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Publication No.: 94-3272ISSN: 1060-8788
Index of Issues
- NCBI News, May 2017
- NCBI to phase out support for non-human organism data in dbSNP and dbVar
- Eleven eukaryotic annotations added to RefSeq in April 2017
- NCBI to assist with NYGC Genomics Hackathon June 19-21
- GenBank release 219.0 is available via FTP
- May 10th NCBI Minute: How to Locate and Use Human Genomes and Annotations from NCBI
- NCBI News, April 2017
- April 26th NCBI Minute: Medical Genetics Summaries on the NCBI Bookshelf - a pharmacogenomics resource for clinicians
- Maize (Zea mays) genome annotation release 101 is now available!
- dbSNP FTP file format change planned for early 2018
- dbSNP's human build 150 has doubled the amount of RefSNP records!
- NCBI researchers and collaborators discover novel group of giant viruses
- April 19th NCBI Minute: Magic-BLAST, NCBI's next-gen sequence alignment program
- Six functional prototypes available from the March NCBI hackathon
- Eight new eukaryotic genome annotations added to RefSeq
- New Genome Data Viewer access page
- NCBI News, March 2017
- Sequence Viewer 3.20 is now available
- Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.16 now available online and via FTP
- NCBI to assist with BioFrontiers Hackathon in May
- NCBI will attend the AACR Annual Meeting 2017
- Genome Workbench 2.11.10 now available
- Tree Viewer version 1.13 implements new search in tree features
- Complete RefSeq genome annotation results represented in UCSC genome browser
- March 29th NCBI Minute: How to Submit Your 16S rRNA Data to NCBI
- NCBI will attend the 2017 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
- RefSeq release 81 now public
- GenBank release 218.0 is now available
- Seven new annotations added to RefSeq
- Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.4 is now available
- Magic-BLAST 1.2.0 now available
- Expression section and bulk datasets added to NCBI Gene
- NCBI News, February 2017
- NCBI Insights | PubMed Citations: A New, Faster Process for Correcting Errors
- March 1st NCBI Minute: Setting up new data alerts with MyNCBI
- Bottlenose dolphin annotation release 101
- New video on YouTube: Embed the NCBI Sequence Viewer into Your Pages
- NLM Webinar series: "Insider's Guide to Accessing NLM Data: EDirect for PubMed"
- Tree Viewer version 1.12 implements new API to markup trees
- Interim annotation updates for the human GRCh37p.13 and GRCh38.p10 assemblies
- February 22nd webinar: Introducing the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
- SmartBLAST updated to provide more information, database matches
- Sequence Viewer 3.19 is now available
- New NCBI Insights post: New Web Services for Comparing and Grouping Sequence Variants
- NCBI to host genomics hackathon March 20-22
- NCBI News, January 2017
- Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.3 is now available
- February 8th NCBI Minute: Finding Gene, Protein and Chemical Names, Aliases and Synonyms
- BLAST+ 2.6.0 offers improved support for accession.version
- New NCBI Insights post: Visualize and Interpret Alignment Data with the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
- January 31st NCBI Minute: New version of E-utilities supports accession.version
- RefSeq release 80 now available; GI identifiers to be removed in next release (March 2017)
- New videos on YouTube: Clone DB and clone placements
- GenBank release 217.0 is available via FTP
- Genome Workbench 2.11.7 now available
- NCBI News, December 2016
- New YouTube video: Sequence Viewer: Display Translation Discrepancies
- New NCBI Insights post: Converting Lots of GI Numbers to Accession.version
- CCDS release 21 for mouse is public in Gene
- December 21st NCBI Minute: Bulk Conversion of NCBI Sequence GI Identifiers to accession.version
- Variant interpretations from Illumina double ClinVar data
- The new Human Genome Resources site: a portal for exploration of the human genome
- Sequence Viewer 3.18 is now available
- New on NCBI Insights: Converting GI Numbers to Accession.version
- NCBI Tech Talk and Booth at the American Society for Cell Biology 2016 National Meeting
- NCBI News, November 2016
- Evidence Viewer has been retired
- NCBI, NLM, NHGRI to hold on-campus hackathon January 9-11
- Genome Workbench 2.11.5 now available
- November 17th webinar: NCBI Resources for Agricultural Research
- RefSeq release 79 now available
- New NCBI Insights post: Identifying and Correlating Chemical Names and Synonyms
- New NCBI Insights blog post: Clearing Up Confusion with Human Gene Symbols and Names
- Permanent redirect to HTTPS will occur on November 10, 2016
- New video on YouTube: The New MSA Viewer
