GenBank release 213.0 is now available via FTP
GenBank release 213.0 (04/14/2016) has 193,739,511 "traditional" (non-WGS, non-CON) records containing 211,423,912,047 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 338,922,537 WGS records containing 1,452,207,704,949 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 98,147,566 TSA records containing 87,811,163,676 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 2, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
dbSNP build 147 data for human, chicken, soybean and more are available
dbSNP Build 147 is accessible on the web and via FTP. This release includes data for human, chicken, tilapia, mallard, sheep, date palm and soybean. Build 147 provides over 745 million submitted variants and 250 million reference variants for 7 organisms. To see complete build statistics, visit the SNP summary page. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 29, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline now directly annotates top-level sequences, not scaffolds
The Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has been modified to directly annotate RefSeq assemblies’ top-level sequences (chromosomes, and unplaced and unlocalized scaffolds) instead of scaffolds. This change, included in software release 7.0, improves the annotation of features spanning gaps between adjacent scaffolds, and applies to all upcoming annotation releases, including human (scheduled for May 2016). (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
May 4th NCBI Minute: Linking PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov
Next Wednesday, May 4th, NCBI will present a short tutorial that will teach you two ways to filter PubMed searches for publications linked to clinical trials in clinicaltrials.gov; you’ll also learn how to use the ClinicalTrials database to get more information on trials of interest. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 26, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI video on YouTube: "Sequence Viewer: Display dbVar Supporting Calls"
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel, Sequence Viewer: Display dbVar Supporting Calls, demonstrates a new feature for dbVar tracks in Sequence Viewer. You can now toggle the track display to show or hide supporting variant calls, or children, for the parent structural variant. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 25, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Webinars on April 29 present BLAST, human variation & medical genetic records
On April 29th, NCBI will host two webinars, A Practical Guide to NCBI BLAST and NCBI Human Variation and Medical Genetic Resources. Each webinar will provide an overview of the respective resources and show you how to use them. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 22, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI to assist UC Davis in June hackathon
From June 13th to 15th, NCBI will assist the University of California Davis in hosting a biomedical data science hackathon in Davis, CA, focusing on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data and metadata. This event is for students, postdocs, investigators and other researchers already engaged in the use of pipelines for genomic analyses from next-generation sequencing data or metadata.* Researchers and/or data scientists from the west coast of the United States are especially encouraged to apply, but the event is open to anyone selected for the hackathon, and able to travel to Davis. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 19, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI video on YouTube: Navigating the NIH Manuscript Submission Process
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel, Navigating the NIH Manuscript Submission Process, gives you detailed help with submitting, reviewing and approving your manuscript in the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system. The NIHMS system supports manuscript depositing into PubMed Central (PMC) as required by the public access policies of NIH and other participating funding agencies. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 18, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Articles in Nucleic Acids Research Database 2016 Issue discuss NCBI databases, updates and future plans
The 23rd annual edition of the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue features several papers from NCBI staff that describe the current state of our databases, recent updates and future plans to improve their use. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 15, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Maximizing PubChem: webinar on April 20th will cover new and future features
In two weeks, NCBI staff will discuss features recently added to PubChem, as well as upcoming changes to the resource. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Specialized database with unique search interface added to Zika virus resource page
The NCBI Zika virus resource page has been updated with a specialized database. This database uses pipelines to annotate genes, proteins and mature peptides, and standardize sample metadata. With this database, you can: (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 31, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Register for the April 6th webinar: Using NCBI Databases with Tools that Predict Genomic Variant Effects
In two weeks, NCBI will give a demonstration of some open-source tools that use NCBI databases to predict effects of variants. We will begin with an overview of where to find and download data, particularly VCF and FASTA files, from NCBI, then show you how to use this data in 10 external tools that predict variant functional consequences, including ANNOVAR, PANTHER, SNAP-2, and CBIO MutationMapper. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 24, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Register for the April 13th webinar, Submitting Data to NCBI and BioSample
In two weeks, NCBI staff will guide you through the process of submitting sequence data to NCBI BioSample. This webinar will show you how to describe samples and sources, and share tips on making submission to BioSample easier. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI video on YouTube provides strategies to search ClinVar efficiently
In the newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel, Search ClinVar with Ease, we share search strategies that will help you search ClinVar, our public archive of reports of relationships between human variations and phenotypes, more efficiently. Learn how to search by gene symbol, variant name and disease, and learn how to browse through variants in a genomic region with Variation Viewer. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq release 75 is now available
RefSeq release 75 is accessible via FTP and through NCBI’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript and protein data available as of March 7, 2016 and includes 92,936,289 records, 61,034,675 proteins, 14,035,988 RNAs, and sequences from 58,776 organisms. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 15, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
