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Bethesda (MD):
National Center for Biotechnology Information (US)
; 1991-
2012
Publication No.: 94-3272
ISSN: 1060-8788
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NCBI News, May 2017
NCBI to phase out support for non-human organism data in dbSNP and dbVar
Eleven eukaryotic annotations added to RefSeq in April 2017
NCBI to assist with NYGC Genomics Hackathon June 19-21
GenBank release 219.0 is available via FTP
May 10th NCBI Minute: How to Locate and Use Human Genomes and Annotations from NCBI
NCBI News, April 2017
April 26th NCBI Minute: Medical Genetics Summaries on the NCBI Bookshelf - a pharmacogenomics resource for clinicians
Maize (Zea mays) genome annotation release 101 is now available!
dbSNP FTP file format change planned for early 2018
dbSNP's human build 150 has doubled the amount of RefSNP records!
NCBI researchers and collaborators discover novel group of giant viruses
April 19th NCBI Minute: Magic-BLAST, NCBI's next-gen sequence alignment program
Six functional prototypes available from the March NCBI hackathon
Eight new eukaryotic genome annotations added to RefSeq
New Genome Data Viewer access page
NCBI News, March 2017
Sequence Viewer 3.20 is now available
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.16 now available online and via FTP
NCBI to assist with BioFrontiers Hackathon in May
NCBI will attend the AACR Annual Meeting 2017
Genome Workbench 2.11.10 now available
Tree Viewer version 1.13 implements new search in tree features
Complete RefSeq genome annotation results represented in UCSC genome browser
March 29th NCBI Minute: How to Submit Your 16S rRNA Data to NCBI
NCBI will attend the 2017 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
RefSeq release 81 now public
GenBank release 218.0 is now available
Seven new annotations added to RefSeq
Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.4 is now available
Magic-BLAST 1.2.0 now available
Expression section and bulk datasets added to NCBI Gene
NCBI News, February 2017
NCBI Insights | PubMed Citations: A New, Faster Process for Correcting Errors
March 1st NCBI Minute: Setting up new data alerts with MyNCBI
Bottlenose dolphin annotation release 101
New video on YouTube: Embed the NCBI Sequence Viewer into Your Pages
NLM Webinar series: "Insider's Guide to Accessing NLM Data: EDirect for PubMed"
Tree Viewer version 1.12 implements new API to markup trees
Interim annotation updates for the human GRCh37p.13 and GRCh38.p10 assemblies
February 22nd webinar: Introducing the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
SmartBLAST updated to provide more information, database matches
Sequence Viewer 3.19 is now available
New NCBI Insights post: New Web Services for Comparing and Grouping Sequence Variants
NCBI to host genomics hackathon March 20-22
NCBI News, January 2017
Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.3 is now available
February 8th NCBI Minute: Finding Gene, Protein and Chemical Names, Aliases and Synonyms
BLAST+ 2.6.0 offers improved support for accession.version
New NCBI Insights post: Visualize and Interpret Alignment Data with the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer
January 31st NCBI Minute: New version of E-utilities supports accession.version
RefSeq release 80 now available; GI identifiers to be removed in next release (March 2017)
New videos on YouTube: Clone DB and clone placements
GenBank release 217.0 is available via FTP
Genome Workbench 2.11.7 now available
NCBI News, December 2016
New YouTube video: Sequence Viewer: Display Translation Discrepancies
New NCBI Insights post: Converting Lots of GI Numbers to Accession.version
