Firstly, we’ve redesigned the FuncNet site, which you’ve probably noticed, unless you’re reading this via RSS. Hope you like it.

Secondly, we’ve added a new suite of predictors using a method called GOSS. This is a GO-based semantic similarity measure, like engineDB, but allows individual queries by the three GO subtrees: biological process (BP), cellular component (CC) and molecular function (MF).

Thirdly, we’ve expanded the section of the site dedicated to human spindle protein prediction, with a new prediction service called DORA-Spindle (DORA = Domain Over-Representation Analysis). This spots proteins containing domains which also appear in known spindle proteins. The FuncNet-SpindleP integration package has now been replaced with a new version called just FuncNet-Spindle, which queries FuncNet, SpindleP and DORA-Spindle in parallel and integrates the results. See the spindle prediction page for more details.