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Johan den Dunnen receives HGVS award 2011-10-28
The HGVS award received by Johan den Dunnen During the recent HGVS meeting in Montreal, Canada, which was a sattelite meeting of the ICHG/ASHG 2011 meeting, Johan den Dunnen received the HGVS award for his work in the field of human genome variation in general, and more specifically for "the establishment of international mutation nomenclature standards and to celebrate the 1000th download of the LOVD software".

According to Johan, as stated on the award, the whole LOVD team is honoured through this award. "Although I received the award, I believe the honour is for the entire LOVD team, especially Ivo Fokkema, my right hand from day 1 on this project". When we just checked LOVD has now already been downloaded more than 2000 times!
To see a bigger picture of the award, click the small picture.

LOVD 2.0 build 33 released 2011-09-30
Today, LOVD 2.0-33 has been released. New features implemented, amongst others: Improved module system to allow LOVD to directly call a module's method; Added method in the Mutalyzer module that checks during submission if Mutalyzer still has a copy of LOVD's reference sequence on the server - if not, it reloads it. Bugs fixed, amongst others: LOVD was not installable on MySQL 5.5 or higher because MySQL changed its syntax; Fixed bug in the creation of BED files, introduced in 2.0-32; Fixed some problems with downloading and importing control characters.

Closes #50, #51.
See the changelog.
Download the new build.
LOVD modules included: Mutalyzer 1.2, reCAPTCHA 0.2, ShowMaxDBID 0.4
LOVD scripts included: ParseRefSeq 2.13, Reading Frame Checker 1.2, UploadGenBank 1.5
Manual version included: February 9nd, 2011.

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Last modified 2011/10/28 16:51:57 CEST

When using or discussing LOVD please refer to:
Fokkema IF, Taschner PE, Schaafsma GC, Celli J, Laros JF, den Dunnen JT (2011). LOVD v.2.0: the next generation in gene variant databases. Hum Mutat. 2011 May;32(5):557-63.

LOVD has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº 200754 - the GEN2PHEN project.
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Ing. Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema, Dr. Johan T. den Dunnen