NCBI Announcements

NCBI News - September 2009

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST

The September 2009 issue of the NCBI News is available online. The featured resource article for this month is titled, "The Genome Reference Consortium Human Genome Build 37 now Available." Please see the new issue on the NCBI Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=JIXMIE475.bid.1

NCBI News - August 2009

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EST

The August 2009 issue of the NCBI News is available online. The featured resource article for this month is titled, "The NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA) of Next-Generation Sequencing Data." Please see the new issue on the NCBI Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=ncbinews&part=Aug09

NCBI News - July 2009

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EST

The July 2009 issue of the NCBI News is now available online. The featured resource article this month is entitled, "The BioSystems Database of Biological Pathways." Please see the new issue on the NCBI Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=JGMOfA182.bid.1

June issue of the NCBI News

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:00:00 EST

The June 2009 issue of the NCBI News is online now. The featured resource article this month is entitled, "An Expanded Set of Discovery Components in the Entrez System." Please see the new issue on the Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=JFKPFT637.bid.1

NCBI News - May 2009

Mon, 18 May 2009 12:00:00 EST

The May 2009 issue of the NCBI News is online now. A special featured data section provides a brief tutorial on obtaining 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus sequences. The featured resource article is entitled, "Protein Multiple Alignment Tool Web Services." Please see the new issue on the Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=ncbinews&part=JEKOtU220.bid.1

NCBI News - April 2009

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:00 EST

The April 2009 issue of the NCBI News is available online with a featured resource article entitled, "PubChem Now Offers 3-D Small Molecule Structures and a New Conformer Viewer (Pc3D)." Please see the new issue via the NCBI Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=apr09

NCBI News March 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:00:00 EST

The March issue of the NCBI News is available online with a featured resource article entitled, The New Entrez Sequence View has an Emphasis on Discovery. Please see the new issue via the Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=Mar09.

NCBI News - February 2009

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

The February issue of the NCBI News is available online with a featured resource article entitled, Improvements to NCBI Services Promote Discovery. Please see the new issue via the Bookshelf at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=feb09.

NCBI News - January 2009

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

The January issue of the NCBI News is available online via the Bookshelf at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=Jan09

December NCBI News/NCBI Announce

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST

A new issue of the NCBI News is available on the NCBI Bookshelf: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=dec08 .

New NCBI News/NCBI Announce

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

The November issue of the NCBI News is available on the NCBI Books website at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi&part=nov08 . Please note that NCBI Announce and the NCBI News have been merged.

NCBI Announce

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EST

A new NCBI Announce is available online. NCBI Announce and the NCBI News newsletter have been merged and now appear on the NCBI Bookshelf. The first issue is available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=newsncbi

New NCBI Announce - June 2008

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:00:00 EST

A new NCBI Announce is available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce6-08.html.

NCBI Announce

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST

A new NCBI Announce is available online.

NCBI Announce

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:40:00 EST

A new NCBI Announce is available on the web at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce2-08.html. To sign up for an email version, please see: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce_submit.html.

NCBI Announce - November 2007

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:15:00 EST

A new NCBI Announce report is available online at: http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce11-07.

NCBI Announce September 2007

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:40:00 EST

The September 2007 NCBI Announce is available via the Web at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce9-07.html.

NCBI Announce

Mon, 07 May 2007 14:05:00 EST

To view this email via web, please see:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/news/announce5-07> NCBI Announce is now available as an RSS Feed. The new BLAST pages are now the default for using the BLAST tool. Also BLAST version 2.2.16 is now available from the BLAST download page.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/download.shtml> A Beta release of the new Entrez Protein Clusters database is available. This database is a collection of both curated and noncurated, related protein clusters from the complete genomes of prokaryotes, plasmids, and organelles.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=proteinclusters> Seven new or updated NCBI database papers are available in the 2007 database issue of Nucleic Acids Research. Articles include: GEO, GenBank, CDD, Entrez Gene, MMDB, RefSeq, and Database Resources of NCBI. Thirty finished microbial genomes were released (March 13-May 3).
The original sequence data files submitted to GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ can be found at: <ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Bacteria/>. The RefSeq provisional versions of these genomes are available via FTP.
<ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/> GenBank News GenBank Release 159.0 is available via web and FTP and includes information as of April 12, 2007.
<ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/> Updates and Enhancements A new image viewer is available in PubMed Central that allows users to zoom in and move around the image in larger view. For an example, look at figure 2 in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 October 10; 103(41): 15097–15102.
<http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1622782#figures-tables-sec> Upcoming Courses in the NCBI Field Guide Series "A Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources" is a lecture and hands-on computer workshop covering GenBank and other NCBI Resources and demonstrates the effective use of the Entrez database system, BLAST sequence similarity search tool and other NCBI database resources and tools. For more information, see:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/FieldGuide> May 10 - National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD May 17 - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR May 24 - Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA May 31 - The University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK June 7 - The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA June 12 - NCBI Gene Expression Resources, The University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Exploring 3D Molecular Structures Using NCBI Tools" is a course including lectures and computer workshops on effectively using the NCBI databases, search services, and analysis tools that focus on 3D macromolecular structure data. For more information, see the course web page:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/Structure/course.html> May 23 - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ "Principles of PubChem" includes lectures and computer workshops on effectively using the NCBI PubChem databases, search services, and analysis tools. For more information, please see the course web page:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/PubChem/course.html> May 10 - NIEHS, Raleigh, NC May 15 - NIMH, Bethesda, MD May 24 - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Upcoming NCBI MiniCourses "MiniCourses" are available for more than a dozen bioinformatics topics. They are 2.5 hours in length with the first hour and half devoted to a demonstration by the instructor that is followed by a one hour hands-on session. May 8 - Identification of Disease Genes, NCI, Frederick, MD May 10 - Making Sense of DNA and Protein Seqeunces/Entrez Gene Quick Start, MIT, Cambridge, MA May 11 - Structural Analysis Quick Start/MapViewer Quick Start, MIT, Cambridge, MA May 15 - Microbial Genomes Quick Start, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ May 15 - Making Sense of DNA and Protein Seqeunces/BLAST Quick Start, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA May 16 - Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences/Identification of Disease Genes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA May 16 - Entrez Gene Quick Start/Making Sense of DNA and Protein Seqeunces, NCBI, Bethesda, MD May 17 - Identification of Disease Genes/Correlating Disease Genes to Phenotypes, NCBI, Bethesda, MD For more information, see:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/minicourses/> Upcoming NCBI Technical Workshops "NCBI 4-Pack: Practical Web-based Analysis", a 2-day course including both lectures/demonstrations and computer hands-on sessions on practical applications of bioinformatics resources. The next course
will be offered at the National Library of Medicine May 16-17, 2007. The course is free but an application is required. For more information and to apply for the course, see the course Web page.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/PowerTools/eutils/course.html> Upcoming NCBI Exhibits at Conferences NCBI exhibit staff will be in attendance at the <http://www.asmcue.org/> 14th ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators, May 18-20, Buffalo, NY, <http://gm.asm.org/> American Society for Microbiology annual meeting, May 21-25, Toronto, Ontario, and <http://hgm2007.hugo-international.org/> HUGO's 12th Human Genome meeting, May 21-24, Montreal, Canada.
For additional meetings where NCBI will exhibit see:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/outreach/exhibitsched.html> NCBI Announce Lists and RSS Feeds Fourteen topic-specific mailing lists for receiving e-mail announcements about changes and updates to NCBI resources are described at:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/Summary/email_lists.html> Ten RSS feeds are now available from NCBI and include the NCBI Bookshelf, HomoloGene, LinkOut, PubMed Central, Probe, PubMed and UniGene. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/feed/> Comments and questions about NCBI resources may be sent to the NCBI Service Desk, info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, or by calling 301-480-9241 between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday.