Announcements

AMAZING! We now have three distinguished faculty members who have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences! Congratulations to newest academy member, Dr. Richard Lenski (see article, May 2006), as he joins two other CME faculty members, Dr. James M. Tiedje and Dr. Michael F. Thomashow who were elected in 2003. (see article, May 2003)

CME is pleased to announce the release version 1.27 of the Center for Microbial Ecology Image Analysis System (CMEIAS software), designed to strengthen microscopy-based approaches for understanding microbial ecology. To learn more about CMEIAS and download its free program files and operator manual, go to http://cme.msu.edu/cmeias/

Ribosomal Database Project II - Release 9 adding and improving our tools and even more video tutorials. Release 9.60 (22 Apr 08) contains 511,847 aligned and annotated Bacterial and Archaeal small-subunit rRNA sequences, with additions made monthly using TOBA Release 7.7 (The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea). Explore our beta version of the new Taxomatic visualization tool. Find sequences from completed genomes by searching with the GenBank Project ID and view sequences from the Whole Genome Project with our new Genome Viewer. Our upgraded Tree Builder tool includes bootstrap confidence estimates. Seqmatch results can be downloaded as a tab-delimited text file and imported into a spreadsheet program such as Excel for additional analysis. http://rdp.cme.msu.edu