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Try the new My NCBI Feature: SciENcv
The National Institutes of Health has issued an invitation to researchers to test the beta version of the Science Experts Network (SciENcv). SciENcv is a new feature available in My NCBI that helps users create an online professional profile that can be made public to share with others. The addition of this new feature complements My NCBI’s My Bibliography which aids users in managing a list of their citations (journal articles, books/chapters, patents, presentations and meetings) which can be saved directly from PubMed or manually added using My Bibliography templates.
Read more...Comments Requested: NIH genomic data sharing policy
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking public comments on the draft Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy that promotes sharing, for research purposes, of human and non-human genomic data generated from NIH-supported and NIH-conducted research.
RefSeq release 61 now available
The complete RefSeq release 61 contains 41,958,567 records, 33,139,114 proteins, 4,528,216 RNAs, and sequences from 29,414 different organisms. The new release reflects SNP Build 138 and includes human annotation 105 with new gene model splice variants from RNA-Seq data. For additional information on the new splice variants, see the NCBI News item about human annotation release 105. More details about RefSeq release 61 are in the release statistics and the release notes.
A new NCBI Insights post about the use of NCBI Data for scientific discovery
A new NCBI Insights blog post highlights how three research groups reused data from NCBI to make important discoveries.
New PubChem social media sites help keep users up-to-date!
The PubChem Project has several new ways for users interested in the chemical and bioactivity resource to learn about announcements, updates and new tools.