News Archive
21.07.2008 July 21st 2008
Our third and final factsheet with illustrations of the GMS, as well as two new software tools developed by the MetaFunctions team can now be downloaded[more]
29.10.2007 October 29th 2007
MetaLook, our 3D visualisation software for marine ecological genomics, is now available at:http://www.megx.net/metalook
See also the MetaLook publication (open access)
19.10.2007 October 19th, 2007
Update the Genomes Mapserver. The 2.1 version is now publicly available.
New features:
- Improved environmental data coverage for coastal samples based on new interpolation functions.
- New data layer describing oceanic regions and their limits.
- Internal database structure optimizations.
- Metadata module describing the origin and processing of worldwide environmental data.
- Different levels of map quality for e.g. use in publications. ...[more]
01.07.2007 July 2007
MPI scientists visited colleagues from the CAMERA initiative during the Metagenomics 2007 conference in San Diego. The MetaLook software was tried out on their OptiPortal (more on talks given and posters preseted can be found in our publications/conference pages)[more]
08.05.2007 May 8-10th 2007
Our project manager Dr. Johanna Wesnigk presented a poster on:
Innovation Through Dissemination and Exploitation of EC Project Results – Best Practice Examples from Marine Research including information on MetaFunctions
at the Lisbon to Leipzig Conference on sustainable development held by the German Eu presidency in Leipzig, Germany in May. You can download a pdf version of the poster under "Publications" "Conferences"[more]
02.05.2007 May 2nd 2007
Prof. F O Glöckner moderated a round table discussion on blue biotechnology as a satellite event of the European Maritime Policy Conference in Bremen, Germany, which resulted in a press article (in German, in the Süddeutsche Zeitung) on blue biotechnology and can be downloaded here: 
Blaue-Apotheke.pdf...[more]