- NCBI News, October 2016
- November 9th webinar: PubMed for Clinicians
- NLM In Focus blog profiles Dr. Kim Pruitt, NCBI staff scientist
- Genome Workbench 2.11.0 now available
- GI numbers will be removed from sequence record presentations
- New YouTube video: NCBI Staff at ASHG 2016
- October 26th NCBI Minute: New BLAST Databases Provide Cleaner Results
- Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.1 is now available
- NLM presents "Insider's Guide" webinar on E-utilities and PubMed on October 19th
- CCDS release 20 for human now public in Gene
- NCBI News, September 2016
- October 11th NCBI Minute: BLAST+ 2.5.0 with Support for HTTPS, accession.version Identifiers and Much More
- BLAST+ 2.5.0 released with support for HTTPS, accession.version and more
- October 5th webinar: NCBI at ASHG 2016
- Sequence Viewer 3.16 is now available
- GenBank release 215.0 is now available via FTP
- Genomes-announce listserv reactivated
- NCBI to hold Developers' Forum September 28th
- October 4-6: Stream the University of Michigan NCBI workshops
- Introducing Magic-BLAST
- Scheduled: Next Round of HTTPS Tests
- NCBI's Bryant and Bolton receive 2016 Herman Skolnik Award for PubChem database
- September 21st webinar: Update on NCBI's Transition to HTTPS
- New video on YouTube: Tree Viewer - Display Large Trees
- Genomes FTP site update (version 1.3) adds new data formats and more
- RefSeq release 78 is now available
- New on NCBI Insights: The Future of Existing GI Numbers at NCBI
- Leiden Open Variation Database to be retired September 30, 2016
- New on NCBI Insights: Find, Browse and Follow Biomedical Literature with PubMed Journals
- September 7th webinar: The E-Utilities in an Age without GI Numbers
- October 24-26: Hackathon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- NCBI News, August 2016
- Genomes FTP site data organization to change on September 20, 2016
- dbVar July 2016 data release includes new 1000 Genomes Phase III structural variants
- August 31st NCBI Minute: Downloading Genome Data from the NCBI FTP Site
- VAST+ update provides refined alignments
- September 12th class at NLM: EDirect - Command Line Access to NCBI's Biomolecular Databases
- HIV-1 datasets in Gene updated
- NCBI News, July 2016
- HTTPS at NCBI: Guidance for NCBI web API users
- dbSNP build 148 for corn, fruit fly, rice and 8 other organisms available
- August 3rd webinar: NCBI Targeted Loci: RefSeq Ribosomal RNA Sequences for Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis
- Tree Viewer 1.10 visualizes large phylogenetic trees up to 100,000 nodes
- NCBI Insights blog post: NCBI is Phasing out Sequence GIs - Here's What You Need to Know
- July 27th NCBI Minute: Important Changes to NCBI Web Protocols
- Sequence Viewer 3.15 is now available
- July 20th NCBI Minute: Important Changes Coming to Sequence Databases
- Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.15 now available online and via FTP
- RefSeq release 77 is now available
- Mouse and zebrafish genome annotations updated
- NCBI News, June 2016
- Genome Workbench 2.10.7 now available
- July 6th NCBI Minute: Quickly Find Coding Sequences Using ORFfinder
- Human genome Annotation Release 108 incorporates new RefSeq sequences, predicts new variants
- GenBank release 214.0 is now available via FTP
- June 29th webinar: Downloading Exon and Coding Region Sequences for Genes
- International HapMap Browser to go offline June 16, 2016
- NCBI to hold hackathon on NIH campus in August
- BLAST+ 2.4.0 now available
- NCBI will transition to HTTPS on September 30, 2016
- Tree Viewer 1.9 visualizes medium-large phylogenetic trees
- June 10th webinar: Finding Systematic Reviews at PubMed Health and PubMed
- MutaBind: Evaluating the effects of sequence variants and disease mutations on protein-protein interactions
- Browse histones, analyze sequences with revamped HistoneDB 2.0
- June 15th webinar: Using NCBI Resources and Variant Interpretation Tools for the Clinical Community
- NCBI News, May 2016
- Epigenomics database to be retired June 1, 2016
- NCBI launches new Twitter account for NCBI Bookshelf
- New NCBI Insights blog post: Fast Sequence Inspection with ORFfinder and SmartBLAST (PubMed Labs)
- RefSeq release 76 is now available
- Genome Browsers section added to Gene
- Sequence Viewer version 3.14 upgrades platform
- New NCBI Variation summary page highlights all organisms in dbSNP or dbVar with full assembly annotations
- NCBI launches web-based iCn3D, a new viewer for 3D macromolecular structures
- NCBI annotates 300th organism with the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
- Genome Workbench 2.10.5 now available
- Preview the new BLAST home page!
