GenBank Release 254.0 is Available!
GenBank release 254.0 (2/19/2022) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 22.52 trillion bases and 3.37 billion records. The current release has 241,830,635 traditional records containing 1,731,302,248,418 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 2,337,838,461 WGS records containing 20,116,642,176,263 base pairs of sequence data, 672,261,981 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 630,615,054,587 … Continue reading GenBank Release 254.0 is Available! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 28, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New GenBank Source Type: news
New Enhancements to PMC Website
Legacy view will no longer be available effective mid-March 2023 You asked, we listened! We appreciate your feedback since the launch of the updated PubMed Central (PMC) website in March 2022, and we made several improvements to help you better access PMC. These updates include: Streamlined functionality to get formatted citation information that includes the … Continue reading New Enhancements to PMC Website → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 27, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New PubMed Central (PMC) Source Type: news
What is NCBI and who works here?
Ever wonder who is behind all the data at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)? Who is developing and managing the NCBI website, as well as our various products, tools, and resources? In honor of our upcoming 35th anniversary, we want to tell our story! NCBI, a division of the National Library of Medicine … Continue reading What is NCBI and who works here? → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 23, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New NCBI 35th Anniversary Source Type: news
Now Available! More Mammalian Cross-Species Alignments in the Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV)
In response to your feedback, we’ve made more whole genome cross-species alignments available in NCBI’s Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV). You can use these alignments to explore genome rearrangements between species. You can also zoom in to analyze regions of conserved gene synteny. There are over 20 new cross-species alignments available, including human-mouse, mouse-rat, human-chimp, human-cattle, … Continue reading Now Available! More Mammalian Cross-Species Alignments in the Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 22, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New CGR Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Genome assemblies Genome Browser Source Type: news
Upcoming changes to influenza virus names in NCBI Taxonomy
In order to reflect changes to the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature (ICVCN) made by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), NCBI will introduce new binomial influenza species names like ‘Alphainfluenzavirus influenzae.’ Changes are expected to be in place near summer 2023. We recognize that the traditional influenza virus names like ‘Influenza … Continue reading Upcoming changes to influenza virus names in NCBI Taxonomy → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 21, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Influenza NCBI Taxonomy Source Type: news
New annotations in RefSeq!
In December and January, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released twenty-nine new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: Acinonyx jubatus (cheetah) Anopheles cruzii (mosquito) Anopheles moucheti (mosquito) Bicyclus anynana (squinting bush brown) Budorcas taxicolor (takin) Carassius gibelio (silver crucian carp) Citrus sinensis (sweet orange) Crassostrea angulata (Portugese oyster) Culex pipiens pallens (northern house mosquito) Drosophila gunungcola (fruit … Continue reading New annotations in RefSeq! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 14, 2023 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
Announcing New Names for Eukaryotic Genome Annotations in RefSeq!
The RefSeq eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline (EGAP) is moving to a new annotation naming format that can be used to unambiguously reference both the genome assembly and the RefSeq annotation. This will improve clarity when reporting the data you use and make the data more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The new naming convention applies … Continue reading Announcing New Names for Eukaryotic Genome Annotations in RefSeq! → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - February 9, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR) Eukaryotic genome annotation RefSeq Source Type: news
