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All,

Please find enclosed very short newsletters for acedb for June/July. These seem
not to have gone out when originally sent, perhaps because of mail problems last
month at Sanger.

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| Ed Griffiths, Acedb development, Informatics Group,                    |
|        Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,  |
|               Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK                          |
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| email: edgrif@sanger.ac.uk  Tel: +44-1223-494780  Fax: +44-1223-494919 |
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  ACEDB User Group Newsletter - June 2004
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If you want to have this newsletter mailed to you *_or_* you want to
make comments/suggestions about the format/content then send an email to
acedb@sanger.ac.uk <mailto:acedb@sanger.ac.uk>.

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This month has seen a lot of activity on a new ZMap project (a client
version of FMap) by the acedb development team at Sanger and some
writing activity on AceDB by Richard Durbin and Ed Griffiths, which adds
up to a small newsletter for June.

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    General News
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AceDB in print: a specialist review article on AceDB is to appear in
"Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics" to
be published soon by John Wiley & Sons. These articles are 1000 - 2000
words and offer the chance to give a overview of a particular area
rather than a detailed technical description.

We'll let you know when its officially published.

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    No June build.
    **************

You can pick up the monthly builds from:

*Sanger users*
    ~acedb/RELEASE.DEVELOPMENT
*External users*
    http://www.acedb.org/Software/Downloads/monthly.shtml
    <http://www.acedb.org/Software/Downloads/monthly.shtml>

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Ed Griffiths <edgrif@sanger.ac.uk> <mailto:edgrif@sanger.ac.uk>

Last modified: Mon Aug 9 15:01:58 BST 2004




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  ACEDB User Group Newsletter - July 2004
  #######################################

If you want to have this newsletter mailed to you *_or_* you want to
make comments/suggestions about the format/content then send an email to
acedb@sanger.ac.uk <mailto:acedb@sanger.ac.uk>.

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Acedb goes live on the Opteron !

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    General News
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      Acedb on the AMD Opteron !
      ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

(/Thanks to Duncan Napier who is the true hero of this article/
dgnapier@sfu.ca <mailto:dgnapier@sfu.ca>)

Acedb has been ported to run on machines using AMD's Opteron chip (this
is the AMD 64-bit Intel compatible chip).

After lots of email exchange with Duncan Napier and some good debugging
by him, it turned out that a simple one line change was all that was
needed:

|      /* NEW ADDITION for the AMD64/Opteron */
      #if defined(__x86_64__)
      #  define STACK_ALIGNMENT 8
      #endif
|

This change in wh/mystdlib.h ensures that the acedb code when compiled
for the opteron uses a stack word length of 8 bytes.

The main work to port acedb onto 64-bit machines was done about 10 years
ago for the then DEC (subsequently COMPAQ, now HP) Alpha chip. This
allowed rapid porting subsequently to SGI, HP and IBM-6000 machines.

To be able to configure acedb so easily for this new chip, which is
bound to become very popular over the next 2 or 3 years, is a definite
coup, proving once again the great portability of the ACEDB kernel.

Thanks Duncan !

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    July no monthly build available.
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A monthly build incorporating Duncans port to the Opteron will be
available by mid August along with a number of fixes. More news next month.

You can pick up the monthly builds from:

*Sanger users*
    ~acedb/RELEASE.DEVELOPMENT
*External users*
    http://www.acedb.org/Software/Downloads/monthly.shtml
    <http://www.acedb.org/Software/Downloads/monthly.shtml>

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Ed Griffiths <edgrif@sanger.ac.uk> <mailto:edgrif@sanger.ac.uk>

Last modified: Tue Aug 10 10:48:17 BST 2004