSoC program and open [...]

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KEGG needs your support!

One of the earliest and best-known database of biological pathways, The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), is in need of your support to ensure that it remains a freely available web resource. Read more here

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Reactome pathway data is available through the ICGC data portal.

Version 3 of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) web portal (http://dcc.icgc.org) will include new pathway reference dataset from Reactome. The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) was launched to coordinate large-scale cancer genome studies in tumours from 50 different cancer types and/or subtypes that are of clinical and societal importance across the globe. In this [...]

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Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Reactome author, wins Nobel

Reactome congratulates Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 2009 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and thanks her again for her group’s contributions to the Reactome Telomerase module.

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Franklin Award for Ewan Birney

The honor of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics for 2005 has been accorded to Ewan Birney.

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Bioinformatics Awards for Lincoln Stein


Lincoln Stein has been named the 2004 laureate of the Benjamin Franklin Award in Bioinformatics. He has also been featured by Genome Technology Magazine as “Most Innovative in Biotechnology”.

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