CCDS release 21 for mouse is public in Gene
December 21st NCBI Minute: Bulk Conversion of NCBI Sequence GI Identifiers to accession.version
Variant interpretations from Illumina double ClinVar data
The new Human Genome Resources site: a portal for exploration of the human genome
Sequence Viewer 3.18 is now available
New on NCBI Insights: Converting GI Numbers to Accession.version
NCBI Tech Talk and Booth at the American Society for Cell Biology 2016 National Meeting
NCBI News, November 2016
Evidence Viewer has been retired
NCBI, NLM, NHGRI to hold on-campus hackathon January 9-11
Genome Workbench 2.11.5 now available
November 17th webinar: NCBI Resources for Agricultural Research
RefSeq release 79 now available
New NCBI Insights post: Identifying and Correlating Chemical Names and Synonyms
New NCBI Insights blog post: Clearing Up Confusion with Human Gene Symbols and Names
Permanent redirect to HTTPS will occur on November 10, 2016
New video on YouTube: The New MSA Viewer
NCBI News, October 2016
November 9th webinar: PubMed for Clinicians
NLM In Focus blog profiles Dr. Kim Pruitt, NCBI staff scientist
Genome Workbench 2.11.0 now available
GI numbers will be removed from sequence record presentations
New YouTube video: NCBI Staff at ASHG 2016
October 26th NCBI Minute: New BLAST Databases Provide Cleaner Results
Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer 1.1 is now available
NLM presents "Insider's Guide" webinar on E-utilities and PubMed on October 19th
CCDS release 20 for human now public in Gene
NCBI News, September 2016
October 11th NCBI Minute: BLAST+ 2.5.0 with Support for HTTPS, accession.version Identifiers and Much More
BLAST+ 2.5.0 released with support for HTTPS, accession.version and more
October 5th webinar: NCBI at ASHG 2016
Sequence Viewer 3.16 is now available
GenBank release 215.0 is now available via FTP
Genomes-announce listserv reactivated
NCBI to hold Developers' Forum September 28th
October 4-6: Stream the University of Michigan NCBI workshops
Introducing Magic-BLAST
Scheduled: Next Round of HTTPS Tests
NCBI's Bryant and Bolton receive 2016 Herman Skolnik Award for PubChem database
September 21st webinar: Update on NCBI's Transition to HTTPS
New video on YouTube: Tree Viewer - Display Large Trees
Genomes FTP site update (version 1.3) adds new data formats and more
RefSeq release 78 is now available
New on NCBI Insights: The Future of Existing GI Numbers at NCBI
Leiden Open Variation Database to be retired September 30, 2016
New on NCBI Insights: Find, Browse and Follow Biomedical Literature with PubMed Journals
September 7th webinar: The E-Utilities in an Age without GI Numbers
October 24-26: Hackathon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
NCBI News, August 2016
Genomes FTP site data organization to change on September 20, 2016
dbVar July 2016 data release includes new 1000 Genomes Phase III structural variants
August 31st NCBI Minute: Downloading Genome Data from the NCBI FTP Site
VAST+ update provides refined alignments
September 12th class at NLM: EDirect - Command Line Access to NCBI's Biomolecular Databases
HIV-1 datasets in Gene updated
NCBI News, July 2016
HTTPS at NCBI: Guidance for NCBI web API users
dbSNP build 148 for corn, fruit fly, rice and 8 other organisms available
August 3rd webinar: NCBI Targeted Loci: RefSeq Ribosomal RNA Sequences for Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis
Tree Viewer 1.10 visualizes large phylogenetic trees up to 100,000 nodes
NCBI Insights blog post: NCBI is Phasing out Sequence GIs - Here's What You Need to Know
July 27th NCBI Minute: Important Changes to NCBI Web Protocols
Sequence Viewer 3.15 is now available
