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5 new videos on YouTube: Get the most out of BLAST, MedGen, PubChem and more

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NCBI Minute: Getting the Most out of Web BLAST Tabular Format

The NCBI web BLAST service has several useful download formats, including tabular formats. All formats allow you to easily save your BLAST results for processing, editing, and annotating.

This video will show you how to use basic Unix tools and EDirect to expand and enhance your tabular saved BLAST results. You will also see learn how to add useful information like taxonomy and sequence titles.

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June 20 NCBI Minute: Getting the Genomic Context for BLAST Protein Matches

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Do you ever want to see the flanking genes of a protein match from a BLAST search?  On June 20th, we’ll show you how to see the genomic context of bacterial proteins using the identical protein report and the graphical sequence viewer. You will also learn to use these reports in detail and how to get these genomic contexts in batch for a set of protein matches using the identical proteins report and EDirect .

Date and time: Wed, June 20, 2018 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EDT

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. A few days after the live presentation, you can view the recording on the NCBI YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.

Tour the NCBI’s Genome Data Viewer, Bookshelf, Pathogen Isolates Detection Browser and other resources on YouTube

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Several of the latest videos on the NCBI YouTube channel highlight NCBI resources. Subscribe to the channel to see all our new videos.

NCBI’s Genome Data Viewer – Introducing the BLAST Widget

A brief introduction into how the BLAST widget, a new addition to the Genome Data Viewer, helps you see your BLAST results in the context of assembled genome sequences.

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May 16 webinar: Improved Standalone BLAST database and programs: now with taxonomic information

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Next Wednesday, May 16, 2018, we’ll show you how to download and use the latest standalone BLAST databases, dbv5. You’ll learn how to use BLASTdbv5 and the new BLAST programs to limit searches to taxonomic groups and to retrieve sequences from the database by taxonomy.

Date and time: Wed, May 16, 2018 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EDT

Register here: https://bit.ly/2qW7LLy

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. A few days after the live presentation, you can view the recording on the NCBI YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.

Human annotation release 109 for GRCh38.p12 is available in RefSeq

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You can now download human annotation release 109 on FTP or explore it in the Genome Data Viewer, in the Gene database, and with BLAST.

Highlights in release 109:

  • A total of 20,203 protein-coding genes and 17,871 non-coding genes were annotated.
  • The number of annotated curated transcripts increased by 17% and genes with two or more curated alternative variants increased by 8%.
  • The annotation includes 6,862 features and 2,075 GeneIDs for non-genic functional elements, such as regulatory regions and known structural elements. For example, see the opsin locus control region (OPSIN-LCR).

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BLAST is transitioning to accession.version-based databases

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As you may have read in previous posts, NCBI is phasing out sequence GIs and transitioning to accession.version identifiers.  To help you prepare for this transition, we created sample BLAST databases that will help you make code changes to your programs and workflows for the switch to accession identifiers.

The sample databases, env_nr_v5 and tsa_nr_v5, are on FTP.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Help Desk.

April 11 webinar: Getting the most out of web BLAST tabular format

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Next Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 12:00PM EDT, we will present a webinar that will help you enhance and expand your tabular saved BLAST results with basic Unix tools and the NCBI EDirect suite of programs. You will see how to add useful information to tabular format results like taxonomy, sequence titles, and links to sequence records and publications.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. A few days after the live presentation, you can view the recording on the NCBI YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.

The NCBI web BLAST service has many useful download formats, including the traditional pairwise output, tabular formats and highly structured formats. These formats allow you to easily save your BLAST results for later processing, editing and annotating.

5 NCBI articles in 2018 Nucleic Acids Research database issue

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The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research database issue features several papers from NCBI staff that cover the status and future of databases including CCDS, ClinVar, GenBank and RefSeq. These papers are also available on PubMed. To read an article, click on the PMID number listed below.

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Introducing the new Virus Sequence Search Interface

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BLAST is a powerful search tool, but often a search is just the beginning of the journey. We put ourselves in the shoes of a researcher who has just sequenced a handful of samples from the latest viral outbreak and tried to understand what information would be most useful. We also reached out to researchers in the field and asked: a) what questions do they really want to answer? and b) how can NCBI best provide the answers? Based on insights from those questions and answers, we developed the new Virus Sequence Search Interface (Fig. 1). The Search Interface is an NCBI Labs project, which means it is an experimental project, and we may modify the resource based on your feedback and experiences.

Figure 1. The Virus Sequence Selection Interface.

Figure 1. The Virus Sequence Selection Interface. The Virus Sequence Selection Interface accepts as input nucleotide and protein accessions, as well as FASTA and plain-text formatted sequences. The user selects either “Nucleotide” or “Protein,” depending on the sequence type, and selects the virus type from the pull-down menu below the text entry field.

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