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1 The paper "PicXAA-R: efficient structural alignment of multiple RNA sequences using a greedy approach" (by S. M.E. Sahraeian and B.-J. Yoon) won the Best Paper Award at the 9th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2011), held in Incheon, Korea, Jan 11-14, 2011.
2 PicXAA-Web, a web-based multiple sequence alignment tool developed based on PicXAA and PicXAA-R is now available. Visit [PicXAA-Web] to access the PicXAA web-server.
3 PicXAA & PicXAA-R, probabilistic non-progressive multiple protein/DNA/RNA sequence alignment algorithms are now available for download. Visit [PicXAA] to download the software and its source code.
4 PCSHMM, a software for finding structural alignment of RNAs (including pseudoknots) is now available.
- Visit [PCSHMM] to download the software.

Announcements

1 Special Issue on Sequence and Genome Analysis - EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
The aim of this special issue is to present the recent advances and existing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms and applications in the broad area of sequence and genome analysis. [Call for Paper]

* Lead Guest Editor: Erchin Serpedin (Texas A&M)
* Guest Editors: Xiaodong Wang (Columbia Univ), Xiaodong Cai (Univ of Miami), Byung-Jun Yoon (Texas A&M)
* Submission deadline: January 15, 2012 May 31, 2012 (extended deadline)

2 Special Issue on Genomic Signal Processing (GSP) - Journal of Biological Systems (JBS)
The aim of this special issue is to present the latest research advances in the broad area of GSP. Detailed information about the special issue can be found in the following CFP: [Call for Paper]

* Lead Guest Editor: Edward R. Dougherty (Texas A&M)
* Guest Editors: Byung-Jun Yoon (Texas A&M), Xiaoning Qian (Univ. South Florida), Ranadip Pal (Texas Tech)
* Submission deadline: July 1, 2012
* Journal Website: http://www.worldscinet.com/jbs/


Last update: Feb.20.2012