New NCBI YouTube Video: NCBI's Tree Viewer
This short video, "NCBI's Tree Viewer" on the NCBI YouTube channel is an introduction to Tree Viewer, a tool for viewing your own phylogenetic tree data. Tree Viewer is customizable and can be embedded in a wide variety of web pages. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 27, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI's First Hackathon: Advanced Bioinformatic Analysis of Next-Gen Sequencing Data"
In the latest blog post on NCBI Insights, we discuss the genomics hackathon NCBI hosted earlier this year, in conjunction with the NIH Office of Data Science. The goal was to have experienced genomics professionals create efficient pipelines for people who are new to this field. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 22, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
May 26th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Update"
The next NCBI Minute on Tuesday, May 26th will cover recent improvements to the way we annotate and manage RefSeq bacterial and archaeal genomes at NCBI. We'll introduce you to the new annotation paradigm, provide tips on adapting your workflow, and point out how to find help and more information. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 21, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI RefSeq's Antimicrobial Peptide Indexed Field: Facilitating Novel Antibiotic Discovery"
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights introduces the RefSeq "Protein has antimicrobial activity [prop]" indexed field, which retrieves curated sequence annotations showing naturally occuring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), making it easier for researchers to identify alternatives to traditional antibiotics. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 21, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Export data into Genome Workbench with Tree Viewer version 1.4
NCBI Tree Viewer 1.4 implements several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including an updated Download function, which now allows you to export data into Genome Workbench; you can also upload custom user-defined data in ASN.1 and Newick formats. To see the full list of updates, see the Tree Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 20, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
June 9th hands-on workshops at NLM will show users how to search NCBI's molecular databases
On June 9th, 2015, NCBI will present two workshops on searching NCBI molecular databases: "Accessing Genomes, Assemblies and Annotation Products" and "Human Variation and Medical Genetics Resources". Workshops will be held at the Lister Hill Center (Building 38A) Auditorium on the NIH campus. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 18, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genome Workbench 2.9.0 now
As of May 5th, Genome Workbench 2.9.0 is available. New features include custom selections and search support for Tree Viewer, as well as improvements to Graphical Sequence View. For the full list of fixes, improvements and features, see the Genome Workbench release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 14, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post - Accessing the Hidden Kingdom: Fungal ITS Reference Sequences"
NCBI staff, in collaboration with outside mycology experts, are curating a set of fungal sequences from internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of nuclear rRNA genes. These ITS sequences are especially useful for identifying and classifying fungal species by morphology, a difficult process when using traditional methods. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 11, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq release 70 is now available with re-annotated bacterial genomes for uniformity across genomes and species
The full RefSeq release 70 is now available online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI's programming utilities, with 74,720,563 records describing 50,351,119 proteins, 11,310,700 RNAs, and sequences from 54,118 different organisms. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 7, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
May 13th webinar: "Introducing dbVar, the NCBI Database of Large-Scale Genetic Variation
Next Wednesday, May 13th, NCBI staff will introduce dbVar, NCBI's database of genomic structural variation. In addition to describing the database's scope and features, we will also show you how to find, display and interpret dbVar records of interest. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - May 7, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
May 6th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Connecting with PubMed Commons"
Next Wednesday, May 6th, NCBI staff will introduce PubMed Commons, a forum for sharing information and perspectives about biomedical publications in PubMed. We will also provide a brief overview of how to participate and highlight the ways users are contributing to scientific discourse. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 27, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NIHMS Users: Do You Know How Often Your Paper is Being Accessed via PMC?"
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights shows NIHMS users how to view PMC access statistics for any paper with which they are associated in the NIHMS system. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 29th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding Genomes and Annotations by Searching NCBI Assembly"
Next Wednesday, April 29th, NCBI staff will show you how to quickly find a particular genome sequence by using FTP to access our Assembly database, which houses 25,000 annotated genomes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 22, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 21st webinar: Rebroadcast of "NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central Submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv"
On Tuesday, April 21, NCBI will have an encore presentation of the March 5th webinar for NIH grant holders on My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv. This webinar will include the same material as the March 5th webinar; the recording of the original presentation is available on YouTube. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 14, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 15th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding and Getting the Data You Want from NCBI in Less than Three Minutes - Introducing BioProject'
Next Wednesday, April 15th, NCBI staff will show you how to use the BioProject database to quickly find data. When looking for research data using fairly broad search terms like "tuberculosis" or "mouse", BioProject is a great place to start. In this brief presentation, you will learn how to search for studies and quickly identify related PubMed-listed publications and experimental data, such as RNA-seq datasets in the GEO database. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 13, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
