News from July 2013
Tenth Anniversary of RefSeq FTP Releases
The July 2013 RefSeq FTP release marks the 10th anniversary of RefSeq comprehensive FTP releases. We mark this occasion with a sincere "Thank you!" to the scientific community for continued interest and support, comments, and useful suggestions for improvements that have been made over the past years.
RefSeq Release 60 is Available for FTP
The complete RefSeq release 60 contains 40,913,699 records, 32,504,738 proteins, 4,243,209 RNAs, and sequences from 28,560 different organisms. See the Release statistics file or Release notes for more information.
New NCBI Insights Post: "New Pandoravirus Sequences are Accessible in GenBank"
A new NCBI Insights Blog post provides information on a recent article that describes the discovery and characterization of two “giant” viruses that are proposed to comprise the first members of the “Pandoravirus” genus. The authors of this publication have submitted assembled and annotated genomes to NCBI, which are currently available in the Nucleotide database with the accessions KC977571 and KC977570.
Genome Workbench 7.6 with Publication Quality Graphics Export
The latest release 2.7.6 (2.7.5) of Genome Workbench, NCBI's standalone sequence analysis and annotation platform, now produces publication quality graphical output (PDF). A new tutorial shows how to use this helpful feature. The release notes have more information on this and other improvements.