Category Archives: What’s New
Foreign Contamination Screen Tool: Now Available in Galaxy!
Check out our latest enhancements Do you submit genome assembly data to GenBank? If so, try out NCBI’s Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool, a quality assurance process that you can run yourself. We will screen all prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome submissions to GenBank with this tool, but we encourage you to screen your data before … Continue reading Foreign Contamination Screen Tool: Now Available in Galaxy!
Celebrating the Building Transparent ML/AI Solutions for Biological Research Codeathon
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) are reshaping data science and scientific discovery. Recognizing the important role of collaboration and knowledge sharing in this space, NCBI hosted the “Building transparent ML/AI solutions to advance biological research codeathon” from February 26 to March 1, 2024. This virtual event brought together biologists, developers, and data scientists passionate … Continue reading Celebrating the Building Transparent ML/AI Solutions for Biological Research Codeathon
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Submit Your Somatic Variation Data to ClinVar
NCBI’s ClinVar is now accepting submissions for somatic variants classified for cancer. As recently announced, we updated the ClinVar website as part of our effort to better support the display of submitted somatic variation data. Access to somatic variation data is essential for understanding tumor biology and will help researchers advance cancer treatment. It also … Continue reading Submit Your Somatic Variation Data to ClinVar
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Join NCBI at TAGC 2024
March 6-10 in Washington, D.C. We look forward to seeing you in person at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), March 6-10, 2024, in the Washington D.C. metro area. NCBI staff will participate in a variety of activities and events, including hosting a hands-on workshop: Exploring and downloading NCBI data with NCBI Datasets. We’re also excited … Continue reading Join NCBI at TAGC 2024
Significant Updates Coming to the NCBI Datasets APIs and Command-Line Tools
As part of our ongoing effort to enhance your experience, we are updating the NCBI Datasets application programming interfaces (APIs). Beginning in June 2024, the v2alpha APIs will be promoted to the stable v2 version. At this time, the v1 API, the command-line interface (CLI) version 13 and older versions, and the Python library v1 … Continue reading Significant Updates Coming to the NCBI Datasets APIs and Command-Line Tools
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NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week
Providing free and open access to scientific literature and data Do you love biological data? Join NCBI in celebrating International Love Data Week, February 12-16, 2024! Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, which takes place every year during the week of Valentine’s Day. This year’s theme is “My Kind of Data,” focusing on … Continue reading NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week
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New RefSeq Annotations Now Available!
During October to January, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released seventy new annotations in RefSeq! New Annotations Alnus glutinosa (eudicot) Amyelois transitella (moth) Anolis sagrei ordinatus (Brown anole) Apis cerana (Asiatic honeybee) Balaenoptera ricei (Rice’s whale) Bombus pascuorum (bee) Bos javanicus (banteng) Bos taurus (cattle) Cannabis sativa (eudicot) Colius striatus (speckled mousebird) Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) … Continue reading New RefSeq Annotations Now Available!
Enhancements to ClinVar Website Now Live
As previously announced, we updated the ClinVar website as part of our effort to better support the display of submitted somatic variation data. What changed? Updated ClinVar search results Germline / Somatic origin filter Somatic Classification and Review Status summary Updated Variant (VCV) record page Includes both Germline and Somatic data for the same variant … Continue reading Enhancements to ClinVar Website Now Live
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HomoloGene Now Redirects to NCBI Datasets Gene
A new way to view and download related genes As previously announced, HomoloGene now automatically redirects to the NCBI Datasets Gene page giving you easy access to up-to-date sequence and homology data. The NCBI Datasets Gene Table provides a link to NCBI Orthologs with expanded gene and protein information and links to tools. NCBI Orthologs … Continue reading HomoloGene Now Redirects to NCBI Datasets Gene
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BLAST FASTA Files Will No Longer Be Available on the FTP Site Effective April 2024
Easily generate BLAST FASTA files yourself! In April 2024, the FASTA (sequence text) files of the sequences in the Basic Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) databases will no longer be available on the FTP site. However, you can easily generate FASTA files yourself from the formatted BLAST databases by using the BLAST utility blastdbcmd that comes … Continue reading BLAST FASTA Files Will No Longer Be Available on the FTP Site Effective April 2024
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