Mar 15, 2016

RefSeq release 75 is accessible via FTP and through NCBI’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript and protein data available as of March 7, 2016 and includes 92,936,289 records, 61,034,675 proteins, 14,035,988 RNAs, and sequences from 58,776 organisms.

Mar 14, 2016

On March 23 at 12 PM EST, NCBI staff will present a workshop for advanced users of SRA and dbGaP who are interested in using public datasets, and:

Mar 7, 2016

It is now much easier to search WGS (Whole Genome Shotgun) with stand-alone BLAST on your own computer. New tools from the NCBI allow you to BLAST just the WGS projects you are interested in. You can also search a taxonomic subset of WGS (e.g., all human or all bacterial sequences). These new tools for WGS make the existing search mechanism obsolete.