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.
Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on July 30 & 31!
Spaces are still available for the free, 2-day NCBI Discovery Workshops to be held on the NIH Campus on July 30 and 31, 2013. For more information and to register, visit the Discovery Workshops homepage.
SRA-BLAST has been updated with new features and performance enhancements
SRA-BLAST has undergone a dramatic update, both in terms of user interface and search performance. These updates to SRA-BLAST make it an even more useful tool for searching through more than 700 trillion open-access bases currently housed within the Sequence Read Archive (SRA).
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