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Dr. Geddes, Professor and Director of the Institute of Fluorescence and member of the Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence (MARCE) Diagnostics Research Program, received the Daily Records' "Innovator of the Year" award on October 15, 2008. The award was given to Dr. Geddes for his MARCE project on a 100-copy, 20-second Anthrax diagnostic sensing platform.

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The MARCE Bioinformatics Online Tutorial is now available! The tutorial consists of an introduction to VBI, an introduction to multi-faceted bioinformatics analysis, and a review of key theory and tools for bioinformatics research, including Search, Alignment, Phylogeny, Hidden Markov Models, Orthologous Clusters and Genome Comparison. The course presents the available bioinformatics resources and tools, using Francisella tularensis as the example organism, and contains exercises to give the user some hands-on experience.
To access the course, please visit the following website ( http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/cbyrd/bioinformatics_tutorial/).

The website contains a description of the course, as well as instructions for gaining access to the course.