NCBI will attend the 2017 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
Join NCBI staff at the 2017 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting (ACMG) in Phoenix, AZ on March 21-25, 2017. At Exhibit Booth #531, you ’ll be able to get navigation tips, hands-on help, and handout materials. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq release 81 now public
RefSeq release 81 is now accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI's programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of March 6, 2017 and contains 121,954,847 records, including 81,027,309 proteins, 18,381,587 RNAs, and sequences from 68,165 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 218.0 is now available
GenBank release 218.0 (2/13/2017) has 199,341,377 traditional records containing 228,719,437,638 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 409,490,397 WGS records containing 1,892,966,308,635 base pairs of sequence data, 151,431,485 TSA records containing 133,517,212,104 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 1,438,349 TLS records containing 636,923,295 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Seven new annotations added to RefSeq
In the past month, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has released new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.4 is now available
The new version of the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSA Viewer) has implemented several bug fixes affecting several features, including zoom on alignments and text import. A full list of bug fixes is available in the MSA Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Magic-BLAST 1.2.0 now available
The newest version of Magic-BLAST handles multiple SRA accessions, offers improved splice site detection and multi-threading performance, and fixes issues with macOS installation. For more information, see the release notes. The new executables are available on the NCBI FTP site. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Expression section and bulk datasets added to NCBI Gene
The Gene resource has a new feature that reports normalized RNA expression levels computed from RNA-Seq data for human, mouse, and rat genes. An expression chart is available on the Gene full report pages, with an additional table view and download option on the new expression report page available through the “See details” link or format menu. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - March 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI Insights | PubMed Citations: A New, Faster Process for Correcting Errors
The latest blog post on NCBI Insights introduces users to the PubMed Data Management System (PMDM), which allows publishers to correct PubMed citation data directly. Authors should contact journal publishers to correct PubMed citation mistakes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
March 1st NCBI Minute: Setting up new data alerts with MyNCBI
Next Wednesday, March 1, 2017, NCBI will present a short webinar that will show you have to use MyNCBI alerts to be notified when new citations of interest appear in traditional sequence databases, as well as SRA and GEO. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Bottlenose dolphin annotation release 101
Annotation Release 101 for the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is out in RefSeq! This annotation was based on the NIST Tur_tru v1 assembly, which has a four-fold increase in contiguity from the assembly used in the previous annotation. Over four billion RNA-Seq reads from skin and blood tissue were used for gene prediction. As a result of these improvements, the percent of partially-represented protein-coding genes went down from 24% to 4%. Over 2500 genes that were fragmented in the previous assembly were merged into complete genes. A total of 24,026 genes were annotated, and 17,096 of them were protein-coding. A ...
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 23, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New video on YouTube: Embed the NCBI Sequence Viewer into Your Pages
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel introduces the Sequence Viewer embedding API. A few quick examples illustrate how easy it is to embed Sequence Viewer into your own pages. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NLM Webinar series: "Insider's Guide to Accessing NLM Data: EDirect for PubMed"
Beginning February 21, 2017, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will present the three-part webinar series "Insider ’s Guide to Accessing NLM Data: EDirect for PubMed." (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Tree Viewer version 1.12 implements new API to markup trees
Tree Viewer version 1.12 has several improvements, updates and bug fixes, including a new API, PDF rendering, and Tree Viewer macro language. The Tree Viewer release notes list all updates. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Interim annotation updates for the human GRCh37p.13 and GRCh38.p10 assemblies
Updates to the annotation of the human GRCh37.p13 and GRCh38.p10 assemblies are now available for download by anonymous FTP. These annotation updates contain features projected from the current known RefSeq transcripts and curated genomic sequences (with accession prefixes NM_ or NR_, and NG_ respectively) placed on either the GRCh37.p13 or GRCh38.p10 assembly. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
February 22nd webinar: Introducing the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
Next Wednesday, February 22, 2017, NCBI will present a webinar on the Multiple Sequence Viewer (MSAV). In this webinar, you will learn how to display alignment data from many sources, including NCBI BLAST results, as well as precomputed multiple alignments of your own data. You will also see how to embed the viewer in your own web pages or share a link to a particular alignment display. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
