NLM Announcements

NLM to Hold First Annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine on Thursday, March 21 03/14/2017 05:32 PM EDT The NLM invites you to attend the first annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine, a program made possible by a generous gift to the NLM by the Michael E. DeBakey Medical Foundation. It IS your father's Big Data–and your mother's, and your sibling's, and even yours! 03/14/2017 04:00 PM EDT Let's make it useful to them. GenBank release 218.0 is now available 03/14/2017 01:33 PM EDT GenBank release 218.0 (2/13/2017) has 199,341,377 traditional records containing 228,719,437,638 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 409,490,397 WGS records containing 1,892,966,308,635 base pairs of sequence data, 151,431,485 TSA records containing 133,517,212,104 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 1,438,349 TLS records containing 636,923,295 base pairs of sequence data. NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2017, Updated NLM Catalog Sidebar Filters [Editor's note added] 03/14/2017 09:04 AM EDT Editor's note: This change was implemented in the NLM Catalog on March 8, 2017. NLM Technical Bulletin, Mar-Apr 2017, PubMed Updates March 2017 [Editor's note added] 03/14/2017 09:04 AM EDT Editor's note: These changes were implemented in PubMed on March 8, 2017. A Piece of Pi: Historical Perspectives from NLM 03/14/2017 09:00 AM EDT By Kenneth M. Koyle and Jeffrey S. Reznick Today is Pi Day, the internationally-recognized event when communities of various disciplines come together to celebrate the importance and significance of the Greek letter π, the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant—the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter—which is approximately 3.14159. […] Genetics Home Reference: nonsyndromic congenital nail disorder 10 03/14/2017 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/nonsyndromic-congenital-nail-disorder-10 Genetics Home Reference: Pyle disease 03/14/2017 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/pyle-disease   This service is provided to you at no charge by the Office Of Communication and Public Liaison. This email was sent using GovDelivery, on behalf of: U.S. National Library of Medicine · 8600 Rockville Pike · Bethesda, MD 20894