As part of the Human Genome Project, NCBI, part of the National Library of Medicine, and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) established the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism database (dbSNP) in 1998. Over the last 25 years, dbSNP has evolved into a reliable central public repository for genetic variation data. dbSNP is a community-accepted reference … Continue reading dbSNP Enhances Scalability, Data Diversity, and Accessibility →

30 March 2023

Do you want to be able to quickly filter your virus search results based on important attributes? Good news, now you can! We are pleased to announce the extension of Dashboard Visualizations for any virus in the NCBI Virus collection (Figure 1). Dashboard Visualizations allow data to be quickly visualized in a graphical presentation based … Continue reading NCBI Virus Extends Dashboard Visualizations to all Virus Sequences! →

29 March 2023

Want to submit high-quality data quickly and easily to GenBank? Check out our Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool, a quality assurance process that you can run yourself. FCS offers enhanced contaminant detection sensitivity to improve your genome assemblies and facilitate high-quality data submissions to GenBank. We recently made several improvements to make the tool even … Continue reading New Improvements! Try out our Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) Tool →

22 March 2023

As of September 2023, NCBI’s Genome Decoration Page (GDP) will no longer be available. Due to low usage of GDP, we are focusing our development efforts on our more popular resources and tools.   If you are using GDP to view your data mapped to genomes, we encourage you to check out our Genome Data Viewer (GDV) … Continue reading NCBI’s Genome Decoration Page (GDP) to Retire in September 2023 →

21 March 2023

Effective June 2023, the HomoloGene records will redirect to the Datasets Gene Table Do you use HomoloGene to view and download data? You can now access updated homology data from NCBI Datasets through the Datasets Gene Table with connections to NCBI Orthologs. Go directly from a HomoloGene record to the Datasets Gene Table that will … Continue reading New Way to View and Download Related Genes →

16 March 2023

The 2023 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue features papers from NCBI staff on GenBank, Conserved Domain Database, and more. The citations are available in PubMed with full-text available in PubMed Central (PMC). To read an article, click on the PMCID number listed below.  Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2023 PMCID: PMC9825438  NCBI … Continue reading Read About NCBI Resources in 2023 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue →

15 March 2023

RefSeq release 217 is now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. What’s included in this release? As of March 8, 2023, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data, containing: 348,351,219 records 254,500,694 proteins 50,975,429 RNAs sequences from 130,837 organisms The release is provided in … Continue reading RefSeq Release 217 →

14 March 2023

To make it easier for you to find and access Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data, we are re-organizing and improving our cloud storage systems.   Beginning April 2023, we will move the SARS-CoV-2 normalized data and source files from the COVID-19 data buckets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to the NIH … Continue reading Streamlining Access to SRA COVID-19 Datasets on the Cloud →

9 March 2023

Do you submit or access Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data? In an ongoing effort to enhance your experience, NCBI is making several improvements to our widely used SRA database. SRA is the largest publicly available repository of high throughput sequencing data. The archive accepts data from all organisms as well as metagenomic and environmental surveys. … Continue reading 3+ Ways NCBI is Enhancing the SRA Database →

8 March 2023

Legacy pages will be redirected effective June 2023 In June 2023, NCBI’s Assembly and Genome record pages will be redirected to new Datasets pages as part of our ongoing effort to modernize and improve your user experience. NCBI Datasets is a new resource that makes it easier to find and download genome data.   We will … Continue reading New & Improved NCBI Datasets Genome and Assembly Pages →

7 March 2023