Category Archives: Submissions
Dengue virus submission improvements now live!
When there is an outbreak of dengue fever in the world, it’s critical that viral genomic sequence data be submitted by researchers and made available to analyze as soon as possible. You can now submit Dengue virus sequences to GenBank … Continue reading
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Mitochondrial COX1 submission improvements now live in submission portal!
GenBank submitters, you can now submit mitochondrial COX1 (cytochrome oxidase subunit I; COI) sequence data from multicellular animals (metazoa) using a new workflow (Figure 1) with an improved interface, enhanced validation, and automatic COX1 CDS feature annotation. Once you have … Continue reading
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Feature propagation in BankIt: easily annotate many sequences at once for GenBank submission
Do you need a quick way to annotate features on a similar set of sequences for your GenBank submission? You can now submit sequences from the same region or gene in an alignment format in BankIt and use the new … Continue reading
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GenBank submitters, is your genome assembly within the expected size range?
Validation issues can delay the processing of your submissions to GenBank. To avoid one type of delay, use the new “expected genome size” API to check the length of your genome assembly before submission. The API compares the size of submitted genome … Continue reading
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New release of the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline now available
We have released a new version of the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP), available on GitHub. The new release includes the ability to ignore pre-annotation validation errors (–ignore-all-errors). This new feature allows you to produce a preliminary annotation for a … Continue reading
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Genome Workbench 3.0, now with support for preparing GenBank genome submissions
Genome Workbench version 3.0 (release notes) is now available. An important new feature is the submission preparation wizard that allows you to prepare prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome sequences for submission to GenBank. This wizard is the first step toward offering a … Continue reading
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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
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Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) now produces results suitable for submission to GenBank
We are happy to announce that you can now submit your genome sequences annotated by your own local copy of the standalone Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) to GenBank. How does it work? Download PGAP from GitHub, provide some basic … Continue reading
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Proposed changes to AGP files for genome assemblies
If you are a consumer or producer of AGP (A Golden Path) files for genome assemblies, please read on. We’d like your feedback on the proposed changes described here. As you know, AGP files are used to describe the structure … Continue reading
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New Norovirus GenBank Submission Service
Do you have Norovirus sequence data to submit to GenBank? Try out the newly-released improvements in our submission service for Norovirus data! The new service offers the following advantages: Faster processing and shorter time to accession numbers Improved user interface … Continue reading
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