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Happy Birthday, Blog! 11/14/2017 04:00 PM EST Today marks one year since we launched Musings on the Mezzanine. Surprisingly, I've found that writing for it has often been the high point of my week. I like having a way to communicate important happenings here at NLM. I also like using the blog as a way to wrestle with ideas. Many times I … Continue reading "Happy Birthday, Blog!" DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS EXTENDED TO 11/20: RFI, Next-Generation Data Science Challenges in Health and Biomedicine 11/14/2017 02:00 PM EST Notice of Extension of the Response Date for NOT-LM-17-006 " Request for Information (RFI): Next-Generation Data Science Challenges in Health and Biomedicine" Five new videos on YouTube: APIs, PubMed, RefSeq & more 11/14/2017 01:15 PM EST Several videos are up on the NCBI YouTube, including recordings of recent NCBI Minute webinars. NCBI Minute: The NCBI Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) This NCBI Minute introduces the diverse group of APIs available to access NCBI database information and tools. … Continue reading → RefSeq release 85 is now public 11/14/2017 01:00 PM EST RefSeq release 85 is now accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI's programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available, as of November 6, 2017, and contains 146,710,309 records, including 100,043,962 proteins, 20,905,608 RNAs, and sequences … Continue reading → Tree Viewer 1.7.0 now available 11/14/2017 12:57 PM EST NCBI has recently updated Tree Viewer with new features, improvements and bug fixes, including improved sub-tree navigation and rendering. For a full list of changes, see the release notes. NCBI Tree Viewer is a tool for viewing your phylogenetic tree data. More Twists than the Double Helix: Jim Ostell's Surprising Path—Part 2 of 2 11/14/2017 11:55 AM EST Director of NCBI, Dr. Jim Ostell called his journey to NCBI "a long and winding and strange road." Part one of this circuitous path, which NLM in Focus published last week, included college classes he never thought he'd need, counter-cultural days, studying the anatomy of the cricket, borrowing a secretary's computer because it was the… Drawn To, Drawn From Experience 11/14/2017 11:00 AM EST Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright España Senior Research Fellow Continue reading Genetics Home Reference: type 2 diabetes 11/14/2017 12:00 AM EST https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/type-2-diabetes   This service is provided to you at no charge by the NLM Office Of Communication and Public Liaison. This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: U.S. National Library of Medicine · 8600 Rockville Pike · Bethesda, MD 20894