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                              AceDB - March MAR


Executive summary.                                                                        
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Continuing support of AceDB for Wormbase, Zebra Fish and Havana groups. Recent
Worm Advisory board meeting recognised importance/usefulness of AceDB to
rapid and frequent releases of data and development of Wormbase.

ZMap developments include support for contacting DAS2 servers + improvements
to interface to allow screen splitting for multiple views of same or different
sequences.



Wormbase, Zebra Fish, Havana
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Wormbase: Bug fixes/enhancements to support new gene model, improvements to
GFF dumping.

Zebrafish: Enhancements to support Zebra fish annotation.

Havana: Fixes to Blixem



ZMap
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Thanks to Systems Support (thanks to Simon Kelley) now have up to date
GTK/Gnome/http/xml software on the alphas now allowing common build on linux
and alphas. Support added for getting data from an experimental DAS 2 server
(set up with help from web team, thanks to Roger Pettet). So ZMap now contacts
multiple servers of more than one type (AceDB + DAS servers).

ZMap interface improvements to screen control for vertical/horizontal splitting
and use of Gnome canvas for display.