1. DNASIS SmartNote now shows a graphical view of any sequence annotations included in files imported from Entrez. To see it, click the “Details” link next to the sequence in the “My Sequences” view. Here’s what it looks like:

2. The xTAG Tool now lets you exclude certain bead regions. In addition, its results now also include tag and anti-tag sequences.

By default, DNASIS SmartNote will track PubMed articles related to up to 10 of your most recently imported sequences. You can view these regularly updated articles by clicking on the “Articles” tab. From here, you can also clip individual articles into your notebook, as well as print and email them.

If you want to receive regular email updates for new articles, you’ll need to explicitly mark at least one of your sequences listed in the “My Seq’s” tab. You will then start receiving regular emails with any newly published articles related to your sequences. Since you can only track 10 sequences, the sequences you have explicitly marked will get higher priority.

How does DNASIS SmartNote find related articles? If the sequence was imported as a GenBank file, DNASIS SmartNote looks for gene names in the annotations. Otherwise, it defaults to a plain text search of words in the sequence’s description.

We invite you to try out this new feature and let us know if we can do anything to improve it for you.

By popular demand, DNASIS SmartNote now supports sequence annotation. Annotations in GenBank files are automatically imported, and you can also add annotations manually by clicking the “Edit” link next to each sequence in your database, and specifying name, type, range and orientation.