- NCBI and RCSB PDB to assist ISCB in Sequence-Structure hackathon at ISMB Orlando 2016
- May 18th webinar: Using VDB BLAST Clients to Search Whole Genome Shotgun Contigs (WGS) and Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Data at the NCBI
- New NCBI video on YouTube: ProSplign comes to Genome Workbench
- New NCBI video on YouTube: Submitting BioSample Data to NCBI
- GenBank release 213.0 is now available via FTP
- NCBI News, April 2016
- dbSNP build 147 data for human, chicken, soybean and more are available
- Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline now directly annotates top-level sequences, not scaffolds
- May 4th NCBI Minute: Linking PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov
- New NCBI video on YouTube: "Sequence Viewer: Display dbVar Supporting Calls"
- Webinars on April 29 present BLAST, human variation & medical genetic records
- NCBI to assist UC Davis in June hackathon
- New NCBI video on YouTube: Navigating the NIH Manuscript Submission Process
- Articles in Nucleic Acids Research Database 2016 Issue discuss NCBI databases, updates and future plans
- Maximizing PubChem: webinar on April 20th will cover new and future features
- NCBI News, March 2016
- Specialized database with unique search interface added to Zika virus resource page
- Register for the April 6th webinar: Using NCBI Databases with Tools that Predict Genomic Variant Effects
- Register for the April 13th webinar, Submitting Data to NCBI and BioSample
- New NCBI video on YouTube provides strategies to search ClinVar efficiently
- RefSeq release 75 is now available
- March 23, 2016: NCBI to offer workshop for advanced SRA and dbGaP users
- Search for WGS Sequences using Stand-alone BLAST!
- First of the New Bookshelf NCBI Insights Blog Posts - New Streptococcus pyogenes book
- NCBI is phasing out sequence GIs - use Accession.Version instead!
- Tree Viewer's Next Update is Available
- NCBI News, February 2016
- NCBI to assist Brandeis University in hosting Boston genomics hackathon in April
- GenBank release 212.0 available via FTP
- March 2nd webinar: NCBI Resources for Cancer Researchers
- Zika virus resource page provides access to nucleotide, protein sequences from latest outbreak
- dbSNP Build 146 for salmon, barrel medic, cottonwood and mouse now available
- Rotavirus resource uses standardized metadata and annotations, suite of tools to make it easier to search, download and analyze sequences
- New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: Eukaryotic Genome Data Curation at NCBI
- NCBI Insights blog post: Professors: "NCBI can help you streamline your teaching and research efforts"
- New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: Viral resources at NCBI
- NCBI to assist Louisiana State University in South and Southeast regional genomics hackathon
- Variation Viewer 1.5 adds facet toggling, updated backend data
- February 17th webinar: "Five ways to submit next-gen sequencing data to NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA)"
- NCBI News, January 2016
- NCBI News, December 2015
- NCBI staff will attend the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIV in January
- BLAST+ executables 2.3.0 now available
- GenBank release 211.0 is now available via FTP
- January 7th: Explore new graphical viewer track options with The NCBI Minute
- January 5th webinar: Eukaryotic Genome Data Curation at NCBI
- New on NCBI Insights blog: "The NCBI Minute: quick introductions to NCBI resources"
- dbSNP Build 146 for non-human organisms is now available
- New NCBI Insights blog posts highlight SRA Toolkit, Run Selector
- December 17th webinar: "Accessing 1000 Genomes Project Data"
- Registration open for December 16th NCBI Minute: "New Faceted Advanced Search in dbGaP Provides Easy Access to Relevant Data"
- NCBI News, November 2015
- dbSNP human build 146 available through Entrez and FTP
- Tree Viewer 1.7.5 now available
- NCBI releases first five lectures of NCBI NOW on YouTube
