New NCBI Insights blog post: "SciENcv Updated to Support New NIH Biosketch Format"
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights will show you how to use SciENcv to convert your existing NIH Biosketch from the old format to the new format required for grant applications submitted with due dates after May 24, 2015. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 10, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genomes FTP site update (version 1.2) expands taxonomic scope and more
NCBI has released a comprehensive update of all current genome assemblies in the Genomes FTP site, affecting data reported in the /genomes/all/, /genomes/genbank/, and /genomes/refseq/ FTP directories. This update expands the taxonomic scope of the /refseq/ data and adds a new report file, a data conversion script, and more. The FTP content of all "latest" GenBank and RefSeq assemblies was updated to reflect these changes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 5, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
CCDS release 19 for mouse added to Gene
The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) update that compares NCBI's Mus musculus annotation release 105 to Ensembl's release 81 is now reflected in Gene. This update adds 1,003 new CCDS IDs and adds 148 Genes into the mouse CCDS set. CCDS release 19 includes a total of 24,834 CCDS IDs that correspond to 20,215 GeneIDs. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - August 4, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: Introducing PubMed Labs, an NCBI initiative to include user community in product development from beginning
Today on NCBI Insights, we announced PubMed Labs, an initiative for creating innovative and relevant products by involving you, our user community, from the start. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 29, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
August 12th NCBI Minute: Using Variation Reporter to Map and Annotate Your Own Variant Calls
In two weeks, NCBI staff will show you how to use Variation Reporter to submit your own variant calls for analysis and quickly view and interpret mapping results. Variation Reporter is an interface to NCBI's variation resources that quickly provides genomic context, phenotypic assertions and allele frequency for known variants in your data. It also maps and predicts consequences for genes and gene products for variants not in the NCBI databases. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 28, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sequence Viewer 3.9 adds data upload options to API, improved response time and more
Recent updates to Sequence Viewer bring the following features and improvements to version 3.9: (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 28, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
August 5th NCBI Minute: "Using EDirect's Xtract Utility to Parse NCBI BLAST XML Output"
The next NCBI Minute will introduce the EDirect Xtract XML parser, a useful tool for processing NCBI BLAST XML output. Future NCBI Minute webinars will show additional ways to use the EDirect suite to enhance and customize standalone BLAST. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 22, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
July 30th webinar: "Using SciENcv to Create Your NIH Biosketch"
In two weeks, NCBI staff will present a webinar on SciENcv, our platform for maintaining your record of research accomplishment in the form of a CV. In this webinar, we'll show you how to use SciENcv to maintain your scientific record and generate the new BioSketch. Register here: https://bit.ly/1f7wWC8. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 16, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
July 22nd NCBI Minute webinar: Find disease-related variants in ClinVar
Next Wednesday, July 22, NCBI staff will show you how to quickly find variants related to human disease in the NCBI ClinVar resource, as well as how to download batches of variants and related information in .xml and .vcf formats. To sign up, go here: https://bit.ly/1gxkBYY (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 15, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq Release 71 is now available!
RefSeq Release 71 is now available online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI's programming utilities, with 77,730,891 records describing 52,494,032 proteins, 11,803,354 RNAs, and sequences from 55,267 organisms. More information can be found in the Release Notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 13, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
July 15th webinar: "E-Direct: Bringing the E-Utilities to the UNIX Command Line"
In two weeks, NCBI staff will introduce E-Direct, a simple, easy-to-use command-line interface for E-Utilities, the NCBI Entrez API. In this webinar, you will learn how to use E-Direct to search, retrieve and process literature and molecular data from NCBI. You will also learn how to set up pipelines for common tasks. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - July 1, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Tree Viewer version 1.5 improves performance
NCBI Tree Viewer version 1.5 includes several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including improved tree loading notifications, fixed resizing in full view and more. For a full list of updates, see the Tree Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - June 30, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
June 3rd webinar "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Coding Region Annotation" video up on YouTube
The recording of the June 3rd webinar on troubleshooting internal stop codon errors has been uploaded to YouTube. In this webinar, you will learn how to troubleshoot internal stop codons encountered during coding region (CDS) annotation. You will also learn how to analyze your sequences and uncover problems with BLAST prior to submitting them to GenBank. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - June 26, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
June 10th webinar "Phylogenetic Trees in Genome Workbench" video up on YouTube
The recording of the June 10th webinar on Genome Workbench's phylogenetic trees has been uploaded to YouTube. In this webinar, you will learn how to use Genome Workbench to work with phylogenetic trees. You will also see the numerous options for importing trees, for visualising, searching and modifying the trees, and for saving or exporting them. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - June 26, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New dbVar webinar available on NCBI YouTube channel
A new webinar highlighting dbVar - NCBI's database of genomic structural variation - is available and consists of two parts: Part 1 is a slide presentation that explores the dbVar website and demonstrates how to navigate its features and tools, including viewing variants in a genome browser; Part 2 is a live demo, with use cases for finding useful information at dbVar as well as direct links to related information at other NCBI resources - for example, clinical assertions at ClinVar. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - June 25, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
