NCBI ’s Virus Variation Resource Enhancements Include Standardized Search Criteria
NCBI ’s Virus Variation resource makes it easy to find genome and protein sequences for a number of viruses – no more stumbling through multiple synonyms to find what you need. Now you can search using standardized biological criteria and intuitive…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 30, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Dengue Ebolavirus influenza MERS Rotavirus variation viruses West Nile Zika Source Type: news
Find old NCBI News stories in the Archive!
Looking for an old NCBI News story? Check the NCBI News Archive on the Bookshelf. You can browse or search the archive for every News posting we ’ve made – in our history! (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: Quick Tips Source Type: news
June 7th NCBI Minute: PubChem: A source of laboratory chemical safety information
On June 7, 2017, NCBI staff will show you how to use PubChem ’s Laboratory Chemical Safety Summary (LCSS) to find the most relevant chemical safety information including flammability, toxicity, exposure limits and symptoms, first aid, handling and clean up. Date…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New chemical safety laboratory safety NCBI Minute pubchem webinars Source Type: news
New releases from NCBI: IgBLAST 1.7.0 and Sequence Viewer 3.21
IgBLAST 1.7.0 release A new version of IgBLAST is now available on FTP, with the following new features: Specify whether overlapping nucleotides at VDJ junctions are allowed in matching V, D, and J genes. Set a custom J gene mismatch…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New IgBLAST immunoglobin nucleotide Protein sequences Source Type: news
dbGaP 10th Anniversary Symposium June 9, 2017
dbGaP (the NIH database of Genotypes and Phenotypes) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year! We are proud to support over 850 studies and 1.6 million samples. We invite you to join us at the dbGaP 10th Anniversary Symposium to…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 22, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Alzheimer's disease bioinformatics breast cancer collaborative research dbgap GWAS NIAGADS NIH PhenX SRA Source Type: news
Retiring and replacing the BLink protein similarity service
NCBI is discontinuing the BLink protein similarity service effective immediately. BLink provided graphical access to related proteins from protein records in the Entrez system. Because of the increasing volume of data in the protein database, BLink has become less useful…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New BLink SmartBLAST Source Type: news
QuickBLASTP adds pre-processing to BLAST search
QuickBLASTP, an accelerated version of BLASTP, adds a new pre-processing step to the non-redundant (nr) protein database. In a matter of seconds, QuickBLASTP will find approximately 97% of…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New BLASTp protein BLAST QuickBLASTP Source Type: news
RefSeq release 82 now public
RefSeq release 82 is accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI ’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of May 8, 2017 and contains 127,098,289 records, including 84,756,971 proteins, 18,901,573 RNAs, and sequences from…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New non-human variant data prokaryotic genome annotation RefSeq Source Type: news
Phasing out support for non-human genome organism data in dbSNP and dbVar
This blog post is directed toward people who use dbSNP and dbVar, particularly those who submit non-human data to the two databases. dbSNP and dbVar archive, process, display and report information related to germline and somatic variations from multiple species.…Continue reading→ (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New dbSNP dbVar non-human variant data variation Source Type: news
Eleven eukaryotic annotations added to RefSeq in April 2017
In April, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released new annotations in RefSeq for the following eleven organisms: (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI to assist with NYGC Genomics Hackathon June 19-21
From June 19-21, 2017, the NCBI will assist in a bioinformatics hackathon at the New York Genome Center (NYGC). This hackathon will focus on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, proteomics and metadata. To apply for this hackathon, complete this application (approximately 10 minutes to complete). Applications are due Monday, May 22, 2017 by 5 PM ET. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 219.0 is available via FTP
GenBank release 219.0 (4/14/2017) has 200,877,884 traditional records containing 231,824,951,552 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 451,840,147 WGS records containing 2,035,032,639,807 base pairs of sequence data, 165,068,542 TSA records containing 149,038,907,599 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 1,438,349 TLS records containing 636,923,295 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
May 10th NCBI Minute: How to Locate and Use Human Genomes and Annotations from NCBI
In two weeks, NCBI staff will show you how to quickly find and download human genome annotations from both the web and the command line for incorporation into your workflows. We will also show you how to convert the accessions in these files to those used in other bioinformatics databases, as well as how to visualize these annotations on our Genome Data Viewer. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 1, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 26th NCBI Minute: Medical Genetics Summaries on the NCBI Bookshelf - a pharmacogenomics resource for clinicians
Next Wednesday, April 26, 2017, NCBI staff will introduce the Medical Genetics Summaries, a growing collection of reviews available on the NCBI Bookshelf. Each chapter of this book highlights the impact of genetic variations on response to drugs (pharmacogenomics). By the end of this NCBI Minute, you will be able to use the Medical Genetics Summaries to find information about a particular drug, including known impacts of genetic variation on drug response (efficacy, toxicity, side effects) and identify actionable information, including information about relevant genetic testing and how to interpret the test results in orde...
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 19, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Maize (Zea mays) genome annotation release 101 is now available!
A new maize (Zea mays) genome annotation has been produced by the RefSeq eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline. In Annotation Release 101 a total of 47,446 genes were annotated, including 37,380 that code for proteins. This data is now available for download and can be explored in the Genome Data Viewer, with BLAST, and in the Gene database. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 12, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