- December 2nd NCBI Minute webinar: Finding Genes in PubMed
- New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: "Explore Gene pages at NCBI: Variation and Expression"
- PubChem adds a legacy designation for outdated data
- NCBI to hold three-day genomics hackathon in January
- Sequence Viewer 3.10.5 adds support for track sets with non-default options
- RefSeq Release 73 is now available
- Tree Viewer 1.7 now available
- Registration open for November 18 NCBI Minute, "The New ClinVar Submission Wizard"
- Researchers identify potential alternative to CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools
- dbVar publishes October 2015 data release
- Registration open for November 12th webinar, "PubMed for Scientists"
- NCBI News, October 2015
- Variation Viewer 1.4.1 is now available with optimized Variant Filters and Table performance
- New on the NCBI YouTube channel: "LinkOut - Linking to Datasets, Databases and More"
- OSIRIS Version 2.5 is now available
- Outdated Genomes FTP directories will be archived on November 30, 2015
- GenBank release 210.0 is now available via FTP
- New on the NCBI YouTube channel: Learn how to view track sets and store track collections
- Larger word size in modified algorithm speeds up BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN search
- Variation Viewer 1.4 is now available with faster filter performance, track sets & collections
- Sequence Viewer 3.10 adds support for track sets and track collections, performance optimization and more
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Annotating the Coding Region (CDS)"
- NCBI staff to attend and present at ASHG 2015
- NCBI News, September 2015
- First offering of NCBI NOW (Next generation sequencing Online Workshop) to begin October 13, 2015
- September 30th NCBI Minute: Preview of NCBI at American Society of Human Genetics 2015
- "Create a Biosketch with SciENcv" webinar recording on YouTube
- October 2nd webinar - LinkOut: Linking to datasets, databases and more
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "Finding Chemical Probes & Modulators - The Hunt for New Chemical Reagents and Medicines"
- NCBI to hold fourth offering of "A Librarian's Guide to NCBI"
- September 16th NCBI Minute: Accessing the Human Genomics Standard Data (Genome in a Bottle) at NCBI
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "Identifying Chemical Targets - Finding Potential Cross-Reactions and Predicting Side Effects"
- RefSeq Release 72 is now available
- HIV-1 interaction datasets in Gene updated
- Genome Workbench 2.9.5 now available
- dbSNP build 145 (pig, chicken, sorghum, gibbon) now available
- NCBI News, August 2015
- NCBI annotates 250th eukaryote with Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
- September 2nd NCBI Minute: "Introducing SmartBLAST, a Rapid Protein Identification Tool"
- GenBank release 209.0 is now available via FTP
- Tree Viewer 1.6 now available
- New NCBI video: "NCBI's 1000 Genomes Browser: Introduction"
- August 26th webinar: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Determining and Annotating Coding Regions (CDS) for Eukaryotic Genes"
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "SciENcv Updated to Support New NIH Biosketch Format"
- Genomes FTP site update (version 1.2) expands taxonomic scope and more
- CCDS release 19 for mouse added to Gene
- NCBI News, July 2015
- New NCBI Insights blog post: Introducing PubMed Labs, an NCBI initiative to include user community in product development from beginning
- August 12th NCBI Minute: Using Variation Reporter to Map and Annotate Your Own Variant Calls
- Sequence Viewer 3.9 adds data upload options to API, improved response time and more
- August 5th NCBI Minute: "Using EDirect's Xtract Utility to Parse NCBI BLAST XML Output"
- July 30th webinar: "Using SciENcv to Create Your NIH Biosketch"
- July 22nd NCBI Minute webinar: Find disease-related variants in ClinVar
- RefSeq Release 71 is now available!
