Changes to SRA Data Access on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data available via the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are migrating from multi-region to single region us-east-1. This migration is projected to be complete by May 2024. To minimize the impact of this change, we recommend updating your workflow to access SRA data in us-east-1 region as soon as conveniently possible.  Please note … Continue reading Changes to SRA Data Access on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Changes to SRA Data Access on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data available via the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are migrating from multi-region to single region us-east-1. This migration is projected to be complete by May 2024. To minimize the impact of this change, we recommend updating your workflow to access SRA data in us-east-1 region as soon as conveniently possible.  Please note … Continue reading Changes to SRA Data Access on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central (PMC)

Updated article display and journal list Since announcing the launch of a more modern PubMed Central (PMC) website in March 2022, NLM’s NCBI continues to make improvements based on your feedback. We invite you to preview the latest improvements planned for the PMC website. These improvements will become the default in October 2024 and include … Continue reading Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central (PMC)

Announcing NCBI’s First Ever BioEd Summit!

An in-person training opportunity for science educators  Calling all high school, community college, and undergraduate science educators! NCBI is excited to host our first BioEd Summit on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD, from August 5-9, 2024. Join us for a week-long, in-person event where you will collaborate with other educators … Continue reading Announcing NCBI’s First Ever BioEd Summit!

Now Available: RefSeq Release 223

Check out RefSeq release 223, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. What’s included in this release? As of March 4, 2024, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing: 425,594,654 records 316,329,937 proteins 60,886,133 RNAs sequences from 147,591 organisms  The release is provided in several directories as … Continue reading Now Available: RefSeq Release 223

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

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

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