July 20th NCBI Minute: Important Changes Coming to Sequence Databases
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.15 now available online and via FTP
RefSeq release 77 is now available
Mouse and zebrafish genome annotations updated
NCBI News, June 2016
Genome Workbench 2.10.7 now available
July 6th NCBI Minute: Quickly Find Coding Sequences Using ORFfinder
Human genome Annotation Release 108 incorporates new RefSeq sequences, predicts new variants
GenBank release 214.0 is now available via FTP
June 29th webinar: Downloading Exon and Coding Region Sequences for Genes
International HapMap Browser to go offline June 16, 2016
NCBI to hold hackathon on NIH campus in August
BLAST+ 2.4.0 now available
NCBI will transition to HTTPS on September 30, 2016
Tree Viewer 1.9 visualizes medium-large phylogenetic trees
June 10th webinar: Finding Systematic Reviews at PubMed Health and PubMed
MutaBind: Evaluating the effects of sequence variants and disease mutations on protein-protein interactions
Browse histones, analyze sequences with revamped HistoneDB 2.0
June 15th webinar: Using NCBI Resources and Variant Interpretation Tools for the Clinical Community
NCBI News, May 2016
Epigenomics database to be retired June 1, 2016
NCBI launches new Twitter account for NCBI Bookshelf
New NCBI Insights blog post: Fast Sequence Inspection with ORFfinder and SmartBLAST (PubMed Labs)
RefSeq release 76 is now available
Genome Browsers section added to Gene
Sequence Viewer version 3.14 upgrades platform
New NCBI Variation summary page highlights all organisms in dbSNP or dbVar with full assembly annotations
NCBI launches web-based iCn3D, a new viewer for 3D macromolecular structures
NCBI annotates 300th organism with the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
Genome Workbench 2.10.5 now available
Preview the new BLAST home page!
NCBI and RCSB PDB to assist ISCB in Sequence-Structure hackathon at ISMB Orlando 2016
May 18th webinar: Using VDB BLAST Clients to Search Whole Genome Shotgun Contigs (WGS) and Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Data at the NCBI
New NCBI video on YouTube: ProSplign comes to Genome Workbench
New NCBI video on YouTube: Submitting BioSample Data to NCBI
GenBank release 213.0 is now available via FTP
NCBI News, April 2016
dbSNP build 147 data for human, chicken, soybean and more are available
Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline now directly annotates top-level sequences, not scaffolds
May 4th NCBI Minute: Linking PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov
New NCBI video on YouTube: "Sequence Viewer: Display dbVar Supporting Calls"
Webinars on April 29 present BLAST, human variation & medical genetic records
NCBI to assist UC Davis in June hackathon
New NCBI video on YouTube: Navigating the NIH Manuscript Submission Process
Articles in Nucleic Acids Research Database 2016 Issue discuss NCBI databases, updates and future plans
Maximizing PubChem: webinar on April 20th will cover new and future features
NCBI News, March 2016
Specialized database with unique search interface added to Zika virus resource page
Register for the April 6th webinar: Using NCBI Databases with Tools that Predict Genomic Variant Effects
Register for the April 13th webinar, Submitting Data to NCBI and BioSample
New NCBI video on YouTube provides strategies to search ClinVar efficiently
RefSeq release 75 is now available
March 23, 2016: NCBI to offer workshop for advanced SRA and dbGaP users
Search for WGS Sequences using Stand-alone BLAST!
First of the New Bookshelf NCBI Insights Blog Posts - New Streptococcus pyogenes book
NCBI is phasing out sequence GIs - use Accession.Version instead!
