Bessey Hall Bioinformatics Facility Opens September 3, 2002 The Bessey Hall Bioinformatics Facility located in Room 469 will officially open on Tuesday September 3. A Grand Opening celebration and informational meeting will take place outside the facility at 10 am. All are welcome. The facility is intended for use by students, faculty and staff in Bessey Hall and nearby buildings as a local resource for bioinformatics-related educational and research activities. It houses six computer workstations (three PCs running Windows, two Macintosh G4s, and a Linux box), a scanner, and a printer dedicated for bioinformatics applications. The computers connect over the campus network to the deepc2 server in Molecular Biology, which allows them to run applications such as GCG. Applications installed locally on the computers include Sequencher, GeneSpring, Office, EMBOSS, and others. The networked color laser printer in the Plant Pathology Office can be accessed through each of the machines for printouts of color graphical output. The facility has been made possible through the efforts of Plant Pathology faculty member Adam Bogdanove, with support from Xiaowu Gai (Associate Scientist with the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics), Mike Brekke (Systems Support Specialist with the Baker Center), Laura Darnielle (Plant Pathology staff member) and Zach Gorman (Plant Pathology computer assistant). Funding for the facility was provided through an NSF IGERT grant for computational biology to ISU, through the Plant Sciences Institute Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses chaired by Charlotte Bronson, and through a Computer Use Fee grant from the College of Agriculture. Space for the facility was provided by the Botany Department chaired by David Oliver. Thanks also are due to Dan Voytas (Zoology and Genetics), Hal Stern (former interim director of the Baker Center), Roger Wise (Plant Pathology), Dennis Halterman (Plant Pathology), and many individuals not named here whose support of the idea to establish the facility helped secure funding, and whose input aided in its design. Data storage on the machines in the facility is not permitted; each is equipped with CDRW and Zip250 drives. The facility is open only during the day, but night-owls may gain access after hours by obtaining a key through the Botany Department. Those unable to attend the Grand Opening are encouraged to contact Adam Bogdanove (ajbog@iastate.edu) for further information.
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