Xine Volume 6 - supplement 5, October 2006

Welcome to Xine, the source for Xenopus news and information. Here's what's happening...

From Steve Klein

The NIH is soliciting your ideas for new trans-NIH strategic initiatives for Fiscal Year 2008. From these suggestions, the NIH plans to fund approximately 5-8 new projects with $30-50 million per year.

Go to http://www.reffectcomments.org/Roadmap/Default.aspx to enter your ideas and to see the ideas that have been submitted already. For example, see the section on Animal Models.

Responses will be accepted through Friday, November 17, 2006.

Call for content

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protocols of general utility to the research community. In order for
this to occur, please send any such contributions to the editor who
will include them in a future (or special) issue of Xine.
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Links to useful sources of information for Xenopus (in no particular order)

general interest and utility
http://www.nih.gov/science/models/xenopus/ Trans NIH Xenopus initiative
http://tropicalis.berkeley.edu/home/ - Harland lab X. tropicalis site
http://faculty.virginia.edu/xtropicalis/ - Grainger lab X. tropicalis site
http://tropmap.biology.uh.edu/ - Amy Sater's X. tropicalis genetic map
https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/troplist - Information on the X. tropicalis listserver
http://list.mail.virginia.edu/pipermail/troplist/ - Troplist archives. Lots of good information here.
http://www.xenbase.org/ - Peter Vize's Xenopus �ber database
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/devbiol/zimmerman/ - Zimmerman Lab X. tropicalis website, database of mutants

genomic resources
http://xenopus.nibb.ac.jp/  - XDB at NIBB - Naoto Ueno's X. laevis EST database
http://xgc.nci.nih.gov/ - Xenopus gene collection
http://informatics.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/online/xt-fl-db.html   - full length collection at the Gurdon Institute
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr4/Xentr4.home.html   - JGI X. tropicalis genome site with browser and other info
http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/molecular_embryology/axeldb.htm AXELDB - Christof Niehrs' Xenopus database

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