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Researchers identify potential alternative to CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools
An international team of CRISPR-Cas researchers has identified three new naturally-occurring systems that show potential for genome editing. The discovery and characterization of these systems is expected to further expand the genome editing toolbox, opening new avenues for biomedical research. The research, published October 22nd in the journal Molecular Cell, was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health.
Read more...Genome Workbench 2.10 now available
Genome Workbench 2.10 includes a reworked BLAST tool and new functionalities in Tree View. For the full list of features, improvements and fixes, see the release notes.
Sequence Viewer 3.11 now available
Sequence Viewer 3.11, now available, contains a number of new features, improvements and bug fixes, including the ability to overlay multiple graphs in one track (for more information, please see the demo pages and API documentation), improved track descriptions for better integration with track management, updated SNP tracks, and tooltips for dbVar. A full list of features, improvements and bug fixes is included in the release notes.
February 3rd webinar: "How to Upload and Analyze dbGaP Data in the Cloud"
In two weeks, NCBI will show you how to upload and analyze dbGaP data through the SRA Toolkit and Amazon Web Services.
RefSeq Release 74 now available on FTP
RefSeq Release 74 is now accessible online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript and protein data available as of January 11, 2016 and includes 89,458,499 records, 56,496,614 proteins, 13,719,136 RNAs, and sequences from 57,993 organisms.
January 28th webinar: "Genomic Data Sharing with dbGaP: Registration and Submission" for IRP investigators
In two weeks, NCBI will present a webinar for Intramural Research Program (IRP) investigators engaged in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and other genomic research efforts at NIH. Topics covered will include working with your Genomics Program Administrator to register your study in dbGaP and preparing your project metadata files, phenotypes and molecular data for submission to dbGaP.