Try out ElasticBLAST at the BOSC2021 CoFest!

Join the BLAST team at the virtual CollaborationFest (July 31 -August 1, 2021) after the BOSC 2021 conference to help test and improve ElasticBLAST, a new cloud-based tool designed to speed up high throughput BLAST searches. We would love to have your help with real world testing of our alpha release of ElasticBLAST with you … Continue reading Try out ElasticBLAST at the BOSC2021 CoFest!

Updates on SARS-CoV-2 resources and cloud data services at ASV 2021

NCBI staff will be presenting  talks and a poster on accessing SARS-CoV-2 at NCBI and in the Cloud at the American Society of Virology 2021 virtual conference, July 19-23, 2021. Presentations July 19, 2021, 6:00PM to 9:30PM, Epidemiology and Public Health Eneida Hatcher, Ph.D.,  will present ‘Providing an easy-to-use, graphics driven interface for normalized public SARS-CoV-2 … Continue reading Updates on SARS-CoV-2 resources and cloud data services at ASV 2021

NCBI to present on SRA and cloud computing at the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference

We’re bringing exciting developments to our user community at the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC 2021), which is virtual this year!                     We start with hosting NCBI’s first ever GCC training week tutorial co-written by Jon Trow, Ph.D. – Sequence Read Archive (SRA): Subject Matter Expert … Continue reading NCBI to present on SRA and cloud computing at the 2021 Galaxy Community Conference

The wait is over… NIH’s Public Sequence Read Archive is now open access on the cloud

The NIH NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) on AWS, containing all public SRA data, is now live! This data is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) under the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) with support from NIH’s Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) initiative. The SRA is NIH’s primary repository for raw, … Continue reading The wait is over… NIH’s Public Sequence Read Archive is now open access on the cloud

NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are happy to announce that the controlled- and public-access Sequence Read Archive (SRA)–one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data–will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) as of … Continue reading NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are happy to announce that the controlled- and public-access Sequence Read Archive (SRA)–one of the world’s largest repositories of raw next generation sequencing data–will be freely accessible from Amazon S3 via the Open Data Sponsorship Program (ODP) as of … Continue reading NIH’s Sequence Read Archive to be made available on AWS’s Open Data Sponsorship Program

December 9 Webinar: Using BLAST+ in Docker and on the cloud

Join us on December 9, 2020 to learn about containerized BLAST+ in Docker that is ready to use locally and in the cloud. We are staging BLAST databases in some cloud providers making running containerized BLAST as part of a pipeline in the cloud even easier. In this webinar you will learn about the advantages … Continue reading December 9 Webinar: Using BLAST+ in Docker and on the cloud

December 2 Webinar: Using the new Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) to assemble and annotate microbial genomes

Join us December 2 to learn how to use the Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT). With RAPT, you can assemble and annotate a microbial genome right out of the sequencing machine! Provide the short genomic reads or an SRA run on input, and get back the sequence annotated with coding and protein coding … Continue reading December 2 Webinar: Using the new Read assembly and Annotation Pipeline Tool (RAPT) to assemble and annotate microbial genomes

We want to hear from you about changes to NIH’s Sequence Read Archive data format and storage

NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) is the largest, most diverse collection of next generation sequencing data from human, non-human and microbial sources. Hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), SRA data … Continue reading

May 20 webinar: Exploring SRA metadata in the cloud with BigQuery

Join us on May 20th to learn how to use Google’s BigQuery to quickly search the data from the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) in the cloud to speed up your bioinformatic research and discovery projects. BigQuery is a tool for … Continue reading