News
April 2008:
PARALIGN version 5.0 released
PARALIGN version 5.0 was released on 9 April 2008. This release includes support for the
Linux i386 platform only. It works well with the latest releases of preformatted databases from NCBI. For more details about
the changes, see the release
notes.
May 2006:
PARALIGN version 4.2.2 released
PARALIGN version 4.2.2
was released on 11 May 2006. This release includes support for the
Linux PowerPC platform and fixes some bugs. For more details about
the changes, see the release
notes.
March 2006:
PARALIGN version 4.2.1 released
PARALIGN version 4.2.1
was released on 24 March 2006. This is a bugfix release. For more
details about the changes, see the release
notes.
March 2006:
PARALIGN version 4.2.0 released
PARALIGN version 4.2.0
was released on 3 March 2006. The new version enables the direct
use of all the preformatted databases distributed by NCBI. It also
implements a unique new feature for searching only sequences from
a given source organism, by specifying a taxid number. For more
details about the changes, see the release
notes.
January 2006:
PARALIGN version 4.1.0 released
PARALIGN version 4.1.0
was released on 12 January 2006. This version allows the use of
"masked" alias files (.pal and .nal files), incorporating
subsets of other databases. It also fixes some memory leak problems.
For more details about the changes, see the release
notes.
October 2005:
PARALIGN version 4.0.0 released
PARALIGN version 4.0.0
was released on 23 October 2005. This version allows the use large
concatenated databases in the form of simple "alias" files.
This makes it easy to search very large databases that have been
split in order to avoid file system limitations. For more details
about the changes, see the release
notes.
January 2005:
PARALIGN used by the EBI CluSTr project
The EBI CluSTr
project uses PARALIGN to carry out rapid Smith-Waterman searches
as one of the first steps to construct the CLuSTr database of groups
of related proteins. See the CluSTr documentation
for more information on how PARALIGN is used. The CluSTr database
forms a part of Integr8.
October 2004:
PARALIGN version 3.4.1 released
PARALIGN version 3.4.1
was released on 18 October 2004. This version fixes a few minor
issues and adds some performance improvement. For more details about
the changes, see the release
notes.
June 2004:
Drastically increased search speed of PARALIGN online search service
by new 66-CPU cluster
The PARALIGN online search service at www.paralign.org
is now powered by a 66-CPU computer cluster, drastically increasing
search speed. Searches in a translated Human EST database are carried
out in about 10 seconds using an average length protein query sequence.
Searches in protein databases are done in seconds. The online searches
are freely available.
May 2004:
SENCEL is hiring
Sencel is looking for a software developer and a business manager.
Application deadline is 24 May 2004. See the advertisement for further
details.
January 2004:
PARALIGN now available on five platforms
PARALIGN version 3.3.7, including the accelerated Smith-Waterman
implementation, has now been released for five major computing platforms.
The platforms are: Linux on x86, Linux on Itanium, HP-UX on Itanium,
MacOS X on PowerPC, and Tru64 Unix on Alpha. The new version is
very fast — on most platforms PARALIGN carries out protein
searches as fast as BLAST. The new version also includes some new
features. PARALIGN can be downloaded now, and licenses are available
free of charge for academic, non-commercial use. Free evaluation
licenses are given to other users, and online demo searches can
be carried out by anyone.
November 2003:
PARALIGN for PowerPC, Itanium 2 and Alpha will soon be made available
Sencel Bioinformatics is pleased to announce that a new version
of PARALIGN, including the accelerated Smith-Waterman implementation,
has been developed for computers based on the PowerPC, Itanium 2
and Alpha processors, in addition to the Pentium processors. The
new version is much faster than the old version and also includes
some new features. The software will be released soon. Sencel also
has plans to release a software library with accelerated Smith-Waterman
search functions. Please contact Sencel
if you would like to be informed when the software has been released.
September 2003:
Free demo searches
Free demo searches are now
available without registration. A range of weekly updated databases
are available.
February 2003:
Free non-commercial licenses
Free licenses to PARALIGN are now available for non-commercial
use, thanks to support from the Functional
Genomics programme in Norway (FUGE). Please register
first, then request a free license.
November 2001:
Evaluation licenses available
SENCEL's software is now available for evaluation
by downloading the software to your own computer. It is available
for computers running Linux on Intel Pentium III, Pentium 4 and
similar processors.
November 2001:
Sencel accelerates sensitive genome searches
Now you can accelerate Smith-Waterman searches by an order of magnitude
using software from Sencel.
Running Sencel's search software
is the fastest way to perform Smith-Waterman searches on standard
hardware. Using the new ParAlign algorithm, you can obtain
the same level of sensitivity at even higher speeds.
The speed is achieved using Sencel's patent pending technology
that relies on the multimedia
technology embedded in most computers but not generally used
by ordinary software.
You can run online searches on this web site to evaluate Sencel's
software. Please register
to test it. You will soon be able to download an evaluation version
of the software to your own computer.
The software will be ready for release shortly, and will initially
be available for computers running Linux on Intel Pentium III, Pentium
4 and similar processors.
June 2001:
Sencel Bioinformatics founded
Sencel Bioinformatics AS was formally established in June 2001 as
a privately held limited liability company. |