- July 15th webinar: "EDirect: Bringing the E-Utilities to the UNIX Command Line"
- NCBI News, June 2015
- Tree Viewer version 1.5 improves performance
- June 3rd webinar "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Coding Region Annotation" video up on YouTube
- June 10th webinar "Phylogenetic Trees in Genome Workbench" video up on YouTube
- New dbVar webinar available on NCBI YouTube channel
- GenBank release 208.0 is now available via FTP
- NCBI Southern California Regional Workshops to be held June 30 - July 2
- New YouTube video: "Sequence Viewer: Navigate Objects with Jump Arrows"
- UniVec build 9.0 now available for VecScreen searches and FTP
- BLAST+ stand-alone updated to version 2.2.31
- Complete MERS coronavirus genomes from China and South Korea are in GenBank
- dbSNP build 144 now available
- NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.8 available
- June 10th webinar: "Working with Phylogenetic Trees in Genome Workbench"
- Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.14 now available online and via FTP
- The SRA Submission App on BaseSpace lets you submit directly to SRA
- New NCBI YouTube video: "NCBI Minute: Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Update"
- NCBI News, May 2015
- New NCBI YouTube video: "Genome Workbench: Import BAMs and Export Alignments"
- June 3rd webinar: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Coding Region Annotation"
- NCBI to hold three-day genomics hackathon in August
- New NCBI YouTube Video: NCBI's Tree Viewer
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI's First Hackathon: Advanced Bioinformatic Analysis of Next-Gen Sequencing Data"
- May 26th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Update"
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI RefSeq's Antimicrobial Peptide Indexed Field: Facilitating Novel Antibiotic Discovery"
- Export data into Genome Workbench with Tree Viewer version 1.4
- June 9th hands-on workshops at NLM will show users how to search NCBI's molecular databases
- Genome Workbench 2.9.0 now available
- New NCBI Insights blog post - Accessing the Hidden Kingdom: Fungal ITS Reference Sequences"
- RefSeq release 70 is now available with re-annotated bacterial genomes for uniformity across genomes and species
- May 13th webinar: "Introducing dbVar, the NCBI Database of Large-Scale Genetic Variation
- NCBI News, April 2015
- May 6th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Connecting with PubMed Commons"
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "NIHMS Users: Do You Know How Often Your Paper is Being Accessed via PMC?"
- April 29th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding Genomes and Annotations by Searching NCBI Assembly"
- April 21st webinar: Rebroadcast of "NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central Submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv"
- April 15th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding and Getting the Data You Want from NCBI in Less than Three Minutes - Introducing BioProject'
- NIH issued statement on use of dbGaP in the Cloud
- NCBI News, March 2015
- Updated human and mouse genome annotations now available
- April 8th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Introducing MOLE-BLAST"
- April 1st webinar: "A Practical Guide to Using NCBI BLAST on the Web"
- dbSNP Build 143 Phase II now available
- New NCBI Insights blog post: "Exploring Entrez Direct: Parsing the XML Output of E-utilities"
- NCBI homepage update includes action buttons, category pages
- NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.6 available
- March 18th webinar: "Using the dbGaP Data Browser to browse aligned reads and genotypes from the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes"
- NCBI News, February 2015
- March 5th webinar: "NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv"
- "A Submitter's Guide to GenBank" webinar parts 1 and 2 on YouTube
- NCBI Insights blog: How to delegate authority to others to edit/create your profile and Collections
- NCBI webinar on February 25: The Next Generation of Access to Sequencing Data: Using NCBI's SRA Toolkit to Access Data from dbGaP and SRA
- NCBI Genomes FTP site update adds analysis sets and other data
- GenBank release 206.0 is now available via FTP
- Mouse, cow and zebrafish added to dbSNP build 142
- 1000 Genomes Browser updated to include Phase 3 May 2013 call set
- NCBI News, January 2015
- NIHMS's new look streamlines the manuscript submission process
- Genome Workbench 2.8.10 available
- Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.13 now available online and via FTP
- NCBI support for SOAP E-Utility ends July 1, 2015
- GenBank surpasses one trillion total bases of publicly available sequence data
- Nucleic Acids Research Database 2015 Issue illustrates NCBI databases, updates and future plans
- NCBI YouTube channel: A million views and counting!
