GOLD NEWS

July 24, 2010

Blogger added for providing information on new GOLD developments and analysis tools.

May 10, 2010

RSS Feeds added for providing information on new and updated genome projects daily.

November 13, 2009

GOLD @ Nucleic Acids Research

October 21, 2009

1,000 Complete Microbial Genome Projects Mark!

Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7, DSM 12094 is the 1,000 completely sequenced microbial genome

October 1st, 2009

Daily updates of the dbase implemented

September 9, 2009

GOLD v 3.0 is released. The new features include

- New improved Search Page, and Advanced Search page. Metadata search and configurable search are coming soon

- New search result tables, with the option of re-ordering of the columns

- New database entry point [gold.cgi page], with the addition of Google Earth map, and links to Statistics tables for Project Type, Sequencing Status and Phylogenetic distribution pages.

Coming up soon in extended v 3.0:

- Metadata Search and Custom (SQL) search

- Automatically generated graphical statistics

- Configurable search result pages

- Graphical presentation of Metadata on search results

July 20th, 2009

GOLD reaches tracking of 5000 projects.

June 15th, 2009

New GOLD CARD pages implemented [e.g. Gc00938]

June 1st, 2009

GOLD metadata fields increase to 104. All metadata available for download

April 10, 2009

DOE-JGI is the first sequencing center reaching 1,000 genome projects

September 14, 2008

GOLD reaches tracking of 4000 projects.

April 20, 2008

GOLD Search page reorganization, new metadata search fields added

January 20, 2008

GOLD Statistics page updated. Statistics data available for download

January 12, 2008

1. New Metadata fields are available for download: oxygen requirement, cell shape, cell arrangement, motility, sporulation,  energy source, temperature range, and salinity.

2. The new Metadata fields are also added in the search page

January 1, 2008

GOLD @ Nucleic Acids Research 36, D475-D479

October 1, 2007

GOLD reaches tracking of 3000 projects.

September 15, 2007

Metagenome Project Classification Search function is now available in the Search Page

September 1, 2007

All Archaeal and Bacterial Genome Projects in GOLD are now also displayed on a hierarchical tree based on NCBI's taxonomy. The Archaeal and the Bacterial Trees are available on the front page of GOLD.

August 15, 2007

Reorganization of all Metagenomic Projects (GOLD Metagenome Ontology document):

1. Standardize Metagenone Project Name

2. Implement Metagenome Project Classification (analogous to the Taxonomy of isolate Genomes)

3. Implement Project and Sample information

August 1, 2007

New GOLD Fields are available for download: (a) pH, (b) Temperature, (c) Samples, (d) Project Status

July 15, 2007

1. New GOLD Fields are available for download: (a) Sequencing Method, (b) Sequencing depth and (c) StrainInfo.

2. Additional fields include 5 taxonomic levels from NCBI's taxonomy (SuperKingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family and Genus)

3. Mapping of GOLD_STAMPS to StrainInfo IDs added

4. Ecotype has been renamed to Habitat in compliance with MIGS (Minimum Information About a Genome Sequence)

June 15, 2007

In the Search Page: select GEBA under Relevance to see the current status of the project.

GEBA: Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea is a collaboration project between DOE-JGI and DSMZ aiming to fill-in the gaps of the Phylogenetic tree.

February 19, 2007

GOLD projects connect to the Genome Catalogue (GCat_IDs).

The links are available in the GOLD CARD pages and from the downloadable goldtable.txt

February 17, 2007

GOLD projects connect to the Greengenes database.

The links are available in the GOLD CARD pages and from the downloadable goldtable.txt

January 23, 2007

Complete and Published Genomes reach 500

November 9, 2006

GOLD-STAMP Pages are generated for all projects and links to the GOLD-STAMP IDs in every project

November 1, 2006

Entrez PID is added when available, and also provided through the downloadable goldtable.txt

October 25, 2006

The field "COUNTRY" for each sequencing project is released

September 25, 2006

The new GOLD user interface is released

April 1, 2006

GOLD hits 2000 genome projects as it completes 9 years of history

March 9, 2006

All Data in GOLD can now be easily downloaded on excel spreadsheet from the front page (goldtable.txt)

March 1, 2006

In agreement with the proposal of abandoning the term "Prokaryotes" we have split what used to be Prokaryotic Ongoing projects to Archaeal and Bacterial Ongoing Projects

January 1, 2006

GOLD v2.0 @Nucleic Acids Research 34, D332-334

November 25, 2005

HOT PICKS on NetWatch @Science 310, issue 5752

October 20, 2005

Metagenome Projects are added on GOLD

August 20, 2005

GOLD v 2.0 is released, with the addition of datatypes such as Phenotypes, Ecotypes, and Project relevance

August 20, 2002

GOLD is transferred to IMBB, Greece

August 15, 2002

GOLD moves to each new location at genomesonline.org

July 18, 2002

GOLD powered by Perl CGI scripts and Postgress RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)

May, 2002

on WEB WATCH @ Nature Reviews Genetics 3, 324

January, 2002

GOLD hits 500 Genome projects

December, 2001

Year-End Top 100 Sites @Genetic Engineering

May, 2001

Netscan Pick @ Inside-LifeScience

January, 2001

Nucleic Acids Research 29, 126-127

December, 2000

Web Alert @Current Opinions in Genetics and Developmnet

July 10, 2000

Links2Go "Key Resource" Award

June 9, 2000

HOT PICKS on NetWatch @ Science 288, 1841

April 5, 2000

 GOLD moves to each New Location @ Integrated Genomics

March 24, 2000

March, 2000

Shared Computer Facility Newsletter @ The Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University

February 25, 2000

Web Site of the Week @The Rowland Institute for Science

February 24, 2000

November 9, 1999

MolBio.org News

October, 1999

Microbial Web Sites @ORNL

September, 1999

Bioinformatics 15, 773

February, 1999

UIUC Web Sites Include Microbial Information @ORNL

December, 1998

Web alert @ Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 8, 611

September, 1998

Microbial Genomes Monitor mirrored @EBI

April, 1997

Microbial Genomes Monitor web page initiates @UIUC