We are pleased to announce the release of three new GenMAPP Gene
Databases for Arabidopsis thaliana, Plasmodium falciparum, Vibrio cholerae,
and an update to the Escherichia coli K12 Gene Database.

These databases were created automatically by the Bioinformatics Group at
Loyola Marymount University using a suite of programs called XMLPipeDB,
a reusable open source tool chain for building relational databases
from XML sources (http://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu).

These Gene Databases are "UniProt-centric" as they are based on
the UniProt complete proteome sets available from Integr8 and the GOA
gene associations to Gene Ontology.

Each database contains several "proper" gene ID systems, including UniProt,
RefSeq, and Entrez Gene (GeneId), as well as the organism-specific gene IDs
(OrderedLocusNames). They also contain annotation
information from EMBL, Gene Ontology, InterPro, PDB and Pfam. They are
fully compatible with MAPPFinder analysis.

The databases are available for download through the Downloader tool in
GenMAPP, as well as through our SourceForge site at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlpipedb/files/. A detailed ReadMe document
describing the database schema is packaged with each database.

GenMAPP users who wish to use these Gene Databases need only
to download them for use with GenMAPP.  Bioinformatics software
developers may be interested in finding out more about the open source
XMLPipeDB project.

Sincerely,

Kam D. Dahlquist
John David N. Dionisio

Loyola Marymount University Bioinformatics Group
http://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu