Registration open for November 12th webinar, "PubMed for Scientists"
On November 12th, NCBI will present "PubMed for Scientists", a webinar that will show you how to search biomedical literature more efficiently with PubMed. NCBI staff will teach you how to search by author, explore a subject, use filters to narrow your search, find full text articles, and set up an email alert for new research on your topic. Finally, we will answer your questions about searching PubMed. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - November 2, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Variation Viewer 1.4.1 is now available with optimized Variant Filters and Table performance
Variation Viewer 1.4.1 provides several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including further optimized performance for Variant Filters and Variant Table. A full list of changes to Variation Viewer is available in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 29, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New on the NCBI YouTube channel: "LinkOut - Linking to Datasets, Databases and More"
The recording for the October 2nd webinar "LinkOut - Linking to Datasets, Databases and More" is available on YouTube. The webinar presents an overview of LinkOut and highlights participating resources, with special emphasis on resources beyond full text articles, including databases, datasets and research tools. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 29, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
OSIRIS Version 2.5 is now available
OSIRIS, NCBI's open source short tandem repeat (STR) analysis and quality assurance software package, has just been updated to version 2.5. This version brings several improvements, including multiple peak labels and improved allele and artifact calling. A full list of updates is included in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 28, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Outdated Genomes FTP directories will be archived on November 30, 2015
At the end of November 2015, many outdated Genomes FTP directories will be archived and no longer updated. If you get Genomes data from the NCBI FTP site, please prepare by checking the detailed list of changes below and updating your bookmarks, links and scripts where necessary before November 30, 2015. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 27, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 210.0 is now available via FTP
GenBank release 210.0 (10/15/15) has 188,372,017 non-WGS, non-CON records containing 202,237,081,559 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 309,198,943 WGS records containing 1,222,635,267,498 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 81,790,031 TSA records containing 70,917,172,944 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 21, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New on the NCBI YouTube channel: Learn how to view track sets and store track collections
Two new videos on the NCBI YouTube channel will show you how to view track sets in all of the NCBI genome browsers and Sequence Viewer displays and how to store and share custom sets of tracks in track collections. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 16, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Larger word size in modified algorithm speeds up BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN search
The NCBI BLAST webpage now offers faster BLASTP, BLASTX and TBLASTN searches due to a modified algorithm that can use a larger word size. This improvement can make search 2-4 times faster without changing the results most of the time. Please see this article for more details on the modified algorithm. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 15, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Variation Viewer 1.4 is now available with faster filter performance, track sets & collections
Variation Viewer 1.4 provides several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including significantly faster performance for Sequence Viewer and Variant Table filters, improved documentation readability, added track sets and track collections, and more. A full list of changes to Variation Viewer is available in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 8, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sequence Viewer 3.10 adds support for track sets and track collections, performance optimization and more
Sequence Viewer has been updated to version 3.10, bringing new features, improvements and bug fixes. These changes include: (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 5, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Annotating the Coding Region (CDS)"
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights gives GenBank data submitters a workflow for using BLAST to troubleshoot problems with CDS feature annotation. This information is also available in two webinars on the NCBI YouTube channel: Coding Region Annotation and Eukaryotic CDS Annotation. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 2, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI staff to attend and present at ASHG 2015
NCBI will participate in the ASHG annual meeting in Baltimore, MD (Oct. 6-10). Staff will participate in the Genome Reference Consortium workshop and present twelve different posters on updated tools and resources for clinical genetics, genomics, and human genome assembly and annotation. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 2, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
First offering of NCBI NOW (Next generation sequencing Online Workshop) to begin October 13, 2015
From October 13th to October 23rd, NCBI will present the first iteration of NCBI NOW, a free online experience aimed at those new to next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. Enrollment in this course is limited to the first 1,000 participants who sign up through the ORAU Portal. Since enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis, please only sign up for this educational opportunity if you will be able to participate fully. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 30, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
September 30th NCBI Minute: Preview of NCBI at American Society of Human Genetics 2015
On September 30th, NCBI staff will provide a quick overview of NCBI activities at this year's American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting, including previews of NCBI posters and presentations on tools and resources for clinical genetics, genomics and the assembly and annotation of the human genome. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 17, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
"Create a Biosketch with SciENcv" webinar recording on YouTube
The recording of the July 30th webinar (Announcement) on SciENcv and Biosketch is available on YouTube. The webinar shows you how to use SciENcv to maintain your scientific record and generate the new NIH Biosketch; this NCBI Insights blog post complements the webinar. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 16, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