Tree Viewer's Next Update is Available
NCBI News, February 2016
NCBI to assist Brandeis University in hosting Boston genomics hackathon in April
GenBank release 212.0 available via FTP
March 2nd webinar: NCBI Resources for Cancer Researchers
Zika virus resource page provides access to nucleotide, protein sequences from latest outbreak
dbSNP Build 146 for salmon, barrel medic, cottonwood and mouse now available
Rotavirus resource uses standardized metadata and annotations, suite of tools to make it easier to search, download and analyze sequences
New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: Eukaryotic Genome Data Curation at NCBI
NCBI Insights blog post: Professors: "NCBI can help you streamline your teaching and research efforts"
New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: Viral resources at NCBI
NCBI to assist Louisiana State University in South and Southeast regional genomics hackathon
Variation Viewer 1.5 adds facet toggling, updated backend data
February 17th webinar: "Five ways to submit next-gen sequencing data to NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA)"
NCBI News, January 2016
Genome Workbench 2.10 now available
Sequence Viewer 3.11 now available
February 3rd webinar: "How to Upload and Analyze dbGaP Data in the Cloud"
RefSeq Release 74 now available on FTP
January 28th webinar: "Genomic Data Sharing with dbGaP: Registration and Submission" for IRP investigators
NCBI News, December 2015
NCBI staff will attend the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIV in January
BLAST+ executables 2.3.0 now available
GenBank release 211.0 is now available via FTP
January 7th: Explore new graphical viewer track options with The NCBI Minute
January 5th webinar: Eukaryotic Genome Data Curation at NCBI
New on NCBI Insights blog: "The NCBI Minute: quick introductions to NCBI resources"
dbSNP Build 146 for non-human organisms is now available
New NCBI Insights blog posts highlight SRA Toolkit, Run Selector
December 17th webinar: "Accessing 1000 Genomes Project Data"
Registration open for December 16th NCBI Minute: "New Faceted Advanced Search in dbGaP Provides Easy Access to Relevant Data"
NCBI News, November 2015
dbSNP human build 146 available through Entrez and FTP
Tree Viewer 1.7.5 now available
NCBI releases first five lectures of NCBI NOW on YouTube
December 2nd NCBI Minute webinar: Finding Genes in PubMed
New video on the NCBI YouTube channel: "Explore Gene pages at NCBI: Variation and Expression"
PubChem adds a legacy designation for outdated data
NCBI to hold three-day genomics hackathon in January
Sequence Viewer 3.10.5 adds support for track sets with non-default options
RefSeq Release 73 is now available
Tree Viewer 1.7 now available
Registration open for November 18 NCBI Minute, "The New ClinVar Submission Wizard"
Researchers identify potential alternative to CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools
dbVar publishes October 2015 data release
Registration open for November 12th webinar, "PubMed for Scientists"
NCBI News, October 2015
Variation Viewer 1.4.1 is now available with optimized Variant Filters and Table performance
New on the NCBI YouTube channel: "LinkOut - Linking to Datasets, Databases and More"
OSIRIS Version 2.5 is now available
Outdated Genomes FTP directories will be archived on November 30, 2015
GenBank release 210.0 is now available via FTP
New on the NCBI YouTube channel: Learn how to view track sets and store track collections
Larger word size in modified algorithm speeds up BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN search
Variation Viewer 1.4 is now available with faster filter performance, track sets & collections
Sequence Viewer 3.10 adds support for track sets and track collections, performance optimization and more
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Annotating the Coding Region (CDS)"
NCBI staff to attend and present at ASHG 2015
NCBI News, September 2015
First offering of NCBI NOW (Next generation sequencing Online Workshop) to begin October 13, 2015
September 30th NCBI Minute: Preview of NCBI at American Society of Human Genetics 2015
"Create a Biosketch with SciENcv" webinar recording on YouTube
October 2nd webinar - LinkOut: Linking to datasets, databases and more
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Finding Chemical Probes & Modulators - The Hunt for New Chemical Reagents and Medicines"
NCBI to hold fourth offering of "A Librarian's Guide to NCBI"
September 16th NCBI Minute: Accessing the Human Genomics Standard Data (Genome in a Bottle) at NCBI
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Identifying Chemical Targets - Finding Potential Cross-Reactions and Predicting Side Effects"
RefSeq Release 72 is now available
HIV-1 interaction datasets in Gene updated
Genome Workbench 2.9.5 now available
dbSNP build 145 (pig, chicken, sorghum, gibbon) now available
NCBI News, August 2015
NCBI annotates 250th eukaryote with Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
September 2nd NCBI Minute: "Introducing SmartBLAST, a Rapid Protein Identification Tool"
GenBank release 209.0 is now available via FTP
Tree Viewer 1.6 now available
New NCBI video: "NCBI's 1000 Genomes Browser: Introduction"
August 26th webinar: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Determining and Annotating Coding Regions (CDS) for Eukaryotic Genes"
New NCBI Insights blog post: "SciENcv Updated to Support New NIH Biosketch Format"
Genomes FTP site update (version 1.2) expands taxonomic scope and more
CCDS release 19 for mouse added to Gene
NCBI News, July 2015
New NCBI Insights blog post: Introducing PubMed Labs, an NCBI initiative to include user community in product development from beginning
August 12th NCBI Minute: Using Variation Reporter to Map and Annotate Your Own Variant Calls
Sequence Viewer 3.9 adds data upload options to API, improved response time and more
August 5th NCBI Minute: "Using EDirect's Xtract Utility to Parse NCBI BLAST XML Output"
July 30th webinar: "Using SciENcv to Create Your NIH Biosketch"
July 22nd NCBI Minute webinar: Find disease-related variants in ClinVar
RefSeq Release 71 is now available!
