Users of the SRA FTP site: Try the SRA Toolkit!

If you download data from the SRA (Sequence Read Archive) FTP site, we would encourage you to try the SRA Toolkit. This is particularly true if you use the SRA Fuse/FTP site at ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sra-instant, which the SRA team will decommission … Continue reading

Structural Variant Hackathon

NCBI is pleased to announce a Structural Variant Hackathon at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, immediately before ASHG on October 11-13, 2019. We’re specifically looking for folks who have experience in working with structural variants, complex disease, precision medicine, … Continue reading

Try our new SRA data management tools!

Have you ever needed to correct or improve SRA metadata after submitting, change the release date for your data or share your data with reviewers? Now you can perform these tasks yourself using the SRA data management features now LIVE … Continue reading

NCBI to assist in Southern California genomics hackathon in January

From January 10-12, 2018, the NCBI will help with a bioinformatics hackathon in Southern California hosted by San Diego State University. The hackathon will focus on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data, proteomics, and metadata. This event is … Continue reading

IgBLAST 1.8.0 release

A new version of IgBLAST is now available on FTP, along with a new manual on GitHub. This release has the following improvements: The igblastn executable can now multi-thread much more efficiently for large sets of queries. The default number … Continue reading

November 1 webinar: Introducing the Genome Data Viewer (GDV)

On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, we will present a webinar on GDV, NCBI’s full-featured genome browser. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to explore and analyze sequences and annotations for eukaryotic RefSeq genome assemblies. We’ll show you how to: Search … Continue reading

Magic-BLAST 1.3.0 released with new features and improvements

The newest version of Magic-BLAST (v. 1.3.0) offers improved sensitivity and faster run-times as well as a number of other new features and improvements. These include the ability to set the alignment cut-off score as a function of read length, … Continue reading

Two new videos on YouTube: SRA RunSelector & NCBI Hackathons

We’ve uploaded recordings from two recent NCBI Minute webinars on the NCBI YouTube channel. The first, “Using the SRA RunSelector to Find NGS Datasets”, shows you how to filter the SRA database using metadata details from submitted datasets.   The … Continue reading

Two new videos on YouTube: SRA RunSelector & NCBI Hackathons

We’ve uploaded recordings from two recent NCBI Minute webinars on the NCBI YouTube channel. The first, “Using the SRA RunSelector to Find NGS Datasets”, shows you how to filter the SRA database using metadata details from submitted datasets.   The … Continue reading

August 23 NCBI Minute: Using the Run Selector to Find Relevant Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Datasets

Do you have trouble searching the NCBI webpage for relevant datasets? Wish you could filter the search results more precisely? You can with SRA Run Selector. In this NCBI Minute, you’ll learn how to filter the SRA database using the … Continue reading