Using NCBI Data and Tools for Your Research Project

Are you a biology student working on a research project? NCBI offers free access to a wide variety of resources and tools to help you find and download data for your project.   How and why do you use our resources? Check out the example below: Your professor has assigned you a research project looking at … Continue reading Using NCBI Data and Tools for Your Research Project

A Successful Codeathon! Collaborating to Expand Expertise in African Life Scientists

Exciting update! We recently collaborated with the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB) for their spring OMICS Codeathon, and it was a great success. ASBCB is a professional association dedicated to the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology in Africa. Codeathons are events focused on technology and software development, where participants work collaboratively … Continue reading A Successful Codeathon! Collaborating to Expand Expertise in African Life Scientists

Navigating Between BLAST and iCn3D

Explore protein structures and sequences quickly and easily  Have you ever come across an unfamiliar protein in your BLAST results? With the newly added ‘AlphaFold Structure’ link (Figure 1), you can now explore its structure as predicted by AlphaFold in iCn3D. The iCn3D Structure Viewer is not only a web-based 3D viewer, but also a … Continue reading Navigating Between BLAST and iCn3D

New Upcoming NCBI Virtual Workshops!

Apply to attend October 2022 interactive, hands-on workshops Want to learn more about NCBI resources and how to implement our cutting-edge tools in your research? NCBI offers a variety of educational opportunities, including workshops, webinars, codeathons, tutorials, and more! We are excited to announce our upcoming virtual workshop series for October 2022. Our interactive, hands-on … Continue reading New Upcoming NCBI Virtual Workshops!

Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022

Come visit NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), part of the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB), July 13-16, taking place both in person in Madison, Wisconsin and virtually! We’ll be presenting talks and posters on the latest updates to the NCBI Datasets, BLAST, and Protein resources. You can also join us at … Continue reading Save the Date: NCBI at the Bioinformatics Open Science Conference (BOSC), July 2022

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Structure viewer iCn3D version 3 featuring analysis of 3D structures!

The NCBI structure viewer iCn3D version 3 is now available on the NCBI web site and from GitHub. Analysis of 3D Structures You can use the current version with the icn3d package at npm to write scripts to call functions in iCn3D. For example, this script on GitHub can calculate the change in interactions due to … Continue reading Structure viewer iCn3D version 3 featuring analysis of 3D structures!

Structure viewer iCn3D 2.20.0 is available with new features including viewing an electrostatic potential map!

The NCBI structure viewer iCn3D 2.20.0 is now available on the NCBI web site and from GitHub. You can now view the electrostatic potential map for any subset of 3D structures within 30,000 atoms. The potential is calculated using the DelPhi program by solving a linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. You can show the potential on a … Continue reading Structure viewer iCn3D 2.20.0 is available with new features including viewing an electrostatic potential map!

Structure viewer iCn3D 2.15.0 with new rendering, annotation, and alignment features

 iCn3D 2.15.0 is now available on NCBI web site and as a release on GitHub. To use the updated web application, retrieve any structure from the Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB), open the structure summary page, and click the button for … Continue reading

Publication on NCBI’s web-based structure viewer iCn3D

A recent article by Wang J., et al. describes the features and applications of iCn3D, NCBI’s web-based 3D viewer (Figure 1), and shows how you can use it for interactive structural analysis. Wang J, Youkharibache P, Zhang D, Lanczycki CJ, Geer RC, … Continue reading