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Head Nurse of the Library? 05/09/2017 03:30 PM EDT How a nurse's way of knowing helps me do my job. Phasing out support for non-human genome organism data in dbSNP and dbVar 05/09/2017 11:05 AM EDT This blog post is directed toward people who use dbSNP and dbVar, particularly those who submit non-human data to the two databases. dbSNP and dbVar archive, process, display and report information related to germline and somatic variations from multiple species. … Continue reading → Phasing out support for non-human genome organism data in dbSNP and dbVar 05/09/2017 11:05 AM EDT This blog post is directed toward people who use dbSNP and dbVar, particularly those who submit non-human data to the two databases. dbSNP and dbVar archive, process, display and report information related to germline and somatic variations from multiple species. … Continue reading → U.S. Army Base Hospital #4 Embarks for Europe 05/09/2017 11:00 AM EDT By Susan Speaker ~ The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Just one month later, the first unit of the American Continue reading NLM Technical Bulletin, May-Jun 2017, UMLS 2017AA Release Available 05/09/2017 08:10 AM EDT The 2017AA release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Knowledge Sources is available for download as of May 8, 2017. Genetics Home Reference: FBXL4-related encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 05/09/2017 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/fbxl4-related-encephalomyopathic-mitochondrial-dna-depletion-syndrome Genetics Home Reference: monoamine oxidase A deficiency 05/09/2017 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/monoamine-oxidase-a-deficiency Genetics Home Reference: uncombable hair syndrome 05/09/2017 12:00 AM EDT https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/uncombable-hair-syndrome dbSNP's human build 150 has doubled the amount of RefSNP records! 05/08/2017 02:38 PM EDT dbSNP's Human Build 150 includes a large number of new submissions from the Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) and TopMed, increasing the total number of Human RefSNPs in the database from 154 to 324 million. TopMed has also provided new allele frequency … Continue reading → Eleven eukaryotic annotations added to RefSeq in April 2017 05/08/2017 02:04 PM EDT In April, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released new annotations in RefSeq for the following eleven organisms: Bombus terrestris (buff-tailed bumblebee) Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) Athalia rosae (coleseed sawfly) Dendrobium catenatum (a monocot) Phalaenopsis equestris (a monocot) Orbicella faveolata (stony coral) Pogona … Continue reading → NCBI to assist with NYGC Genomics Hackathon June 19-21 05/08/2017 12:36 PM EDT From June 19-21, 2017, the NCBI will assist in a bioinformatics hackathon at the New York Genome Center (NYGC). This hackathon will focus on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, proteomics and metadata. To apply for this hackathon, … Continue reading → NCBI researchers and collaborators discover novel group of giant viruses 05/05/2017 01:03 PM EDT Nearly complete set of translation-related genes lends support to hypothesis that giant viruses evolved from smaller viruses An international team of researchers, including NCBI's Eugene Koonin and Natalya Yutin, has discovered a novel group of giant viruses (dubbed "Klosneuviruses") with … Continue reading → GenBank release 219.0 is available via FTP 05/04/2017 03:56 PM EDT GenBank release 219.0 (4/14/2017) has 200,877,884 traditional records containing 231,824,951,552 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 451,840,147 WGS records containing 2,035,032,639,807 base pairs of sequence data, 165,068,542 TSA records containing 149,038,907,599 base pairs of sequence data, as … Continue reading → Six functional prototypes available from the March NCBI hackathon 05/03/2017 02:57 PM EDT At the March 2017 NCBI Genomics Hackathon, participants developed six functional software prototypes, several of which are still under active development. Software is available from the NCBI-Hackathons GitHub site. Squidstream provides naming consistency by converting sequence feature IDs in entire … Continue reading → Eight new eukaryotic genome annotations added to RefSeq 05/01/2017 03:45 PM EDT In the past month, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline has released new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: Zea mays (maize) Labrus bergylta (ballan wrasse) Monopterus albus (swamp eel) Corvus cornix cornix (hooded crow) Prunus persica (peach) Rhincodon … Continue reading → May 10th NCBI Minute: How to Locate and Use Human Genomes and Annotations from NCBI 05/01/2017 01:00 PM EDT Next week, NCBI staff will show you how to quickly find and download human genome annotations from both the web and the command line for incorporation into your workflows. We will also show you how to convert the accessions in … Continue reading → New Genome Data Viewer access page 04/28/2017 03:36 PM EDT NCBI is pleased to offer a direct entry point to the NCBI Genome Data Viewer (GDV) that supports the exploration, visualization and analysis of eukaryotic RefSeq genome assemblies. The new GDV homepage includes an interactive interface for a quick overview … Continue reading →   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