VoSeq: delete voucher button (new feature)

Dear VoSeq users,


Little by little we are doing some progress on VoSeq's TODO list.

We have released a new micro-version of VoSeq: 1.3.1
In this version, we have included a feature to delete records. You will find a "Delete me" button in voucher pages under the "Administrator" interface. If you click the button, VoSeq will issue a dialog asking for confirmation to delete all traces of that voucher record (including its associated sequences, primers and will remove them from taxon sets).

Use the button with care!

You can download VoSeq from github: https://github.com/carlosp420/VoSeq/downloads

Peña C, & Malm T (2012). VoSeq: a voucher and DNA sequence web application. PloS one, 7 (6) PMID: 22720030

PLoS Altmetric API will change soon

Just got an email from PLoS ALM Team saying that they are updating their API for their Article Level Metrics (ALM; Altmetric) tools.


The Almetric software shows "citation" data on scientific papers harvested from social networks such as Twitter, Scientific Blogs, Citeulike and Mendeley. They deliver this content via their very easy API.


You could also visit their website http://altmetric.com/ and enter a DOI number for your favorite paper and see how many citations from social network it has. Also you can see the "hot" papers that have the most number of citations so are the one that "everybody" is reading right now.

I am using the altmetric API for my website and noticed that there seems to be a mix up in the data that was harvested for one of our recently published papers:


Peña C, Malm T (2012) VoSeq: A Voucher and DNA Sequence Web Application. PLoS ONE 7: e39071. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039071

For some reason Altmetric started to collect data from their announcement when their released Altmetric:

You can see the Altmetric API and changes in their github profile:
https://github.com/articlemetrics/alm/wiki/API

Voseq, web database for molecular phylogenetics

• Are you working in molecular phylogenetics? Do you and your lab produce lots of DNA sequences. 
• Are you tired of trying to find your sequences among several text files and Excel sheets? 
• Do you wish there was a easy-to-use database to keep track of sequences and their associated voucher specimens? 
• Did you ever wished there was a system to create molecular datasets for analysis in PAUP or MrBayes by just a few clicks of a mouse? 

If the answers are "yes", then VoSeq might be for you. VoSeq is a voucher and DNA sequence web application database aimed for people working in molecular phylogenetics.

Main features of VoSeq:

• Keep track of your sequences and associated voucher specimens. 
• You upload your data to VoSeq and the back-end relational database will allow you to easily search, fetch, update, etc your DNA sequences or voucher data. 
• With a few clicks, you can create ready-to-run datasets in NEXUS, Phylip, TNT formats, as well as FASTA files for submission to GenBank. 
• Use the BLAST capabilities to find similar sequences among those you have, or BLAST against GenBank. 
• Automated integration with public web services such as Flickr (for posting your voucher photos) and Yahoo Maps (for plotting voucher localities). 
• You can install it in your computer for private use, or set it up in a shared server for collaborative work via the internet. 
• and more. 

The publication describing VoSeq came out recently:

Peña, C. & Malm, T. (2012). VoSeq: a Voucher and DNA Sequence Web Application PLOS ONE, 7 (6) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039071

• You can check out a test installation of VoSeq with sample data here: http://www.nymphalidae.net/VoSeq/
• The full documentation is here: http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/cpena/VoSeq_docu.html 
• Download from here: https://github.com/carlosp420/VoSeq 
• VoSeq is actively being developed and if you have questions or need help using it. Let us know! 

Carlos Peña: mycalesis@gmail.com 
Tobias Malm: tobemalm@gmail.com