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

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

Now Available! Compare NCBI RefSeq and UniProt Datasets

Do you need to compare and combine data based on NCBI RefSeq and UniProt datasets, and aren’t sure which proteins are comparable? For many years, NCBI Gene has provided information about the relationships between RefSeq and UniProt accessions courtesy of data imported from UniProt, but the tremendous growth of both datasets has led to large … Continue reading Now Available! Compare NCBI RefSeq and UniProt Datasets

New Way to View and Download Related Genes

Effective June 2023, the HomoloGene records will redirect to the Datasets Gene Table Do you use HomoloGene to view and download data? You can now access updated homology data from NCBI Datasets through the Datasets Gene Table with connections to NCBI Orthologs. Go directly from a HomoloGene record to the Datasets Gene Table that will … Continue reading New Way to View and Download Related Genes

Connect with NCBI at ASHG 2022

Join us October 25-29 in Los Angeles, CA We are looking forward to seeing you in-person at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, October 25-29, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. We will present a variety of talks and posters featuring our clinical and human genetic resources, as well as genome products and … Continue reading Connect with NCBI at ASHG 2022

New Gene Information from the Alliance of Genome Resources

NCBI Gene now has descriptive information about genes from the Alliance of Genome Resources for organisms including Caenorhabditis elegans, Danio rerio, Drosophila melanogaster, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Figure 1. The gene summary section of the Drosophila melanogaster slmb Gene Full Report showing the link to the corresponding record at the … Continue reading New Gene Information from the Alliance of Genome Resources

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Try out the new gene table from NCBI Datasets!

Announcing a new feature in NCBI Datasets: the gene table. To access it, start from the human species page (Figure 1) and click View all genes to view a table of all human genes. Figure 1: Human species page. Click “View all genes” to view a table of human genes.  You can filter the table results by … Continue reading Try out the new gene table from NCBI Datasets!

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New NCBI Gene Ensembl Comparison Expansion

NCBI Gene has added Ensembl Rapid Releases to the calculation of matching annotations between NCBI RefSeq and Ensembl. This has resulted in the inclusion of over 60 additional assemblies for a total of 241 organisms represented in the set. Matches are made based on transcript and CDS comparisons, and Ensembl gene, transcript, and protein identifiers for annotations … Continue reading New NCBI Gene Ensembl Comparison Expansion

New NCBI Datasets home and documentation pages provide easier access

NCBI Datasets, the new set of services for downloading genome assembly and annotation data (previous Datasets posts), has redesigned and reorganized web pages to make it easier to find and access the services and documentation you need. NCBI Datasets has a fresh new homepage (Figure 1) highlighting the types of data available through our tools. Available … Continue reading New NCBI Datasets home and documentation pages provide easier access

The Datasets command-line tool now provides ortholog data

You can now get gene ortholog data using the NCBI Datasets command-line tool using a gene ID, gene symbol, or RefSeq nucleotide or protein accession. Data are available for vertebrates and insects. The vertebrate orthologs includes a specialized set for fish.  (See our recent post for more information on the orthologs for fish and insects.) You … Continue reading The Datasets command-line tool now provides ortholog data