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NCBI Announcements

  • RefSeq Release 71 is now available!

    Jul 13, 2015

    RefSeq Release 71 is now available online, on the FTP site, and through NCBI's programming utilities, with 77,730,891 records describing 52,494,032 proteins, 11,803,354 RNAs, and sequences from 55,267 organisms. More information can be found in the Release Notes.

  • July 15th webinar: "EDirect: Bringing the E-Utilities to the UNIX Command Line"

    Jul 1, 2015

    In two weeks, NCBI staff will introduce EDirect, a simple, easy-to-use command-line interface for E-Utilities, the NCBI Entrez API. In this webinar, you will learn how to use EDirect to search, retrieve and process literature and molecular data from NCBI. You will also learn how to set up pipelines for common tasks.

  • Tree Viewer version 1.5 improves performance

    Jun 30, 2015

    NCBI Tree Viewer version 1.5 includes several new features, improvements and bug fixes, including improved tree loading notifications, fixed resizing in full view and more. For a full list of updates, see the Tree Viewer release notes.

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