Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the D. purpureum web portal (http://genomes.dictybase.org/purpureum 
) is now available!
* Access the D. purpureum unassembled contigs via a main page (http://genomes.dictybase.org/purpureum/contig/page/1 
) that contains links to the Genome Browser.
* The D. purpureum Genome Browser contains tracks of D. discoideum  
blast hits that link directly to the dictyBase gene page.
* The BLAST server (http://dictybase.org/tools/blast) is now  
universal, meaning databases from all available genomes are accessible  
from one and the same page.
* Download D. purpureum sequences and data (http://genomes.dictybase.org/purpureum/downloads 
).
* Search the D. purpureum database for gene IDs (e.g. DPU_G0051556),  
sequence IDs (e.g. DPU0052289), or JGI protein IDs (e.g. 146844).
* Direct access to the D. purpureum database is provided by a link on  
the dictyBase front page or or from the blue menu top bar under 'Links'.
* For D. discoideum, we added dictyExpress RNAseq links under the  
Expression section, see an example on the mdhA gene page (http://dictybase.org/gene/mdhA 
).

Enjoy!

The dictyBase Team
http://dictybase.org