July 15th webinar: "EDirect: Bringing the E-Utilities to the UNIX Command Line"
NCBI News, June 2015
Tree Viewer version 1.5 improves performance
June 3rd webinar "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Coding Region Annotation" video up on YouTube
June 10th webinar "Phylogenetic Trees in Genome Workbench" video up on YouTube
New dbVar webinar available on NCBI YouTube channel
GenBank release 208.0 is now available via FTP
NCBI Southern California Regional Workshops to be held June 30 - July 2
New YouTube video: "Sequence Viewer: Navigate Objects with Jump Arrows"
UniVec build 9.0 now available for VecScreen searches and FTP
BLAST+ stand-alone updated to version 2.2.31
Complete MERS coronavirus genomes from China and South Korea are in GenBank
dbSNP build 144 now available
NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.8 available
June 10th webinar: "Working with Phylogenetic Trees in Genome Workbench"
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.14 now available online and via FTP
The SRA Submission App on BaseSpace lets you submit directly to SRA
New NCBI YouTube video: "NCBI Minute: Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Update"
NCBI News, May 2015
New NCBI YouTube video: "Genome Workbench: Import BAMs and Export Alignments"
June 3rd webinar: "Troubleshooting GenBank Submissions: Coding Region Annotation"
NCBI to hold three-day genomics hackathon in August
New NCBI YouTube Video: NCBI's Tree Viewer
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI's First Hackathon: Advanced Bioinformatic Analysis of Next-Gen Sequencing Data"
May 26th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Update"
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NCBI RefSeq's Antimicrobial Peptide Indexed Field: Facilitating Novel Antibiotic Discovery"
Export data into Genome Workbench with Tree Viewer version 1.4
June 9th hands-on workshops at NLM will show users how to search NCBI's molecular databases
Genome Workbench 2.9.0 now available
New NCBI Insights blog post - Accessing the Hidden Kingdom: Fungal ITS Reference Sequences"
RefSeq release 70 is now available with re-annotated bacterial genomes for uniformity across genomes and species
May 13th webinar: "Introducing dbVar, the NCBI Database of Large-Scale Genetic Variation
NCBI News, April 2015
May 6th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Connecting with PubMed Commons"
New NCBI Insights blog post: "NIHMS Users: Do You Know How Often Your Paper is Being Accessed via PMC?"
