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NCBI Announcements

  • NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

    24 Jan 2012

    February 21-22, 2012 @ the NIH: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

  • New NCBI Newsletter

    01 Dec 2011

    Information on the new Genome Site, a new 16S BLAST database, updates to Sequin, changes in EUtilities, new PheGenI and Highlight Sequence Features tools, BLAST videos on the YouTube Channel, and more....

  • NCBI will continue to operate SRA

    13 Oct 2011

    Subsequent to an announcement in February 2011 that NCBI was planning to phase out the SRA due to funding constraints, NIH support has been provided that will enable the continuation of SRA. NCBI will continue to operate the SRA as NIH's primary archive of high-throughput sequencing data and as part of the international partnership of archives at the NCBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the DNA Database of Japan.

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