November 9th webinar: PubMed for Clinicians
On November 9th, NCBI staff will show health care professionals how to search PubMed for the most relevant and recent literature, explore specific clinical research areas, set up email alerts, an dmore. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NLM In Focus blog profiles Dr. Kim Pruitt, NCBI staff scientist
The inaugural article in NLM In Focus's new series on NLM scientists features Kim Pruitt, PhD. Dr. Pruitt is a staff scientist at NCBI; she heads the Reference Sequence Database, better known as RefSeq. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 25, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genome Workbench 2.11.0 now available
The latest version of Genome Workbench includes a number of new features, fixes and improvements like an improved ProSplign tool, improvements to Graphical Sequence View and new documentation for using Tree View and other processes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 21, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GI numbers will be removed from sequence record presentations
As announced in March 2016, NCBI is now in the process of removing GI numbers from the presentations of nucleotide and protein sequence records. The affected presentations are the (default) flat file (GenBank and GenPept) views, along with FASTA views. NCBI will be releasing these changes on or soon after October 17, 2016. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New YouTube video: NCBI Staff at ASHG 2016
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel is a recording of the October 5th NCBI Minute, which provides a quick overview of NCBI activities at this year's upcoming meeting related to ClinVar, dbGaP, GRCh38 and other topics. In this video, you'll find out why NCBI goes to scientific meetings and how ASHG attendees benefit from having NCBI at ASHG. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
October 26th NCBI Minute: New BLAST Databases Provide Cleaner Results
On October 26th, NCBI staff will introduce two new BLAST databases: the RefSeq Representative Genomes database and the Model Organisms or Landmark protein database. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 11, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.1 is now available
The NCBI Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSA Viewer) has recently been updated. This new version has an improved rendering mechanism for displaying projected features, improved navigation over gaps in alignment, and improved security and compatibility with HTTPS protocols. A full list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes is available in the MSA Viewer release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NLM presents "Insider's Guide" webinar on E-utilities and PubMed on October 19th
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) will present "Insider's Guide to Accessing NLM Data: Welcome to E-utilities for PubMed". (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
CCDS release 20 for human now public in Gene
Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) release 20 compares NCBI's Homo sapiens annotation release 108 to Ensembl's release 85, and is now available in Gene. This update adds 1,158 new CCDS IDs and 98 genes into the human CCDS set. CCDS release 20 includes a total of 32,524 CCDS IDs that correspond to 18,892 GeneIDs. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - October 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
October 11th NCBI Minute: BLAST+ 2.5.0 with Support for HTTPS, accession.version Identifiers and Much More
On October 11th, the NCBI Minute will be a discussion of changes made to the BLAST standalone distribution due to the switch to HTTPS and the transition of the sequence databases to accession.version as the primary identifier. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
BLAST+ 2.5.0 released with support for HTTPS, accession.version and more
The new version of the BLAST+ executables offers support for HTTPS, accession.version as the primary sequence identifier, support for composition-based statistics with RPSTBLASTN, and a new taxonomic organism report. See more details about these updates on BLAST News. A full list of new features, improvements and bug fixes is available in the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
October 5th webinar: NCBI at ASHG 2016
Next Wednesday, October 5th, NCBI staff will give a brief overview of our activities at this year's ASHG meeting related to ClinVar, dbGaP, GRCh38 and other topics, and how these will benefit ASHG attendees. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 30, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Sequence Viewer 3.16 is now available
Sequence Viewer 3.16 brings several new features, improvements and bug fixes to the graphical viewer, including improved compliance with HTTPS protocol requirements, a new track type, and improved labeling to avoid label duplication. For a full list of changes, see the release notes. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 29, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
GenBank release 215.0 is now available via FTP
GenBank release 215.0 (08/19/2016) has 196,120,831 traditional records containing 217,971,437,647 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 359,796,497 WGS records containing 1,637,224,970,324 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 113,179,607 TSA records containing 103,399,742,586 base pairs of sequence data. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Genomes-announce listserv reactivated
The Genomes-announce email list has been reactivated. To sign up for the Genomes-announce Listserv, go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/genomes-announce. (Source: NCBI Announcements)
Source: NCBI Announcements - September 28, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