April 29th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding Genomes and Annotations by Searching NCBI Assembly"
April 21st webinar: Rebroadcast of "NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central Submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv"
April 15th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Finding and Getting the Data You Want from NCBI in Less than Three Minutes - Introducing BioProject'
NIH issued statement on use of dbGaP in the Cloud
NCBI News, March 2015
Updated human and mouse genome annotations now available
April 8th webinar: "The NCBI Minute: Introducing MOLE-BLAST"
April 1st webinar: "A Practical Guide to Using NCBI BLAST on the Web"
dbSNP Build 143 Phase II now available
New NCBI Insights blog post: "Exploring Entrez Direct: Parsing the XML Output of E-utilities"
NCBI homepage update includes action buttons, category pages
NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.6 available
March 18th webinar: "Using the dbGaP Data Browser to browse aligned reads and genotypes from the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes"
NCBI News, February 2015
March 5th webinar: "NCBI and the NIH Public Access Policy: PubMed Central submissions, My NCBI, My Bibliography and SciENcv"
"A Submitter's Guide to GenBank" webinar parts 1 and 2 on YouTube
NCBI Insights blog: How to delegate authority to others to edit/create your profile and Collections
NCBI webinar on February 25: The Next Generation of Access to Sequencing Data: Using NCBI's SRA Toolkit to Access Data from dbGaP and SRA
NCBI Genomes FTP site update adds analysis sets and other data
GenBank release 206.0 is now available via FTP
Mouse, cow and zebrafish added to dbSNP build 142
1000 Genomes Browser updated to include Phase 3 May 2013 call set
NCBI News, January 2015
NIHMS's new look streamlines the manuscript submission process
Genome Workbench 2.8.10 available
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.13 now available online and via FTP
NCBI support for SOAP E-Utility ends July 1, 2015
GenBank surpasses one trillion total bases of publicly available sequence data
Nucleic Acids Research Database 2015 Issue illustrates NCBI databases, updates and future plans
NCBI YouTube channel: A million views and counting!
NCBI's next webinar is The Statistics of Local Pairwise Sequence Alignment, Parts 1 and 2
E-Utilities users: Keep up to date with changes via the Gene database RSS feed
RefSeq release 69 available on FTP
NCBI annotates 200th eukaryote
NCBI staff will attend International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXIII
NCBI News, December 2014
NCBI webinar A Submitter's Guide to GenBank, Part 2 on January 7th
GenBank release 205.0 is now available via FTP
Bald eagle and other bird genome sequence and annotation data publicly available at NCBI
Citation Exporter Feature Now Available in PubMed Central
New NCBI Insights blog post: Designing exon-specific primers for the human genome
NCBI News, November 2014
NCBI to hold two-day genomics hackathon in January
NCBI BioSample includes curated list of over 400 known misidentified and contaminated cell lines
NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline breaks record; over 100 organisms annotated this year
NCBI BankIt webinar on December 17th
NCBI E-Utilities webinar video now on YouTube
BLAST URL domain change in effect December 1
RefSeq release 68 available on FTP
dbVar releases 1000 Genomes Phase 3 structural variants
dbVar releases copy number variation (CNV) data from developmental delay study cited in Nature Reviews Genetics
NCBI News, October 2014
BLAST+ 2.2.30 released
New Genome BLAST selector on the BLAST homepage
Next NCBI webinar on November 5th
GenBank release 204.0 is now available via FTP
dbSNP human Build 142 released
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace provides the easiest way to start an NCBI BLAST instance
Variation Reporter version 1.4 released
Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.12
Updates to assembly alignments for NCBI Remap service
New NCBI Insights blog: Sequence updates in human assembly GRCh38: improving gene annotation
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) GRCz10 now annotated
dbVar now accepts VCF submissions of structural variation data
New NCBI Insights blog post: NCBI's medical genetics resources
NCBI webinar on E-Utilities October 15th
NCBI News, September 2014
NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.4 available
HIV-1, human interaction database updated
Virus Variation Resource pages for Ebolavirus, MERS coronoavirus give quick and easy access to related sequences and other data
Simplified FASTA headers included on new NCBI Genomes FTP site
RefSeq release 67 available on FTP
Identical Protein Report Display option added to Protein database
NCBI News, August 2014
Milestone: NCBI annotates 150th eukaryotic genome
The new NCBI Genomes FTP site is here!
