2009
2009-08-27 The new RSS-Feed is available
To subscribe to diArks RSS-Feed, just click on the RSS icon in the address bar of your browser. Here is an example for Firefox:
Subsequently you will be forwarded to the RSS page. To directly reach this page, you can also enter the url 'http://www.diark.org/diark/feed'
On top of the RSS page, click "Subscribe Now" and select a folder in your bookmarks where to save the link.
There is a nice plug-in for Firefox, called "Brief", which checks all your RSS links and displays the new entries.
Check it out. You can also use every RSS-Feed reader you want, to be up-to-date with diArk.
2009-01-28
A major update of diArk has been released. This includes a complete reorganisation of the result views (Genome Stats, Genome Files, References, Sequencing Stats) because of changes in the database schema. Now, all genome data is directly obtained from the corresponding genome-assembly files that we got from the sequencing centers and NCBI/EMBL/DDBJ. The new result views provide genome assembly related data, like the GC-content of the genomes, the number of contigs, the assembly coverage, the assembly versions, the release dates, and many more. In addition, we now provide all whole-genome assemblies (complete and incomplete genomes), that have been submitted to NCBI/EMBL/DDBJ, as downloads. Of course, this update also includes hundreds of new species, projects, and related publications.
2007
2007-7-20 Mozillas add-on bioFOX includes diArk search
Good news for users with the bioFOX add-on for mozilla/firefox. In the next release of bioFOX the diArk search option for species search will be included! If you don't know bioFOX yet, we recommend to have a look.
2007-07-01 Search plugin available!
Now search in diArk directly from your browser!
You can search for any species existing in the diArk. Just type in either the scientific name, the common name, the German name, or the taxonomy. The result will show all matches to your search, e.g. all mammals when searching for "Mammalia".
Either click on image above (Firefox only) or pull down the search menu at the top right corner of your browser window and select "add diArk species search" to install.
2007-07-01
Many new features have been included in an updated version of the web-interface. In addition, we have expanded the projects related data including information about sequence coverage, sequence version, BLAST/BLAT search possibilities. Also, many completed genomes can now directly be downloaded. There are several new search options as well as new results/analysis modules. In particular, the main changes are the following:
- The projects module has been extended to allow searching for the new projects meta data.
- Three new modules for the result section have been designed. One presents certain statistics based on the selected subset of species. Another, called "references", lists the project meta data sorted by species. The third module presents information about chromosome numbers and genome sizes. The genome data download has been integrated in the projects module.
- It is possible now to personalize diArk in certain aspects. Based on OpenID login users can save their search criteria or subscribe to our newsletter.
- Users can now install a diArk search-bar for their browser. This provides fast and easy access to diArk's species content.
2006
2006-12-13
We have updated the database. diArk now includes 415 species, 823 sequencing projects, and 248 publications. There is a Help page now that explains the use of diArk's search modules. We have also set up a list of FAQ's that will be extended as soon as further question rise.
2006-10-10
diArk goes online! We are proud to have finished all functionality-related programming, so we can launch the web-interface to diArk. Although we still discuss some functionality issues and we haven't included all data we consider to be useful, we feel it's time now to go public. The link list is far from being complete and we appologize to those we haven't mentioned yet. Version 1.0 is now available including 364 species, 742 sequencing projects, and 228 publications.
