09.01.2009 - Stefan
B2G-FAR Demo at the Plant & Animal Genomes XVII Conference

05.01.2009 - Ana and Stefan
We wish all Blast2GO users out there a happy new year 2009.
Looking forward to further recieve all your helpfull feedback in 2009.
Thanks and all the best!!!

19.07.2008 - Ana and Stefan
Network architechture is beeing changed to improve performance. The B2G database will be temporarily out of service.

01.07.2008 - Ana and Stefan
Check the B2G Functional Annotation Repository (B2G-FAR) with more of 2000 annotated species and probes in all non-model Affymetrix chips.

15.05.2008 - Stefan
Blast2GO got a new WebPage layout

01.05.2008 - Ana and Stefan
Please check out our new Blast2GO paper at: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkn176v1

18.04.2008 - Stefan
SiMap, the similarity matrix of proteins containing pre-calculated sequence alignments of over 18.000.000 different protein sequences is now completely annotated by Blast2GO http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/portal/web/simap/

01.04.2007 - Ana and Stefan
We have moved to the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe. We will continue B2G developments from the Bioinformatics Department (http://bioinfo.cipf.es)

18.10.2006 - Ana and Stefan
We proudly announce the release of the brand new B2G Tutorial. Get it here!

18.10.2006 - Stefan
Problem with Blast Xml Version 2.2.14 Import We have to announce that the Blast XML import in the B2G desktop and in the pipeline version dose not work correctly due to an new XML format change made by the NCBI for the most recent blast version 2.2.14. So if you are about to prepare Blast results in XML format to be processed by B2G (desktop/pipe) please make use of a previous version of blast until we updated the XML parsing to support the new and the old format.

FYI:
Peter Cooper from NCBI confirmed: The XML output has changed so that the output for searches with multiple sequences is now a valid XML structure. Previously the result for each query was its own self-contained xml document, and the result for a batch query was concatenated set of individual xml results. This was not valid xml. The element in nucleotide and normal protein blast now separates the results for each query 2.2.14 and the entire set is one single XML structure.

5.09.2006 - Ana and Stefan
Dear Blast2GO Users, since we had several connectivity problems during the month of August and the Blast2GO DBs and Services were not always available as desired we wanted to send our apologize to all the user who had been affected by the malfunctioning. Blast2GO is running stable now again and everybody is again most welcome to work with Blast2GO. We hope that there will be no further downtimes and B2G will work reliable. We want to use this announcement also to thank you for all your useful feedback until now and are looking forward to be in close contact with all of you to keep improving the application to be as useful/powerfull as possible! Concerning the new features like Kegg and InterPro we would like to ask for your patiens. These are beta features and we are full of improvement ideas - with really interesting things to come up soon. Thanks again and best regards, Ana and Stefan

8.08.2006 - Ana Conesa
Due to problems with the regular Blst2GO server the Graph and Enrichment analysis funtions will be temporary dissabeled. Blast can proceed normally. For executing mapping and annotation functions change the DB configuratio (Tools menu) to: DB Host: blast2go.ivia.es → DB name: go Our apologies for the inconvenience. We will restore the normal servcie as soon as possible. —→ FIXED

8.03.2006 - Stefan Goetz
Blast2GO Newsletter with all the recien introduced features and upcomming ones. B2G_News_March2006.pdf

8.03.2006 - Stefan Goetz
The tutorial to set up a local B2G database was updated to support Annex and Enzyme Code retrieval → Downloads.

22.02.2006 - Stefan Goetz
The Blast2GO (B2G) Pipeline Version (B2G4Pipe) runs B2G without any graphical interface. Have a look at pipereadme.txt for further information.

12.12.2005 - Stefan Goetz
Fixed - We are very sorry to have to announce that the Blast2GO server will be offline some time due to technical problems. We are working on the problem and will be back up as soon as possible - Fixed.

16.11.2005 - Stefan Goetz
Mac Bug fixed. The xml encoding bug reported by serveral macintosh users while blasting or importing blast results is now fixed. Thanks to Pere!

8.11.2005 - Stefan Goetz
GO Slims in B2G. “GO slims are cut-down versions of the GO ontologies containing a subset of the terms in the whole GO”. Any annotation within B2G, generated by B2G or imported from a CSV-File, can be cut-down/resumed by the use of Go-Slim. (Details:http://www.geneontology.org/GO.slims.shtml) B2G provides at the moment the GO Consortium maintained GO slims but if you are interested in other slims you are welcome to contact us. Once “Go-Slim annotation is generated you may generate “Combined Graphs” of perform enrichment Analysis before returning to the original annotation. You find the Go-Slim generation in B2G→Menu→Extras.

7.11.2005 - Stefan Goetz
New Batch-Mode. It permits to select several fasta files (dna or aa) and perform blasting with xml-export, mapping and annotation. File are then automatically saved as .dat in the same folder. The configuration of blast and annotation parameters can be defined by the file “blast2go.properties” in your Blast2Go folder. You can find the batch mode in B2G→Menu→Extras.

24.10.2005 - Stefan Goetz
A tutorial to set up a local B2G database is now available at Downloads.

01.10.2005 - Stefan Goetz
Meeting Photo: 2005 GO Users Meeting

18.09.2005 - Stefan Goetz
New Blast2GO Mail List! To support the use of B2G and to keep you up to date we have created a mail group to share the information. Feedback, support, discussion, news, announcements, comments, suggestions and bug-reports can be posted here. You are invited to join at http://groups.google.com/group/Blast2GO Thanks in advanced for your future contributions.