In February and March, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released forty-six new annotations in RefSeq!
We have made some exciting updates to the NIH Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) to give you a more modern, easier-to-navigate display of genetic test information. We encourage you to check out our latest improvements and let us know what you think.
Do you use NCBI’s MedGen? If so, then you probably know it’s NCBI’s one-stop-shop for genetic phenotype information. If you are a healthcare provider, genetic professional, researcher, or anyone who uses MedGen, we want to hear from you to help us make this resource better meet your needs!
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Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data available via the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are migrating from multi-region to single region us-east-1. This migration is projected to be complete by May 2024. To minimize the impact of this change, we recommend updating your workflow to access SRA data in us-east-1 region as soon as conveniently possible.
Please note this change does not impact SRA data access from Amazon Web Services (AWS) or NCBI servers. Continue reading “Changes to SRA Data Access on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)”
Since announcing the launch of a more modern PubMed Central (PMC) website in March 2022, NLM’s NCBI continues to make improvements based on your feedback. We invite you to preview the latest improvements planned for the PMC website. These improvements will become the default in October 2024 and include an updated article display, enhanced PMC journal list, and other features to help you access information quickly and easily. Click on the “Try it out now” link in the banner on the top of any ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc page to preview and experience these improvements for yourself. Continue reading “Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central (PMC)”
Calling all high school, community college, and undergraduate science educators! NCBI is excited to host our first BioEd Summit on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD, from August 5-9, 2024. Join us for a week-long, in-person event where you will collaborate with other educators and NCBI experts to create data-driven curricula. You’ll leave the event with an exciting, novel lesson you can use in your classroom to prepare your students for real-world scientific research.
Continue reading “Announcing NCBI’s First Ever BioEd Summit!”
Check out RefSeq release 223, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets.
As of March 4, 2024, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing:
Do you submit genome assembly data to GenBank? If so, try out NCBI’s Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool, a quality assurance process that you can run yourself. We will screen all prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome submissions to GenBank with this tool, but we encourage you to screen your data before submitting to save time. FCS offers sensitive contaminant detection to increase the quality of your genome submissions to GenBank. As part of our ongoing effort to improve your experience, we recently made several enhancements. Continue reading “Foreign Contamination Screen Tool: Now Available in Galaxy!”
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) are reshaping data science and scientific discovery. Recognizing the important role of collaboration and knowledge sharing in this space, NCBI hosted the “Building transparent ML/AI solutions to advance biological research codeathon” from February 26 to March 1, 2024. This virtual event brought together biologists, developers, and data scientists passionate about using responsible AI in biological research. Continue reading “Celebrating the Building Transparent ML/AI Solutions for Biological Research Codeathon”
NCBI’s ClinVar is now accepting submissions for somatic variants classified for cancer. As recently announced, we updated the ClinVar website as part of our effort to better support the display of submitted somatic variation data.
Access to somatic variation data is essential for understanding tumor biology and will help researchers advance cancer treatment. It also helps clinical cancer testing laboratories provide better patient reports. Make ClinVar as useful for somatic variants as it is for germline by contributing your data! To submit your data, use our new somatic spreadsheet template (SubmissionTemplateSomatic.xlsx) and follow these step-by-step instructions. Once your submission is prepared, you can go to the ClinVar Submission Portal to upload and send your file. See an example below. Continue reading “Submit Your Somatic Variation Data to ClinVar”