New NCBI YouTube video: Downloading FASTA sequences in Sequence Viewer
Rat annotation release 105 now on Gene, FTP, sequence and BLAST databases
New NCBI Insights blog: How to comply with NIH Public Access Policy
"BLAST in the Cloud!" is the newest video on the NCBI Webinars YouTube playlist
GenBank release 203.0 is now available via FTP
Genome Workbench 2.8.0 released
"NCBI's OSIRIS: Quality Assurance for DNA Forensic Profiling" webinar on September 17th
UniVec build 8.0 now available for VecScreen searches and FTP
NCBI News, July 2014
General Research Use collection streamlines access to patient-level data in dbGaP
NCBI/CDC/FDA/USDA collaboration using whole genome sequencing (WGS) to improve food safety is honored with an HHSinnovates award
Major revision of the NCBI genomes FTP site this summer
NCBI webinar "Using the New NCBI Variation Viewer to Explore Human Genetic Variation" on August 13th
RefSeq release 66 available on FTP site
NCBI's latest YouTube video presents special features in SciENcv
"BLAST in the Cloud!" webinar on July 30th showcases NCBI-BLAST Amazon Machine Image
NCBI News, June 2014
BLAST machine image (AMI) hosted at Amazon Web Services
Green monkey annotation release 100 now available
NCBI's latest YouTube video explores Variation Viewer
GenBank release 202.0 is now available via FTP
RefSeq model sequences can now be constructed from genomic and transcript sequences
Genome Workbench 2.7.19 released
dbSNP human Build 141 now available
New features simplify access to annotation information in NCBI's Gene
NCBI News, May 2014
BLAST URL domain changes to take effect December 1, 2014
GTR/ClinVar/MedGen webinar on June 18 will explore NCBI resources
RefSeq release 65 available on FTP site
The NIH Genetic Testing Registry now has information on more than 3,500 cancer tests
SciENcv 2.0 brings major improvements to My NCBI
NCBI Sequence Viewer version 3.2 available
NCBI News, April 2014
Coffee Break tutorial: The promise of PCSK9
New NCBI Insights Blog: Sequence updates in human genome assembly GRCh38
HomoloGene release 68 now available
Milestone: NCBI's Taxonomy database contains over 300,000 species with formal scientific names!
GenBank release 201.0 is now available via FTP
Enterococci: From commensals to leading causes of drug resistant infection on Bookshelf
CCDS release 16 for mouse now public in Gene
New on the Bookshelf: The Art and Politics of Science, a memoir by Dr. Harold Varmus
Coffee Break tutorial: Brown fat and obesity
NCBI News, March 2014
New NCBI YouTube video: Create custom databases for BLAST
Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on May 6th & 7th!
NCBI will attend the 2014 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
NCBI requests feedback on proposed BLAST XML specification update
RefSeq full release 64 out
Orthologous genes and gene regions now accessible through Gene
New dbGaP online system for registering studies and applying for data access introduces time-saving features
New Sorting and Output Options for E-utilities
NCBI News, February 2014
Genome Workbench Update 2.7.15 released
New CDD Release v.3.11 includes recomputed PSSMs and more
GenBank has milestone 200th release
Human genome annotation release 106 now available
NCBI releases Entrez Direct, the Entrez utilities on the UNIX command line
Sequence Viewer updated to version 3.1
NCBI News, January 2014
Human CCDS release 15 now available on web and FTP
RefSeq release 63 now available
Taxonomy database now shows type material, sequences from type specimens and strains now labeled in Entrez
New NCBI Insights blog: NCBI Remap tool helps you transition to newest human reference genome assembly, GRCh38
Sequence Viewer PDF rendering available - YouTube video tutorial
Genome Workbench Update 2.7.12
VAST+ released: Find similar 3D structures for macromolecular complexes
NCBI Insights blog: A Librarian's Guide to NCBI - an intensive training course for medical librarians to be offered April 2014
Mouse genome annotation release 104 available
BLAST+ 2.2.29 now available
NCBI News, December 2013
New human genome assembly (GRCh38) released!
