SmartBLAST updated to provide more information, database matches
The SmartBLAST service has recently been updated to emphasize matches to the landmark database, which comprises the proteomes from 26 well-curated genomic assemblies. The display also now presents more information about conserved domains and details about the query. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sequence Viewer 3.19 is now available
Sequence Viewer 3.19 has several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including a new aggregate track type, improved display of projected features and cleaned alignments, and a new manual for using embedded API. For a full list of changes, see the Sequence Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights post: New Web Services for Comparing and Grouping Sequence Variants
The latest post on the NCBI Insights blog introduces new web services for comparing and grouping variants. Geneticists, dataflow engineers, and anyone who needs to compare genetic variants can use these services. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NCBI to host genomics hackathon March 20-22
From March 20th to 22nd, the NCBI will host a genomics hackathon on the NIH campus. To apply for this hackathon, complete this application (approximately 10 minutes to complete). Applications are due February 22nd by 1 PM ET. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 2, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
February 8th NCBI Minute: Finding Gene, Protein and Chemical Names, Aliases and Synonyms
Next Wednesday, February 8th, NCBI staff will discuss the systems in the NCBI Gene and PubChem resources that identify and correlate various names used for genes, proteins and chemicals. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - February 1, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
BLAST+ 2.6.0 offers improved support for accession.version
The newest version of the BLAST+ executables provides improved support for use of accession.version as the primary identifier, as well as improved speed of blastdbcmd when dumping information from a database. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights post: Visualize and Interpret Alignment Data with the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
The latest post on the NCBI Insights blog introduces the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSAV), a resource for visualizing and interpreting alignments for nucleotide and amino acid sequences. The viewer is easily embedded in web pages, readily customizable, and displays alignment data from many sources. Read on at NCBI Insights. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 25, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
January 31st NCBI Minute: New version of E-utilities supports accession.version
Next Tuesday, January 31, 2017, NCBI will present a short webinar that describes and demonstrates new functionality recently introduced to the E-utilities that supports sequence data retrieval. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 24, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
RefSeq release 80 now available; GI identifiers to be removed in next release (March 2017)
RefSeq release 80 is now accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI's programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of January 9, 2017 and contains 118,059,547 records, including 78,028,152 proteins, 17,862,608 RNAs, and sequences from 66,224 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 - January 17, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New videos on YouTube: Clone DB & clone placements
Two new videos on the NCBI YouTube channel demonstrate how to use Clone DB and clone placements to assess and improve genome assemblies. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 217.0 is available via FTP
GenBank release 217.0 (12/15/2016) has 198,565,475 traditional records containing 224,973,060,433 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 395,301,176 WGS records containing 1,817,189,565,845 base pairs of sequence data, 142,094,337 TSA records containing 125,328,824,508 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 1,268,690 TLS records containing 584,697,919 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 11, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genome Workbench 2.11.7 now available
The latest version of Genome Workbench includes a number of new features, fixes and improvements like a critical improvement in HTTPS protocol communication with NCBI, improved rendering for translation discrepancies, and improved handling of tracks. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - January 4, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New YouTube video: Sequence Viewer: Display Translation Discrepancies
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel is a brief introduction to a new set of sequence viewer renderings that better display discrepancies between genomic sequence and annotated features. These discrepancies can occur because RefSeq gene models based on the current genomic sequence can differ from RefSeq transcripts and corresponding proteins that come from our continuous curation efforts. For links to examples used in the video, see the Sequence Viewer tutorial. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New NCBI Insights post: Converting Lots of GI Numbers to Accession.version
The latest post on the NCBI Insights blog provides a bulk conversion resource for those who those who need to convert more than a few thousand GI numbers to accession.version identifiers. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
CCDS release 21 for mouse is public in Gene
The Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) update that compares NCBI's Mus musculus annotation release 106 to Ensembl's release 86 is now available in Gene. This update adds 938 new CCDS IDs, and adds 137 genes into the mouse CCDS set. CCDS release 21 includes a total of 25,757 CCDS IDs that correspond to 20,354 GeneIDs. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 22, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
