Announcing an updated prokaryotic representative genomes collection with 706 new species!
An updated bacterial and archaeal representative genomes collection is available! A total of 16,105 assemblies among the 249,000 prokaryotic assemblies in RefSeq were selected to represent their respective species. The collection has grown by 3.7% since January 2022. A total of 706 species are represented for the first time. In addition, 186 species are represented … Continue reading Announcing an updated prokaryotic representative genomes collection with 706 new species! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - June 22, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) NCBI Taxonomy Nucleotide BLAST (blastn) Prokaryotic genome annotation RefSeq Source Type: news
Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022
Come visit NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB), July 13-16, taking place both in person in Madison, Wisconsin and virtually! We’ll be presenting talks and posters on the latest updates to the NCBI Datasets, BLAST, and Protein resources. You can also join us at … Continue reading Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022 →
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Source: NCBI Insights - June 16, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) CGR Datasets ElasticBLAST iCn3D Protein Source Type: news
June 15 Webinar: What ’s new with NCBI Virus?
Join us on June 15 , 2022 at 12PM US eastern time learn about the NCBI Virus resource – a community portal for viral sequence data that has been important in supporting SARS-CoV-2 research and management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Enhancements to NCBI Virus that support these efforts include: SARS-CoV-2 specific filters, a dedicated web … Continue reading June 15 Webinar: What’s new with NCBI Virus? →
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Source: NCBI Insights - June 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New NCBI Virus SARS-CoV-2 Viruses Webinars Source Type: news
Come see NCBI at the ASM Microbe Conference 2022
The American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe conference is back, and scheduled to take place in-person, June 9th-13th in Washington, D.C. NCBI staff member Dr. Michael Feldgarden will be recognized by ASM with an award for his research. Other NCBI staff will present posters on NCBI resources and will also be available at our booth … Continue reading Come see NCBI at the ASM Microbe Conference 2022 →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Antibiotic resistance Assembly GenBank Genome annotation Genome assemblies Genomics NCBI Pathogen Detection NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) NCBI Taxonomy Source Type: news
Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) for assembly validation
Validating genome assemblies submitted to GenBank using ANI based workflow Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) analysis is a useful tool to verify taxonomic identities in prokaryotic genomes. As part of the NCBI bacterial genome submission process, GenBank performs ANI analyses to compare submitted prokaryotic genome assemblies against reference data generated from type strains. You can learn … Continue reading Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) for assembly validation →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Genome assemblies Prokaryotic genome annotation Source Type: news
Monkeypox virus: Complete genome from the current outbreak now available in GenBank
The first complete genome sequence of the current monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak (isolate name MPXV_USA_2022_MA001) is now available with accession ON563414 in GenBank, a public database of DNA sequences hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Several cases of monkeypox have been identified in geographically widespread … Continue reading Monkeypox virus: Complete genome from the current outbreak now available in GenBank →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 26, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank NCBI Virus Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Sequences Source Type: news
New in RAPT: Better taxonomic assignment and GO annotation
We are excited to announce two improvements to the Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT), which allows you to assemble genomic reads for bacterial or archaeal isolates and annotate their genes at the click of a button. Improved taxonomic assignment Now RAPT verifies the scientific name you provide with the reads, and corrects it … Continue reading New in RAPT: Better taxonomic assignment and GO annotation →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Gene Ontology (GO) NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) Protein Family Model Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) RefSeq SKESA Source Type: news
Announcing Human Annotation Release 110
The annotation of human assemblies GRCh38.p14 and T2T-CHM13v2.0 We are happy to announce the first de novo annotation of human T2T-CHM13v2.0, the gap-less assembly generated by the T2T Consortium, and the full re-annotation of the human reference assembly, GRCh38.p14. We hope the results will serve both the needs of those eager to explore newly sequenced regions of the genome, including … Continue reading Announcing Human Annotation Release 110 →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 23, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Genome annotation Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) Reference genome RefSeq rRNA Source Type: news
Gapless Telomere to Telomere human genome (T2T-CHM13) now available
On April 1, 2022, Science published the first complete sequence of a human genome, known as T2T-CHM13. This notable scientific achievement comes two decades after the first human genome release from the Human Genome Project and offers an in situ look at biologically important regions, such as centromeres, telomeres, and segmental duplications, that were previously … Continue reading Gapless Telomere to Telomere human genome (T2T-CHM13) now available →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New BioProject Datasets Eukaryotic genome annotation Human genome NCBI Genome Remapping Service (NCBI Remap) RefSeq Source Type: news
NLM Curation at Scale Workshop: Recorded webinars now available
NLM’s virtual Curation at Scale Workshop held March 28 – March 30, 2022, brought together biocurators, developers of automated curation systems, and others to learn about the current status of biomedical data curation, share research and challenges, and discuss the implementation of advanced computational techniques in scientific data curation. In addition to curation, participants discussed … Continue reading NLM Curation at Scale Workshop: Recorded webinars now available →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Data curation Source Type: news
NLM Curation at Scale Workshop: Recorded webinars now available!
NLM’s virtual Curation at Scale Workshop held March 28 – March 30, 2022, brought together biocurators, developers of automated curation systems, and others to learn about the current status of biomedical data curation, to share research and challenges, and to discuss the implementation of advanced computational techniques in scientific data curation. In addition to curation, … Continue reading NLM Curation at Scale Workshop: Recorded webinars now available! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Data curation Source Type: news
RefSeq Release 212 is available!
RefSeq Release 212 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 May 2, 2022, and contains 314,915,153 records, including 229,417,182 proteins, 44,805,833 RNAs, and sequences from 119,373 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset … Continue reading RefSeq Release 212 is available! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 9, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Eukaryotic genome annotation Human genome RefSeq Source Type: news
NCBI Posters at the Biology of Genomes Meeting
May 10-14, 2022 We are looking forward to the Biology of Genomes meeting, which will focus on “DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics and complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.” NCBI will present three posters to highlight our Comparative … Continue reading NCBI Posters at the Biology of Genomes Meeting →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 3, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New CGR dbGaP Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA) Source Type: news
New ClusteredNR database: faster searches and more informative BLAST results
Reduced redundancy. Faster searches. More diverse proteins and organisms in your BLAST results. Check out our new ClusteredNR database – derived from the default BLAST protein nr database by clustering sequences at 90% identity / 90% length (details below). Get quicker results and access to information about distribution of your hits across a wider range … Continue reading New ClusteredNR database: faster searches and more informative BLAST results →
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Source: NCBI Insights - May 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) CGR Homologs Protein BLAST (BLASTp) Source Type: news
Logging into your My NCBI account is now easier, faster and more secure!
As of June 2022, you will be required to login using a 3rd-party option. As we announced previously, beginning June 2022, you will no longer be able to log into your My NCBI account with your My NCBI username and password. We launched our Password Retirement Wizard last summer to help you link a 3rd-party … Continue reading Logging into your My NCBI account is now easier, faster and more secure! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - April 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New My Bibliography My NCBI SciENcv Source Type: news
