Updated prokaryotic representative genomes collection includes 685 new species!
We are happy to announce an updated bacterial and archaeal representative genomes collection. The current collection contains a total of 15,507 assemblies selected from 236,000 prokaryotic RefSeq assemblies to represent their respective species. The collection has grown by five percent since August 2021. A total of 685 species are represented for the first time. In … Continue reading Updated prokaryotic representative genomes collection includes 685 new species! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - February 7, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Nucleotide BLAST (blastn) Protein BLAST (BLASTp) RefSeq Representative genome Source Type: news
Feb 16 Webinar: accelerating your alignments in the Cloud with ElasticBLAST
Join us on February 16, 2022 at 12 PM US eastern time to learn about ElasticBLAST, a a new tool that runs your BLAST searches on cloud hardware, using the standard BLAST command-line package. You will hear about the benefits of ElasticBLAST, which include speed and ease of use. You will also see some practical … Continue reading Feb 16 Webinar: accelerating your alignments in the Cloud with ElasticBLAST →
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Source: NCBI Insights - February 3, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Cloud computing ElasticBLAST Source Type: news
NLM announces rescheduled Curation at Scale Workshop
Data curation plays a critical role in today’s biomedical research and ensures scientific data will be accessible for future research and reuse. In the time of pandemics, the need to get scientific information to researchers, medical personnel, and the public as quickly as possible is greater than ever before. In response to the need for … Continue reading NLM announces rescheduled Curation at Scale Workshop →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Conferences Data curation Data science Genome Workshop Source Type: news
Ten reasons to submit to ClinVar
Wondering why 2,100 submitters from 83 countries have deposited more than 1.9 million records of their latest variation information in ClinVar? Curious about why genetic counselors, physicians, researchers, and so many others enthusiastically use data for nearly 1.2 million unique variants in ClinVar? Thinking about becoming part of this global community and sharing your knowledge … Continue reading Ten reasons to submit to ClinVar →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 28, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New ClinVar Human variant data Medical genetics Submissions Source Type: news
Updated PMC Launching Soon!
In the coming weeks, we will be launching an updated PMC website with a modern design. You can try the updated version on PMC Labs now, and it will become the default design of the PMC website following launch. Be sure to check the banner at the top of the PMC website for updates on an exact cutover date. … Continue reading Updated PMC Launching Soon! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New PubMed Central (PMC) PubMed Labs Source Type: news
Try out the new gene table from NCBI Datasets!
Announcing a new feature in NCBI Datasets: the gene table. To access it, start from the human species page (Figure 1) and click View all genes to view a table of all human genes. Figure 1: Human species page. Click “View all genes” to view a table of human genes. You can filter the table results by … Continue reading Try out the new gene table from NCBI Datasets! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Datasets Gene Genome Data Viewer (GDV) Source Type: news
Venturing beyond the genes: New RefSeq Functional Elements publication!
If you’re curious about genome annotation beyond the genes, then read on! We previously blogged about our RefSeq Functional Elements resource, which provides annotation of experimentally validated, non-genic functional elements in human and mouse. Now, to kick off 2022, we’re delighted to announce a new publication in the January issue of Genome Research: Farrell CM, … Continue reading Venturing beyond the genes: New RefSeq Functional Elements publication! →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Genome Genome annotation Human genome Mouse genome RefSeq RefSeq Functional Elements Source Type: news
RefSeq Release 210 is available
RefSeq Release 210 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 January 3, 2022, and contains 302,482,881 records, including 220,595,192 proteins, 42,453,222 transcripts, and sequences from 115,929 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset … Continue reading RefSeq Release 210 is available →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 11, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Eukaryotic genome annotation Human genome RefSeq Source Type: news
PAG XXIX – NCBI Events Have Been Canceled
Important COVID-19 Update Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country, the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXIX) will no longer take place in person on January 8-12, 2022, in San Diego, California. Although PAG has decided to offer plenary talks and workshop sessions via Zoom to all registered attendees and … Continue reading PAG XXIX – NCBI Events Have Been Canceled →
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Source: NCBI Insights - January 7, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Source Type: news
GenBank Release 247.0
GenBank release 247.0 (12/19/2021) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 16.47 trillion bases and 2.59 billion records. The current release has 234,557,297 traditional records containing 1,053,275,115,030 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 1,734,664,952 WGS records containing 14,922,033,922,302 base pairs of sequence data, 514,158,576 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 455,870,853,358 … Continue reading GenBank Release 247.0 →
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Source: NCBI Insights - December 23, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Source Type: news
Join NCBI at PAG XXIX
Introducing the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) NCBI is looking forward to seeing you in person at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXIX), January 8-12, 2022 in San Diego, California. We’re especially excited to introduce our newest endeavor – the NLM initiative known as the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR)– a platform … Continue reading Join NCBI at PAG XXIX → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 20, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New CGR Conferences Datasets Eukaryotic genome annotation GenBank Genome Data Viewer (GDV) PAGXXIX RefSeq Source Type: news
NCBI Trace database to be retired in June 2022. Data available in SRA.
The Trace Archive at NCBI will be retired as of June 17, 2022. You may continue to retrieve Trace Archive content by searching the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) using TI number, organism, or center name at the time of retirement. Sequencing technology has matured over the past decade, and Next Generation, high throughput sequencing is … Continue reading NCBI Trace database to be retired in June 2022. Data available in SRA. → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 17, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Next-gen sequencing (NGS) Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Trace Archive Source Type: news
Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon Highlights
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM’s) National Center for Biotechnology and Information (NCBI), and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hosted scientists from around the world for a virtual Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon. The codeathon, … Continue reading Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon Highlights → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 17, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Codeathon Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Source Type: news
New annotations in RefSeq
In October and November, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released twenty-nine new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: Acropora millepora (stony coral) Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo) Bufo gargarizans (Asiatic toad) Chrysoperla carnea (insect) (pictured) Coccinella septempunctata (seven-spotted ladybird) Coregonus clupeaformis (lake whitefish) Cotesia glomerata (wasp) Daphnia magna (crustacean) Desmodus rotundus (common vampire bat) Drosophila ananassae (fly) Drosophila … Continue reading New annotations in RefSeq → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 15, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Eukaryotic genome annotation RefSeq Source Type: news
Save the Date: NCBI at Plant and Animal Genome (PAGXXIX), Jan 2022
Come see NCBI in person at the International Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference (PAGXXIX), January 9-12 in San Diego, California. Learn about new ways that we are supporting the data management and analysis needs of scientists working across the tree of life. We’re excited to be back after a year of unprecedented circumstances! As … Continue reading Save the Date: NCBI at Plant and Animal Genome (PAGXXIX), Jan 2022 → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 10, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New CGR Conferences Eukaryotic genome annotation PAGXXIX Source Type: news
