Variation Viewer 1.5 adds facet toggling, updated backend data
Variation Viewer 1.5 provides several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including facet toggling in Variant Table, updated backend data to dbSNP human build 146, dbVar (December 2015) and ClinVar (January 2016), and more. A full list of changes to Variation Viewer is available in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
February 17th webinar: "Five ways to submit next-gen sequencing data to NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA)"
In two weeks, NCBI will present a webinar on SRA submissions, discussing five different ways to submit next-generation sequencing data to SRA, including the new SRA submission portal (beta) which allows you to submit data via FTP and the Aspera command line, Illumina’s BaseSpace, MOTHUR, and the iPlant Collaborative. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genome Workbench 2.10 now available
Genome Workbench 2.10 includes a reworked BLAST tool and new functionalities in Tree View. For the full list of features, improvements and fixes, see the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 29, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sequence Viewer 3.11 now available
Sequence Viewer 3.11, now available, contains a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes, including the ability to overlay multiple graphs in one track (for more information, please see the demo pages and API documentation), improved track descriptions for better integration with track management, updated SNP tracks, and tooltips for dbVar. A full list of features, improvements and bug fixes is included in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 27, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
February 3rd webinar: "How to Upload and Analyze dbGaP Data in the Cloud"
In two weeks, NCBI will show you how to upload and analyze dbGaP data through the SRA Toolkit and Amazon Web Services. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 21, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq Release 74 now available on FTP
RefSeq Release 74 is now accessible online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript and protein data available as of January 11, 2016 and includes 89,458,499 records, 56,496,614 proteins, 13,719,136 RNAs, and sequences from 57,993 organisms. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 20, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
January 28th webinar: "Genomic Data Sharing with dbGaP: Registration and Submission" for IRP investigators
In two weeks, NCBI will present a webinar for Intramural Research Program (IRP) investigators engaged in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and other genomic research efforts at NIH. Topics covered will include working with your Genomics Program Administrator to register your study in dbGaP and preparing your project metadata files, phenotypes and molecular data for submission to dbGaP. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 19, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI staff will attend the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIV in January
From January 9-13, 2016, NCBI staff will present posters, give lectures and presentations, and lead workshops at the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference. In addition, NCBI will have a booth (#618) where we will answer any questions you may have; we also welcome your suggestions and comments. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 30, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
BLAST+ executables 2.3.0 now available
A new version (2.3.0) of the stand-alone BLAST executables (Linux, Windows and MacOSX available on FTP) is now available. The BLAST VM at cloud providers will be updated soon as well. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 29, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 211.0 is now available via FTP
GenBank release 211.0 (12/18/2015) has 189,232,925 non-WGS, non-CON records containing 203,939,111,071 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 317,122,157 WGS records containing 1,297,865,618,365 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 87,488,539 TSA records containing 77,583,339,176 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
January 7th: Explore new graphical viewer track options with The NCBI Minute
On January 7th, NCBI will present a new NCBI Minute webinar, “New track options for getting the most out of NCBI Graphical Viewers”. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use these new features to get the most out of Sequence Viewer, Variation Viewer and other NCBI graphical browsers. In addition, we’ll show you how to search and quickly find relevant tracks and upload your own custom data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 22, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
January 5th webinar: Eukaryotic Genome Data Curation at NCBI
On January 5th, three RefSeq (Reference Sequence) curators will focus on aspects of data curation for eukaryotic organisms. We'll discuss several aspects of manual curation, including sequence analysis, functional annotation, nomenclature review, data validation and community collaboration. We will also highlight how these curation efforts improve the programmatic approaches used by the genome annotation pipelines, which allow NCBI to handle the ever-increasing amount of data generated by researchers. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 21, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New on NCBI Insights blog: "The NCBI Minute: quick introductions to NCBI resources"
Today's post on NCBI Insights discusses the NCBI Minute, a series of short webinars that introduce a new NCBI tool or resource or provide quick tips for using a popular NCBI resource. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 17, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
dbSNP Build 146 for non-human organisms is now available
dbSNP Build 146 is accessible via Entrez and FTP. This release includes data for corn, cow, dog, rat, chickpea and rapeseed. Build 146 provides over 380 million submitted variants and 166 million reference variants for 6 species. To see complete build statistics, visit the SNP summary page. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 16, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog posts highlight SRA Toolkit, Run Selector
Today, two new blog posts on NCBI Insights present SRA Toolkit and Run Selector, which allow you to integrate downloaded data sets into pipelines and fine-tune web-based search results, respectively. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 11, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
