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NCBI’s Genome Data Viewer now displays data from track hubs

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The Genome Data Viewer’s (GDV) browser display now supports content provided in track hubs. This new GDV feature, summarized in this short video, extends the genome browser’s capability when it comes to viewing user-supplied data tracks alongside NCBI-provided tracks.  You now have multiple options to analyze your data that include uploading your data (file/URL), streaming individual files from a remote location and/or connecting to a track hub. In all instances, GDV recognizes a variety of popular file formats with support for additional file formats planned. In the display, you can now also easily distinguish user-supplied tracks by their green-tinted track labels. Continue reading →

NCBI to retire Clone DB web interface

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Starting in January 2019, the sequence content of Clone DB will be frozen, and its web interfaces will no longer be available. NCBI will continue to produce and make genomic clone placements available as annotations in NCBI’s Genome Data Viewer (GDV) using the sequence data currently in Clone DB. These placements and their corresponding underlying (now static) library and sequence data will also be accessible on the Clone DB FTP site.

The collection of Clone DB records for cell-based (integrated) gene targeting and gene trap libraries will also be retired in January. These data were provided to Clone DB by MGI.  Clone DB users should refer to MGI for their continuing research needs.

Please contact us with any comments, concerns, or if you need help with the use of Clone DB data.

Clone DB was originally implemented as the Clone Registry during the human and mouse genome projects. In subsequent years, it expanded to represent clone-associated data for a broad range of organisms. Clone DB has been a valuable resource connecting users with information and reagents for genomic and cell-based clones. However, with the advent of short read sequencing, fewer and fewer genomic clone end and insert sequences are submitted to NCBI every year, and the usage of and need for Clone DB has dropped significantly.

The new BLAST widget seamlessly integrates your results into NCBI’s Genome Data Viewer (GDV)

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Want to analyze your BLAST results in the context of a genome browser? Want to compare those results against other genome assembly annotations? The BLAST widget, a new browser feature, lets you do that. It provides direct access within GDV to execute and manage BLAST queries (blastn, tblastn) aligned to the specific assembly displayed in GDV.

To learn about this tool, keep reading or watch this short introduction video. Further details are in GDV’s help documents.

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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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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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NCBI retires Map Viewer web interface

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On October 24, 2017, we announced the replacement of NCBI’s Map Viewer with the Genome Data Viewer (GDV) . As described in that announcement, the Map Viewer web interface will be removed in one week on May 2, 2018. Map Viewer links will be redirected to the GDV home page. Map Viewer static data will remain on the NCBI FTP site. Please review details related to the FTP content in our February announcement.

Please contact us with any comments and concerns, or if you need more help with the transition from Map Viewer to GDV.

See your data in context with NCBI’s updated Genome Data Viewer

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We know it’s important to you to be able to browse and visually inspect variants and alignments from your next-gen sequencing experiments, so we’ve added remote streaming of BAM files to the Genome Data Viewer (GDV). All you need are your BAM files and the index files (.bai extension) in a location that allows HTTP access and you can stream BAM files as custom tracks into the GDV.

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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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November 1 webinar: Introducing the Genome Data Viewer (GDV)

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On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, we will present a webinar on GDV, NCBI’s full-featured genome browser. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to explore and analyze sequences and annotations for eukaryotic RefSeq genome assemblies. We’ll show you how to:

  • Search across the entire assembly for genes, products and other markers or jump to a specific position or range
  • Display any of seven preselected track sets highlighting various aspects of the assembly or create and load your own custom track sets from your NCBI account.
  • Load and display submitted alignment data from NCBI’s GEO or SRA.
  • Upload your own annotation and variant data
  • Display BLAST or Primer-BLAST results on the assembly in the browser.

Date and time: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00-12:30PM EDT

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about attending the webinar. After the live presentation, the webinar will be uploaded to the NCBI YouTube channel. You can learn about future webinars on the Webinars and Courses page.