Apr 2, 2015

On Monday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is now allowing investigators to request permission to transfer controlled-access genomic and associated phenotypic data obtained from NIH-designated data repositories, like dbGaP, under the auspices of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy to public or private cloud systems for data storage and analysis.

Mar 31, 2015

Updated annotations for the human and mouse RefSeq genomes produced by the Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline are now available. New known RefSeq transcripts (NM_ and NR_ accessions) and non-transcribed pseudogenes (NG_ accessions) were used for these annotations. The number of model RefSeq predictions (XM_ and XR_ accessions) also increased through the use of additional RNA-Seq datasets, especially for human where model RefSeq annotated on GRCh38.p2 contain 41% more exonic bases (31 MBp) than the known RefSeq.

Mar 25, 2015

On April 8th, NCBI will present a five-minute webinar introducing MOLE-BLAST, a tool for clustering targeted sequences, like those from 16s rRNA, with database sequences and providing taxonomic context. MOLE-BLAST can quickly establish taxonomy for sequences from uncultured or environmental sequences. To register, click here.