- NCBI's next webinar is The Statistics of Local Pairwise Sequence Alignment, Parts 1 and 2
- E-Utilities users: Keep up to date with changes via the Gene database RSS feed
- RefSeq release 69 available on FTP
- NCBI annotates 200th eukaryote
- NCBI staff will attend International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIII
- NCBI News, December 2014
- NCBI webinar A Submitter's Guide to GenBank, Part 2 on January 7th
- GenBank release 205.0 is now available via FTP
- Bald eagle and other bird genome sequence and annotation data publicly available at NCBI
- Citation Exporter Feature Now Available in PubMed Central
- New NCBI Insights blog post: Designing exon-specific primers for the human genome
- NCBI News, November 2014
- NCBI to hold two-day genomics hackathon in January
- NCBI BioSample includes curated list of over 400 known misidentified and contaminated cell lines
- NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline breaks record; over 100 organisms annotated this year
- NCBI BankIt webinar on December 17th
- NCBI E-Utilities webinar video now on YouTube
- BLAST URL domain change in effect December 1
- RefSeq release 68 available on FTP
- dbVar releases 1000 Genomes Phase 3 structural variants
- dbVar releases copy number variation (CNV) data from developmental delay study cited in Nature Reviews Genetics
- NCBI News, October 2014
- BLAST+ 2.2.30 released
- New Genome BLAST selector on the BLAST homepage
- Next NCBI webinar on November 5th
- GenBank release 204.0 is now available via FTP
- dbSNP human Build 142 released
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace provides the easiest way to start an NCBI BLAST instance
- Variation Reporter version 1.4 released
- Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.12
- Updates to assembly alignments for NCBI Remap service
- New NCBI Insights blog: Sequence updates in human assembly GRCh38: improving gene annotation
- Zebrafish (Danio rerio) GRCz10 now annotated
- dbVar now accepts VCF submissions of structural variation data
- New NCBI Insights blog post: NCBI's medical genetics resources
- NCBI webinar on E-Utilities October 15th
- NCBI News, September 2014
- NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.4 available
- HIV-1, human interaction database updated
- Virus Variation Resource pages for Ebolavirus, MERS coronoavirus give quick and easy access to related sequences and other data
- Simplified FASTA headers included on new NCBI Genomes FTP site
- RefSeq release 67 available on FTP
- Identical Protein Report Display option added to Protein database
- NCBI News, August 2014
- Milestone: NCBI annotates 150th eukaryotic genome
- The new NCBI Genomes FTP site is here!
- New NCBI YouTube video: Downloading FASTA sequences in Sequence Viewer
- Rat annotation release 105 now on Gene, FTP, sequence and BLAST databases
- New NCBI Insights blog: How to comply with NIH Public Access Policy
- "BLAST in the Cloud!" is the newest video on the NCBI Webinars YouTube playlist
- GenBank release 203.0 is now available via FTP
- Genome Workbench 2.8.0 released
- "NCBI's OSIRIS: Quality Assurance for DNA Forensic Profiling" webinar on September 17th
- UniVec build 8.0 now available for VecScreen searches and FTP
- NCBI News, July 2014
- General Research Use collection streamlines access to patient-level data in dbGaP
- NCBI/CDC/FDA/USDA collaboration using whole genome sequencing (WGS) to improve food safety is honored with an HHSinnovates award
- Major revision of the NCBI genomes FTP site this summer
- NCBI webinar "Using the New NCBI Variation Viewer to Explore Human Genetic Variation" on August 13th
- RefSeq release 66 available on FTP site
- NCBI's latest YouTube video presents special features in SciENcv
- "BLAST in the Cloud!" webinar on July 30th showcases NCBI-BLAST Amazon Machine Image
- NCBI News, June 2014
- BLAST machine image (AMI) hosted at Amazon Web Services
- Green monkey annotation release 100 now available
- NCBI's latest YouTube video explores Variation Viewer
- GenBank release 202.0 is now available via FTP
- RefSeq model sequences can now be constructed from genomic and transcript sequences
- Genome Workbench 2.7.19 released
- dbSNP human Build 141 now available
- New features simplify access to annotation information in NCBI's Gene
- NCBI News, May 2014
- BLAST URL domain changes to take effect December 1, 2014
- GTR/ClinVar/MedGen webinar on June 18 will explore NCBI resources
- RefSeq release 65 available on FTP site
- The NIH Genetic Testing Registry now has information on more than 3,500 cancer tests
- SciENcv 2.0 brings major improvements to My NCBI
- NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.2 available
- NCBI News, April 2014
- Coffee Break tutorial: The promise of PCSK9
- New NCBI Insights Blog: Sequence updates in human genome assembly GRCh38
- HomoloGene release 68 now available
- Milestone: NCBI's Taxonomy database contains over 300,000 species with formal scientific names!
- GenBank release 201.0 is now available via FTP
- Enterococci: From commensals to leading causes of drug resistant infection on Bookshelf
- CCDS release 16 for mouse now public in Gene
- New on the Bookshelf: The Art and Politics of Science, a memoir by Dr. Harold Varmus
- Coffee Break tutorial: Brown fat and obesity
- NCBI News, March 2014
- New NCBI YouTube video: Create custom databases for BLAST
- Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on May 6th & 7th!
