ANGIS

The Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) provided access for biologists to a comprehensive system of bioinformatics software, databases, documentation, training and support, on a subscription basis. While clearly targeted at Australian researchers, the tools ANGIS provided were available online to investigators worldwide. ANGIS was closed at the end of 2009.^[1]

Tools

BioManager was the main resource ANGIS provided. Although ANGIS/Biomanager was closed 30 November 2009, Prof Peter Reeves of the University of Sydney continues to host an implementation of BioManager

ANGIS began as a project at the University of Sydney in 1990, originally the Sydney University Sequence Analysis Interface (SUSAI) as a multi-disciplinary effort spearheaded by Trevor Cole, Alex Reisner and Peter Reeves. One year later in 1991, SUSAI became ANGIS through the formation of the Australian Genomic Information Center (AGIC), a government sanctioned research center.^[4] In March 2007, oversight for ANGIS was passed to the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia within the newly formed Sydney Bioinformatics. ANGIS appears to have ended as an entity with the closing of Sydney Bioinformatics on 31 December 2010.^[5]

Teaching

ANGIS was deeply involved in post-graduate training courses and workshops. General Bioinformatic application workshops, along with specialist workshops in proteomics, microarray, database searching and phylogenetics were held in Sydney and elsewhere in the country. In-house training courses in these areas ranged in length from 1–4 days.

BioManager has been used as the main Bioinformatics training tools for Australian and other international universities^[6] and academic subscriptions to ANGIS/BioManager included teaching logins for student use.

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