Category Archives: Bioinformatics
November 15 NCBI Minute: Advanced Use of NCBI APIs for High-Throughput Analysis of Genomic Data and Metadata
On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at 12:00 PM EST, NCBI will present a webinar on advanced applications of the NCBI APIs we previously introduced in our general API webinar in September. This webinar is intended for bioinformaticians, computational biologists and … Continue reading
Posted by in APIs, Bioinformatics, downloading data, metadata, NCBI Minute, What's New
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 
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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 
Posted by in Bioinformatics, hackathon, Quick Tips, RunSelector, SRA, youtube
August 30 NCBI Minute: NCBI Hackathons, a framework for rapid prototyping of pipelines for bioinformatics, biomedical informatics and genomics
NCBI regularly organizes hackathons throughout the United States, where participants work in teams to apply their data science experience with public datasets. In this NCBI Minute, you will hear highlights from recent hackathons, see examples of the software created in … Continue reading 
Posted by in Bioinformatics, biomedical data, Genomics, hackathon, NCBI Minute, webinars, What's New, youtube
Pittsburgh Genomics Hackathon assisted by NCBI September 25 – 27, 2017
From September 25-27,2017, NCBI will help with a bioinformatics hackathon at the University of Pittsburgh. The hackathon will focus on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data, proteomics and metadata. This event is for researchers, including students and postdocs, … Continue reading 
Posted by in Bioinformatics, Genomics, hackathon, metadata, Next-gen sequencing, NGS, proteomics, What's New
Applications open for the August 2017 NCBI-NLM Bioinformatics Hackathon
From August 14th – 16th, the NCBI, with involvement from several NIH institutes, will host a Biomedical Data Science hackathon at the National Library of Medicine on the NIH campus. The hackathon will primarily focus on medical informatics, advanced bioinformatics … Continue reading 
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dbGaP 10th Anniversary Symposium June 9, 2017
dbGaP (the NIH database of Genotypes and Phenotypes) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year! We are proud to support over 850 studies and 1.6 million samples. We invite you to join us at the dbGaP 10th Anniversary Symposium to … Continue reading 
Posted by in Alzheimer's disease, Bioinformatics, Breast cancer, collaborative research, dbgap, GWAS, NIAGADS, NIH, PhenX, SRA, What's New
NCBI to assist with NYGC Genomics Hackathon June 19-21
From June 19-21, 2017, the NCBI will assist in a bioinformatics hackathon at the New York Genome Center (NYGC). This hackathon will focus on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, proteomics and metadata. To apply for this hackathon, … Continue reading 
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May 10th NCBI Minute: How to Locate and Use Human Genomes and Annotations from NCBI
Next week, NCBI staff will show you how to quickly find and download human genome annotations from both the web and the command line for incorporation into your workflows. We will also show you how to convert the accessions in … Continue reading 
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Slice of PLOS: The Awesomeness of Bats
Just how awesome are bats? It’s easy to forget that one in five species of mammal on this planet have wings capable of delivering spectacularly acrobatic flying abilities. Equally incredibly, two-thirds of these 1,200 species