- NCBI will attend the 2014 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
- NCBI requests feedback on proposed BLAST XML specification update
- RefSeq full release 64 out
- Orthologous genes and gene regions now accessible through Gene
- New dbGaP online system for registering studies and applying for data access introduces time-saving features
- New Sorting and Output Options for E-utilities
- NCBI News, February 2014
- NCBI News, January 2014
- Human CCDS release 15 now available on web and FTP
- RefSeq release 63 now available
- Taxonomy database now shows type material, sequences from type specimens and strains now labeled in Entrez
- New NCBI Insights blog: NCBI Remap tool helps you transition to newest human reference genome assembly, GRCh38
- Sequence Viewer PDF rendering available - YouTube video tutorial
- Genome Workbench Update 2.7.12
- VAST+ released: Find similar 3D structures for macromolecular complexes
- NCBI Insights blog: A Librarian's Guide to NCBI - an intensive training course for medical librarians to be offered April 2014
- Mouse genome annotation release 104 available
- BLAST+ 2.2.29 now available
- NCBI News, December 2013
- New human genome assembly (GRCh38) released!
- Annotation reports now generated for recently annotated organisms
- Meet PubMed Commons: The new comments forum in PubMed
- Rat genome annotation release 104
- New NCBI Handbook chapters: Eukaryotic and prokaryotic genome annotation pipelines
- Sequence Viewer has been updated
- GenBank release 199 now available
- NCBI Video: Submitting manuscripts on NIHMS
- PMCID - PMID - Manuscript ID - DOI Converter Upgraded
- NCBI News, November 2013
- NCBI Insights blog post: Creating custom BLAST databases
- SRA milestone: Over 2 petabases of sequence data
- Planned change in bacterial strain-level information management
- Exploring next-gen sequencing experiments with SRA-BLAST
- NCBI Insights blog post: Saved Searches and E-mail Alerts
- RefSeq release 62 now available
- NCBI's Eukaryotic Annotation Pipeline has now annotated the genomes for 100 different organisms!
- NCBI's 25th Anniversary and The Jim Gray eScience Award
- New SNP data available for several organisms!
- Update on PubMed Commons' comments in the early pilot phase
- NCBI News, October 2013
- Human CCDS release 14 is now available in the Gene database
- New NCBI Insights Blog Post: Joining PubMed Commons - A step-by-step guide
- GenBank Release 198.0 is Available
- PubMed Commons is now live!
- NCBI Staff will be attending the ASHG 2013 Meeting
- Organism BLAST pages now use top-level RefSeq genomic records instead of scaffold records
- NCBI News, September 2013
- NCBI News, August 2013
- NCBI News, July 2013
- NCBI News, June 2013
- Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on July 30 & 31!
- Upload and graphically compare your own data with NCBI Epigenomics tracks
- SRA-BLAST has been updated with new features and performance enhancements
- Welcome to the NCBI News site!
- Dr. David Lipman Receives White House "Open Science" Champions of Change Award on Behalf of NCBI
- GenBank Release 196.0 is Available
- New RefSeq Bacterial Protein Products and Emerging RefSeq Data Model
- NCBI News, May 2013
- NCBI News, April 2013
- New publication: "BLAST: a more efficient report with usability improvements."
- "A Librarian's Guide to NCBI" Course was a Success!
- GenBank Release 195.0 is Available
- New Educational Initiative: A Librarian's Guide to NCBI
- PubChem Releases New and Enhanced Webpage Widgets
- BLAST 2.2.28 now available
- Try it out! The New PubChem Upload Beta Site
- New database options in Microbial Genomes BLAST: Representative Genomes
- NCBI News, March 2013
- New CDD Release v3.10 Includes an Updated PSSM Calculation
- NCBI Presents Genetic Variation and Medical Resources at the ACMG 2013 Meeting
- Genome Workbench 2.7.0 Now Available
- RefSeq Release 58 is Available for FTP
- NCBI now provides interim GFF-formatted updates for human and mouse refseq annotations
- Genome Workbench is the Featured Resource in OpenHelix's "Tip of the Week"
- New Quick Tip on NCBI Insights Blog - How To Format Sequence Data For GenBank Submissions
- NCBI News, February 2013
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