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Monday, October 17, 2016
As announced in March 2016, NCBI is now in the process of removing GI numbers from the presentations of nucleotide and protein sequence records. The affected presentations are the (default) flat file (GenBank and GenPept) views, along with FASTA views. NCBI will be releasing these changes on or soon after October 17, 2016.
Monday, October 17, 2016
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel is a recording of the October 5th NCBI Minute, which provides a quick overview of NCBI activities at this year's upcoming meeting related to ClinVar, dbGaP, GRCh38 and other topics. In this video, you'll find out why NCBI goes to scientific meetings and how ASHG attendees benefit from having NCBI at ASHG.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
On October 26th, NCBI staff will introduce two new BLAST databases: the RefSeq Representative Genomes database and the Model Organisms or Landmark protein database.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
The NCBI Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSA Viewer) has recently been updated. This new version has an improved rendering mechanism for displaying projected features, improved navigation over gaps in alignment, and improved security and compatibility with HTTPS protocols. A full list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes is available in the MSA Viewer release notes.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) will present "Insider's Guide to Accessing NLM Data: Welcome to E-utilities for PubMed".
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) release 20 compares NCBI's Homo sapiens annotation release 108 to Ensembl's release 85, and is now available in Gene. This update adds 1,158 new CCDS IDs and 98 genes into the human CCDS set. CCDS release 20 includes a total of 32,524 CCDS IDs that correspond to 18,892 GeneIDs.
Friday, September 30, 2016
On October 11th, the NCBI Minute will be a discussion of changes made to the BLAST standalone distribution due to the switch to HTTPS and the transition of the sequence databases to accession.version as the primary identifier.
Friday, September 30, 2016
The new version of the BLAST+ executables offers support for HTTPS, accession.version as the primary sequence identifier, support for composition-based statistics with RPSTBLASTN, and a new taxonomic organism report. See more details about these updates on BLAST News. A full list of new features, improvements and bug fixes is available in the release notes.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Next Wednesday, October 5th, NCBI staff will give a brief overview of our activities at this year's ASHG meeting related to ClinVar, dbGaP, GRCh38 and other topics, and how these will benefit ASHG attendees.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Sequence Viewer 3.16 brings several new features, improvements and bug fixes to the graphical viewer, including improved compliance with HTTPS protocol requirements, a new track type, and improved labeling to avoid label duplication. For a full list of changes, see the release notes.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
GenBank release 215.0 (08/19/2016) has 196,120,831 traditional records containing 217,971,437,647 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 359,796,497 WGS records containing 1,637,224,970,324 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 113,179,607 TSA records containing 103,399,742,586 base pairs of sequence data.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
The Genomes-announce email list has been reactivated. To sign up for the Genomes-announce Listserv, go to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/genomes-announce.
Friday, September 23, 2016
On Wednesday, September 28th, at 3 PM EDT, NCBI will hold a developers' forum for those who use large amounts of NCBI data. The forum will help us provide you with better access to NCBI data.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
On October 4th, 5th, and 6th, the University of Michigan’s Taubman Health Sciences Library will host a series of NCBI workshops that can also be streamed remotely. The workshops are: Navigating NCBI’s Molecular Data Using the Integrated Entrez System and BLAST, A Practical Guide to NCBI BLAST and EDirect: Command Line Access to NCBI’s Biomolecular Databases. Please see the Taubman Health Sciences Library Remote Site Registration Page for details.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Magic-BLAST is a new tool for mapping large sets of next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Magic-BLAST executables for LINUX, MacOSX, and Windows as well as the source files are available on the FTP site.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
We have scheduled another round of HTTPS tests, following up from the initial tests performed on September 15. More information can be found on an NCBI Insights Blog post.