Annotation reports now generated for recently annotated organisms
Meet PubMed Commons: The new comments forum in PubMed
Rat genome annotation release 104
New NCBI Handbook chapters: Eukaryotic and prokaryotic genome annotation pipelines
Sequence Viewer has been updated
GenBank release 199 now available
NCBI Video: Submitting manuscripts on NIHMS
PMCID - PMID - Manuscript ID - DOI Converter Upgraded
NCBI News, November 2013
NCBI Insights blog post: Creating custom BLAST databases
SRA milestone: Over 2 petabases of sequence data
Planned change in bacterial strain-level information management
Exploring next-gen sequencing experiments with SRA-BLAST
NCBI Insights blog post: Saved Searches and E-mail Alerts
RefSeq release 62 now available
NCBI's Eukaryotic Annotation Pipeline has now annotated the genomes for 100 different organisms!
NCBI's 25th Anniversary and The Jim Gray eScience Award
New SNP data available for several organisms!
Update on PubMed Commons' comments in the early pilot phase
NCBI News, October 2013
Human CCDS release 14 is now available in the Gene database
New NCBI Insights Blog Post: Joining PubMed Commons - A step-by-step guide
GenBank Release 198.0 is Available
PubMed Commons is now live!
NCBI Staff will be attending the ASHG 2013 Meeting
Organism BLAST pages now use top-level RefSeq genomic records instead of scaffold records
NCBI News, September 2013
Try the new My NCBI Feature: SciENcv
Comments Requested: NIH genomic data sharing policy
RefSeq release 61 now available
A new NCBI Insights post about the use of NCBI Data for scientific discovery
New PubChem social media sites help keep users up-to-date!
NCBI News, August 2013
Human genome annotation release 105 with new splice variants
dbSNP Build 138, phase III, now available
Sequence Viewer 2.27: new features, improvements, and help documentation
>10,000 tests now listed in the NIH Genetic Testing Registry
GenBank Release 197.0 is Available
NCBI News, July 2013
Tenth Anniversary of RefSeq FTP Releases
RefSeq Release 60 is Available for FTP
New NCBI Insights Post: "New Pandoravirus Sequences are Accessible in GenBank"
Genome Workbench 7.6 with Publication Quality Graphics Export
NCBI News, June 2013
Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on July 30 & 31!
Upload and graphically compare your own data with NCBI Epigenomics tracks
SRA-BLAST has been updated with new features and performance enhancements
Welcome to the NCBI News site!
Dr. David Lipman Receives White House "Open Science" Champions of Change Award on Behalf of NCBI
GenBank Release 196.0 is Available
New RefSeq Bacterial Protein Products and Emerging RefSeq Data Model
NCBI News, May 2013
Need to Find Information about Genetic Tests? Try GTR!
RefSeq Release 59 is Available for FTP
New YouTube Video: Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy with My Bibliography
NCBI News, April 2013
New publication: "BLAST: a more efficient report with usability improvements."
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Phase One Rollout of the New Genome Site
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Entrez Utility Changes: New EFetch Version and New alternative ESummary XML
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Eukaryotic Genome Builds and Updates
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Conserved Domain Database Update
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Feature Highlight Now Available in Sequence Databases
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Conserved Domain Database updated (v2.31)
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NCBI will no longer archive new sequencing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)
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NCBI at the ICHG/ASHG Meeting in Montreal: Workshop on Medical Genetics
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Updated BLAST Genome Search Pages
NLM Contest: Show off your Apps! Invitation to Submit Applications that Work with NLM Biomedical Data
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The Sequence Read and Trace Archive Databases to Continue
BLAST 2.2.25+ Release and New Set-up Instructions
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Mouse Genome Annotation Release (build 37.2) and Updated Mouse Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) Data
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Genome Workbench Version 2.2.2 Release
NCBI Responds to a Report of Contamination in the Sequence Databases
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