Find your favorite gene in aligned assemblies!
New search feature in the Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) You asked, we listened! We are pleased to announce that you can now search for a gene in NCBI’s Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) and navigate directly to its location in the viewer. Maybe you’re studying a particular gene or gene family, and you want to see if … Continue reading Find your favorite gene in aligned assemblies! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Source Type: news

Join NCBI at PAG 30
San Diego, January 13-18, 2023  NCBI is looking forward to seeing you in person at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG 30), January 13-18, 2023 in San Diego, California.   We’re especially excited to share our recent efforts on the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR), a multi-year National Library of Medicine (NLM) project to … Continue reading Join NCBI at PAG 30 → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Datasets Eukaryotic genome annotation GenBank Source Type: news

Announcing the NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Variant Calling Pipeline and Related Data Products
Still waiting for an analysis pipeline that can uniformly process raw sequence data produced by a variety of sequencing platforms? Your wait is over! Announcing the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Calling Pipeline, which is now operational and optimized to provide support for multiple sequencing platforms including, Illumina, Oxford Nanopore, and PacBio. This new pipeline can make allele … Continue reading Announcing the NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Variant Calling Pipeline and Related Data Products → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 1, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New SARS-CoV-2 Sequence Viewer STRIDES Source Type: news

New Proximity Search Feature Available in PubMed
PubMed, a free National Library of Medicine (NLM) resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature, has a brand-new feature! With proximity search, you can now search for multiple terms appearing in any order within a specified distance of one another in the [Title] or [Title/Abstract] fields.  Proximity search adds another … Continue reading New Proximity Search Feature Available in PubMed → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 30, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New PubMed Source Type: news

Updated PubMed E-Utilities Now Live!
We’ve launched the updated version of E-Utilities API for PubMed. Thank you to all who tested the updated API on the test server and provided feedback.    This updated version now aligns the functions of the E-utilities with the web version of PubMed released in 2020. For example, search results returned by the updated ESearch E-utility will now match those … Continue reading Updated PubMed E-Utilities Now Live! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 22, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Source Type: news

NEW! Streamlining ClinVar Submission of Assertion Criteria
ClinVar is a freely available submission-driven database for information about genomic variation and its relationship to human health. ClinVar holds more than 1.5 million variants, and is powered by submitters around the world, who provide us with their assessments, the evidence, and the criteria they use to guide their interpretation process and come to their … Continue reading NEW! Streamlining ClinVar Submission of Assertion Criteria → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 18, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New ClinVar Source Type: news

Re-evaluating the BLAST Nucleotide Database (nt)
The ongoing sequencing revolution has resulted in exponential growth of the NCBI BLAST databases. The default BLAST nucleotide database (nt), the most popular Web BLAST database, is currently 903 billion letters and continues to grow rapidly – doubling in size in the last year. This growth will cause longer search times, reduced capacity, and more … Continue reading Re-evaluating the BLAST Nucleotide Database (nt) → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 17, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Nucleotide BLAST (blastn) Source Type: news

RefSeq Release 215
RefSeq release 215 is now available online, from the FTP site and through NCBI’s Entrez programming utilities, E-utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of November 7, 2022, and contains 335,372,031 records, including 244,583,657 proteins and sequences from 125,116 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also … Continue reading RefSeq Release 215 → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 15, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) Eukaryotic genome annotation RefSeq Source Type: news

Prokaryotic phylum name changes coming soon!
Beginning in the first week of January 2023, NCBI Taxonomy will initiate changes to prokaryote phylum names in accordance with the recent inclusion of rank ‘phylum’ in the International Code of Nomenclature for Prokaryotes (ICNP). We first announced this update that involves changes to 42 NCBI taxa about a year ago. We will change several names … Continue reading Prokaryotic phylum name changes coming soon! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 14, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New NCBI Taxonomy Prokaryotes Source Type: news

New and improved SciENcv experience starting January 2023!
Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is an electronic system that helps you assemble professional information needed to apply for federal grant applications. Starting January 2023, we are introducing a new and improved SciENcv experience! SciENcv helps you gather and compile information on expertise, employment, education, and professional accomplishments. You can use SciENcv to create … Continue reading New and improved SciENcv experience starting January 2023! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 10, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New SciENcv Source Type: news

Submit your data to dbGaP in 3 easy steps!
Do you have human genetic data from a large-scale study? Submit your data to NCBI’s Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) to contribute to meaningful discoveries about health. dbGaP contains data from more than 2.8 million study participants who have provided over 3.3 million molecular samples. How do I submit data to dbGaP? Step 1: … Continue reading Submit your data to dbGaP in 3 easy steps! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) Source Type: news

CCDS Release 24
An updated dataset of human protein-coding regions from the Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) collaboration Are you interested in a set of high-quality human coding regions (CDS) with equivalent annotation in NCBI’s RefSeq and EMBL-EBI’s (European Molecular Biology Laboratories-European Bioinformatics Institute) Ensembl annotations? Check out the new CCDS Release 24! This CCDS set was generated by … Continue reading CCDS Release 24 → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) Human genome Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) RefSeq Source Type: news

New annotations in RefSeq!
In August and September, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released thirty-eight new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: Adelges cooleyi (spruce gall adelgid) Aethina tumida (small hive beetle) Anopheles aquasalis (mosquito) Anopheles maculipalpis (mosquito) Anthonomus grandis grandis (boll weevil) Aphis gossypii (cotton aphid) Bactrocera neohumeralis (fly) Bombus affinis (bee) Bombus huntii (bee) Cataglyphis hispanica (ant) Cygnus atratus … Continue reading New annotations in RefSeq! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - October 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Datasets Eukaryotic genome annotation Genome Data Viewer (GDV) RefSeq Source Type: news

dbGaP: Data and analyses from millions of study participants, samples, and trillions of genotypes!
Leveraging the power of big data to make meaningful discoveries about health Are you familiar with the well-known Framingham Heart Study, a multi-generation study of residents of Framingham, Massachusetts begun in 1948? Much of what is now known about the impact of genetics, lifestyle, and diet on cardiovascular health and disease has come from this research … Continue reading dbGaP: Data and analyses from millions of study participants, samples, and trillions of genotypes! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - October 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) GRAF-pop Phenotype Genotype Integrator (PheGenI) Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Source Type: news

Announcing GenBank release 252.0
Now over 3 billion records! GenBank release 252.0 (10/17/2022) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 20.35 trillion bases and 3.10 billion records. The current release has 240,539,282 traditional records containing 1,562,963,366,851 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 2,167,900,306 WGS records containing 18,231,960,808,828 base pairs of sequence data, 574,020,080 … Continue reading Announcing GenBank release 252.0 → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - October 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Source Type: news