October 2nd webinar - LinkOut: Linking to datasets, databases and more
On October 2nd, NCBI staff will present a webinar on LinkOut, an NCBI service that allows you to link directly from NCBI databases to a wide range of relevant information beyond the NCBI systems. This webinar will provide an overview of the service and highlight resources that participate in LinkOut, with a special emphasis on resources beyond full text articles, including databases, datasets and research tools. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 16, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Finding Chemical Probes & Modulators - The Hunt for New Chemical Reagents and Medicines"
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights will show you how to use PubChem to find chemicals that bind to a particular gene or protein target and download a table with that information. In last week's post, we showed you how to do the reverse - find and download a table of gene and protein targets for a particular chemical. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 11, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI to hold fourth offering of "A Librarian's Guide to NCBI"
The NCBI, in partnership with the National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC), will once again offer the Librarian's Guide to NCBI course on the NIH campus, March 7 - 11, 2016 (Announcement). If you are a medical or science librarian in the United States who offers bioinformatics education and support services, or are planning to offer such services in the future, please join us for this intensive exploration of modern molecular biology, genetic data and other biomedical data as represented at the NCBI. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
September 16th NCBI Minute: Accessing the Human Genomics Standard Data (Genome in a Bottle) at NCBI
In the next NCBI Minute, we will show you how to access the Genome in a Bottle dataset from the NCBI site and present potential use cases. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 9, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Identifying Chemical Targets - Finding Potential Cross-Reactions and Predicting Side Effects"
The latest NCBI Insights blog post will show you how to use PubChem to download a table of gene and protein targets for a particular chemical, which can help to find potential cross reactions and side effects. Next week, we will show you how to do the opposite - download a table of chemicals that bind to a particular gene or protein target. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq Release 72 is now available
online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI's programming utilities. The full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available, as of August 27, 2015 and includes 79,189,847 records, 51,933,925 proteins, 12,321,036 RNAs and sequences from 54,937 organisms. More information can be found in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 3, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
HIV-1 interaction datasets in Gene updated
NCBI has added data provided by the Southern Research Institute (SRI) to the HIV-1 interaction datasets available in Gene. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 2, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genome Workbench 2.9.5 now available
Genome Workbench 2.9.5 is available, as of August 27th. New features include added support for Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite) and an added ruler for protein coding regions in graphical sequence view. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 1, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
dbSNP build 145 (pig, chicken, sorghum, gibbon) now available
dbSNP build 145 is now available through the integrated NCBI Entrez system and FTP. This release includes data for pig, chicken, sorghum and gibbon. Build 145 provides more than 195 million submitted variants and 84 million reference variants for 4 species. To see complete build statistics, visit the SNP summary page. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 1, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI annotates 250th eukaryote with Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
This month, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has annotated its 250th organism! Mammals dominate the list of annotated organisms with a total of 95, but NCBI has increased coverage of invertebrates - we've annotated 22 new insects since the beginning of 2015. See the full list of annotated organisms and request that your favorite organism(s) be annotated! (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 31, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
September 2nd NCBI Minute: "Introducing SmartBLAST, a Rapid Protein Identification Tool"
On September 2nd, NCBI staff will introduce SmartBLAST, a faster alternative to ordinary protein-protein BLAST searches for protein query sequence identification. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 20, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 209.0 is now available via FTP
GenBank release 209.0 (8/14/2015) has 187,066,846 non-WGS, non-CON records containing 199,823,644,287 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 302,955,543 WGS records containing 1,163,275,601,001 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 87,827,013 TSA records containing 69,360,654,413 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 19, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Tree Viewer 1.6 now available
NCBI Tree Viewer version 1.6 includes several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including the added ability to download data in Newick and Nexus formats. To see the full list of updates, see the Tree Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 19, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI video: "NCBI's 1000 Genomes Browser: Introduction"
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel is an introduction to the 1000 Genomes Browser, which allows you to view variation and genotype data, and support sequence reads from the 1000 Genomes Project. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 12, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
August 26th webinar: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Determining and Annotating Coding Regions (CDS) for Eukaryotic Genes"
In two weeks, NCBI staff will show you how to use BLAST to determine the locations of the coding sequences in your genomic submissions. You will also learn how to describe these coding regions with the GenBank submission tools BankIt and Sequin, annotate multiple transcript splice variants, and address problems with splice sites, internal stop codons in protein translations, and sequencing gaps that affect coding region annotation. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 12, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
