Category Archives: NCBI research
NCBI staff to present 3 posters at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT), February 2020
Next week, NCBI staff will attend AGBT in Marco Island, Florida. On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, three posters from NCBI staff will be on display from 4:40 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. during the Poster Session and Wine Reception in the … Continue reading
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inNCBI staff to present 3 posters at Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT), February 2020
Next week, NCBI staff will attend AGBT in Marco Island, Florida. On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, three posters from NCBI staff will be on display from 4:40 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. during the Poster Session and Wine Reception in the … Continue reading
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inGenome in a Bottle Structural Variants released in dbVar
The latest dbVar data release includes the Genome in a Bottle benchmark structural variant (SV) callset (pre-print Zook et al. 2019) – a highly scrutinized, carefully curated set of 12,745 sequence-resolved deletions, insertions, and delins variants from Personal Genome Project … Continue reading
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inNCBI to correct existing taxonomic information on public GenBank records with average nucleotide identity analysis
To ensure that taxonomic information on genome assemblies is as accurate as possible, NCBI will use average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis to correct existing public records in GenBank. We will contact submitters of records found to be misidentified and provide … Continue reading
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inExplore and analyze mutagenic factors leading to tumors with MutaGene, a novel resource
MutaGene is a new, freely available resource for understanding the mutagenic factors contributing to tumor development. Cancer arises from multiple changes in the DNA that can be caused by various extrinsic factors, such as sunlight and tobacco smoking, and intrinsic … Continue reading
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