Entrez Programming Utilities (E-Utils)

PubChem

GenePlot

New NLM Catalog in Entrez

New Genome Builds

New Microbial Genomes in GenBank

Whole Genome Shotgun Project

Web BLAST

Trace Archive Grows

New Organisms in UniGene

RefSeq Version 8

Submissions Corner

Predicted Records

GenBank Release 144

BLAST 2.2.10

Publications

Masthead

New Formatting Options, new Databases in Web BLAST

Selecting the “new formatter” option allows BLAST results to be formatted in a new "Pairwise with identities" mode that highlights differences between the query and a target sequence. The new formatter also offers an option to display masked characters in lower-case and with different colors rather than simply replacing each with an “X” or an “N”. A “sequence retrieval” formatting option allows database sequences to be marked for batch retrieval using check boxes appearing in the BLAST results.
A “refseq” database is now available for protein searches and “refseq_rna” and “refseq_genomic” databases are available for nucleotide searches. Also available for nucleotide searches are the “wgs”, and “chromosome” databases for Whole Genome Shotgun project sequences and complete genomes, chromosomes, or contigs from RefSeq, respectively. The RefSeq and WGS databases are also available via FTP at: