NCBI Announcements

Now Available: NCBI Insights Blog!

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:00:00 EST

NCBI has just released a new blog called NCBI Insights. Blog posts will provide an insider’s perspective to help users better understand us and our resources, explore issues of scientific interest that drive our resource development, and demonstrate how our resources can be used. Be sure to check in to the NCBI Insights Blog every week or so and let us know what you think!

Come to the NCBI Discovery Workshops on February 4&5!

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:00:00 EST

Spaces are still available for the free, 2-day Discovery Workshops to be held on the NIH Campus. Each hands-on session emphasizes a different set of NCBI resources using specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools and to demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks.

New version of Genome Workbench available

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:00:00 EST

An integrated, downloadable application for viewing and analyzing sequence data, the new version of Genome Workbench (2.6.0) has added features, improvements & bug fixes. For more information, see the Release Notes

NCBI's July Newsletter is on the Bookshelf

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:00:00 EST

Introduction to the 1000 Genomes Browser, PubMed's Citation Manager and Favorites Button, new and modified BLAST services, Rhesus macaque in HomoloGene, a request for comments on GRC's plan for a new human genome build, and more....

New Microbial BLAST Page

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:00 EST

Now easier to use and with the familiar format and features of the standard NCBI BLAST services, including auto-complete assist for entering text into the "Organism" box, the ability to include or exclude multiple taxonomic categories, and more....

Sign up for the Fall Discovery Workshops!

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:00:00 EST

Registration is now available for the September 4-5 Workshops. Each hands-on session emphasizes a different set of NCBI resources using specific examples to highlight important features of the resources and tools and to demonstrate how to accomplish common tasks.

NCBI's April Newsletter is on the Bookshelf

Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:00 EST

Information about May's Discovery Workshop, the new GTR and Assembly databases, DELTA-BLAST, Remap & Variation Reporter tools, Aspera-download method for large datasets, 1000 Genomes data on the Amazon Cloud, new YouTube Videos and more...

New Filter Sidebar has been added to PubMed

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:00:00 EST

The Filter Sidebar displays the useful features of the popular Limits page. This should make it easier to refine PubMed search results. For more information, please see the YouTube Video.

DELTA BLAST - more sensitive protein searching

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:00 EST

Domain Enhanced Lookup Time Accelerated BLAST (DELTA-BLAST) runs a fast RPS-BLAST search in order to construct a PSSM and then searches the PSSM against a BLAST database. To run a search click here.

EUtilities: ESummary & EFetch version 2.0 now available

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:00:00 EST

The Entrez Programming Utilities have been updated. ESummary now provides an enhanced XML output for Entrez document summaries (DocSums) and EFetch is now supported for SRA, BioSystems and BioSample databases. For more information, see the EUtilties Help Documentation.

NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:00 EST

May 15-16, 2012 @ the NIH: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

BLAST+ v.2.2.26 is now available

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EST

The new BLAST+ release contains a number of important changes and improvements, including the addition of Finite Size Correction to the blastp algorithm to improve statistics and DELTA-BLAST - a new algorithm integrating conserved domain searching with blastp to improve sensitivity.

NIH/NCBI launches the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST

The GTR is a new resource for finding information about genetic tests and test providers: GTR homepage & Press Release.

NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:00 EST

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST

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

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST

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.

New NCBI News Issue

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:00:00 EST

New Feature Highlighter in the sequence databases and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based BLAST service, Conserved Domain Database and Genome Workbench updates, new YouTube Videos, as well as NCBI workshops at the NIH & ICHG/ASHG meeting, and more....

NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EST

September 27-28, 2011 @ NLM: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

New NCBI News Issue

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EST

Information on the redesigned PopSet resource, as well as new My NCBI Interface, updated BLAST Genome search pages, new TSA BLAST database, addition of human variant attributes to dbSNP, continuation of the Sequence Read and Trace Archive Databases, and more....

Preliminary genomic assemblies from two isolates from the European E. coli outbreak now available

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EST

Preliminary genomic assemblies of two isolates are in the Nucleotide database: Life Technology, et al. record - Accession: AFOB00000000 & BGI, et al. record - Accession: AFOG00000000.

New version of Cn3D (v.4.3) now available

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EST

A new version of this popular 3D molecular visualization program has been released and includes: new stereo views, more powerful highlighting features, improved alignment algorithms, and assists in viewing biologically functional units and assemblies.

Sequences from two isolates from the European E. coli outbreak are available

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EST

The SRA database contains genome sequence reads for one isolate (Accession: SRX067313) and a preliminary genomic assembly of another isolate in the Nucleotide database (Accession: AFOB00000000).

NCBI @ American Society of Microbiology 2011 Meeting, New Orleans, LA

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EST

NCBI Personnel will be at Booth 1159 on May 22-24th to answer questions and demonstrate features of our website.

NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:00:00 EST

May 23-24, 2011 @ NLM: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

NCBI @ Experimental Biology 2011, Washington DC

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST

NCBI Personnel will be at Booth 1339 on April 10-12th from 9am to 4pm to answer questions and demonstrate features of our website. We will also present a Workshop on "NCBI Web Services: databases, tools, and site configuration options" on Sunday, April 10th at 3-4pm, Room 204C.

New NCBI News Issue

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:00:00 EST

Information about the new PubMed Mobile and Bookshelf interfaces, updates to Mouse Genome & CCDS annotations, new HomoloGene, UniGene and Genome Workbench releases, announcement of the retirement of Peptidome and Trace and Short Read Archives, and a response to a report of cross-species contamination in submitted genomic sequence data.

Retirement of Peptidome, SRA & Trace Archive

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:00:00 EST

Due to budget constraints, NCBI will be discontinuing the Peptidome repository for protein/peptide mass spectroscopy data, and the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Trace Archive repositories for high-throughput sequence data. Closure of the databases will occur in phases.

The Bookshelf has a new design & Browsing Tool

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST

Featuring a new homepage, search results display, limits and advanced search, the Bookshelf also has a new "Browse Titles" tool (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/browse/) designed to help find interesting documents quickly.

New NCBI News Issue

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST

Information about updated resources for Genomic Libraries and Clones, new dbSNP BLAST Pages, Gene Links to highlight Biological Pathways, new UniGene Organisms & Genomic assemblies, new YouTube Tutorial Videos, plus links to NAR 2011 Database Issue's NCBI-authored Articles.

NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:00:00 EST

February 15-16, 2011 @ NLM: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

NAR's 2011 Database Issue is out with 9 NCBI-Authored Papers

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:00:00 EST

New articles are available describing the new Epigenomics resource, and improvements to the Gene, GEO, SRA, and CDD databases. Additional articles describe developments for GenBank & the INSDC, as well as many other NCBI Resources.

New NCBI News Issue

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST

Information about the RefSeqGene Project and BLAST service, enhancements made to Gene pages and Primer-BLAST graphic displays, the NCBI's YouTube Channel, and more....

NCBI’s YouTube Channel has "How To" Videos

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:45:00 EST

A growing set of videos can be found at YouTube, including tutorials for how to “Retrieve sequences for an organism”, “Obtain the genomic sequence for a gene”, “Search and view a gene in Genome Workbench”, “Use the Epigenomics Sample Browser”, and more!

NCBI Workshop: A Practical Guide to Genome-Scale Data

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:10:00 EST

Presented at the ASHG Meeting on Thursday, November 4, 2010, the Workshop description and speakers' slides are available.

New Find-in-sequence feature for Nucleotide and Protein databases

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST

See the featured article in the September issue of the NCBI News.

dbVar officially launched

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST

NCBI's Database of Genomic Structural Variation is available to the public with a new web page, documentation, and a brief article in Nature Genetics (PMID: 20877315).

MyNCBI supports OpenID and InCommons IDs

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EST

A list of supported organizations can be found on the MyNCBI home page.

Personalized settings in My NCBI

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST

Personalized preferences such as record format and results display can be set in My NCBI for NCBI's sequence databases Nucleotide, Protein, GSS, and EST.

Featured article: Updated Entrez Sequence Database Interfaces

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:00:00 EST

The July NCBI News is available online.

Discovery Workshop

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:00:00 EST

A two-day NCBI learning workshop will be held on the NIH campus, September 29-30, 2010.

Selected Structures, Taxonomy on Wikipedia

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00:00 EST

The June NCBI News is available on the Bookshelf.

New Nuc/Prot pages

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EST

Nucleotide and Protein pages have an updated look and feel on their homepages and results summary pages.

Education resource information in the May NCBI News

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:00:00 EST

May NCBI News is available.

OMIM's new look, Epigenomics in April NCBI News

Mon, 10 May 2010 15:00:00 EST

The April NCBI News issue is now available.

NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project data in GEO database

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EST

GEO's Roadmap Epigenomics Project Data Listings page allows datasets to be browsed by sample or by study.

March News issue available

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EST

Includes My NCBI, E-Utility, and BLAST news.

NIH announces Genetic Testing Registry

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST

NCBI will be responsible for developing the registry.

BLAST+ in print

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST

A newly published article describes improvements and new features in the most recent BLAST+ software release.

New database: Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST

NCBI’s new database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar) archives large scale genomic variation data as well as associations of defined variants with phenotypic information.

January 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:00:00 EST

The January issue of the NCBI News is available online. Included is a list of recent publications related to NCBI resources.

November and October News

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

Featured: New Discovery-oriented PubMed and NCBI Homepage. This month's featured article discusses the recent overhaul of the new PubMed and NCBI homepages. It also provides tips and explanations on searching within the new PubMed format.

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.