On May 12, the US Patent and Trademark Office awarded CytoGnomix a trademark for:

MutationForecaster®

 

Dr. Peter Rogan’s laboratory at the University of Western Ontario will present:

 Discovery of Primary, Cofactor, and Novel Transcription Factor Binding Site Motifs by Recursive, Thresholded Entropy Minimization

by Ruipeng Lu 1, Eliseos Mucaki 2, and Peter Rogan 1,2,3.    Departments of (1) Computer Science and (2)Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, and (3)Cytognomix Inc., London ON

at Compute Ontario (abstract), Conestoga College, Cambridge Ontario, Canada. The presentation is in Room A2107 at 13:55 at the Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

Dr. Joan Knoll, Chief Scientific Officer of Cytognomix, will present:

Localized, Structural Differences in Condensation of Homologous Metaphase Chromosomes and the Underlying Mechanism

at the 53rd Annual Great Lakes Chromosome Conference at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Cytognomix has sold an annual subscription to MutationForecaster, our comprehensive solution for next generation sequencing based mutation interpretation, to a hospital in Toronto, Ontario Canada. This customer was a previous subscriber to the Automated Site and Exon Definition Server, which is embedded in MutationForecaster and no longer available as standalone software.

Cytognomix’s standalone version of the Shannon mRNA splicing mutation analysis pipeline is distributed through Qiagen CLC bio as a plug-in for their Genomics Workbench and Server software.This product was recently purchased by Dr. Hidetaka Eguchi at the Research Center for Genomic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan.