NIH issued statement on use of dbGaP in the Cloud
On Monday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is now allowing investigators to request permission to transfer controlled-access genomic and associated phenotypic data obtained from NIH-designated data repositories, like dbGaP, under the auspices of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to public or private cloud systems for data storage and analysis. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - April 2, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Updated human and mouse genome annotations now available
Updated annotations for the human and mouse RefSeq genomes produced by the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline are now available. New known RefSeq transcripts (NM_ and NR_ accessions) and non-transcribed pseudogenes (NG_ accessions) were used for these annotations. The number of model RefSeq predictions (XM_ and XR_ accessions) also increased through the use of additional RNA-Seq datasets, especially for human where model RefSeq annotated on GRCh38.p2 contain 41% more exonic bases (31 MBp) than the known RefSeq. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 31, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 8th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Introducing MOLE-BLAST"
On April 8th, NCBI will present a five-minute webinar introducing MOLE-BLAST, a tool for clustering targeted sequences, like those from 16s rRNA, with database sequences and providing taxonomic context. MOLE-BLAST can quickly establish taxonomy for sequences from uncultured or environmental sequences. To register, click here. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 26, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
April 1st webinar: "A Practical Guide to Using NCBI BLAST on the Web"
Next Wednesday, April 1st, NCBI will present a webinar on the NCBI BLAST service. The webinar will highlight important features and demonstrate the practical aspects of using NCBI BLAST, the most popular sequence similarity service in the world. To register, click here. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
dbSNP Build 143 Phase II now available
dbSNP build 143 phase II includes data for cow, Ciona intestinalis and prairie vole. Build 143 provides more than 537 million submitted and 299 million reference variants for 9 species. You can access build 143 SNP data through the integrated NCBI Entrez system and through FTP. To see complete build statistics, visit the SNP summary page. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 18, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
