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  • New Genome BLAST selector on the BLAST homepage

    Oct 28, 2014

    You can now easily find Genome-specific BLAST pages using the search box on the BLAST homepage under the “BLAST Assembled Genomes” section. This new feature allows you to quickly access and search BLAST databases for the genome of an organism of interest.

  • Next NCBI webinar on November 5th

    Oct 23, 2014

    On November 5th, NCBI will have a webinar entitled “Exploring and Downloading Sequences and Annotations for Genomes and Metagenomes at the NCBI”. This presentation will introduce you to how NCBI processes genome-level data and produces annotation through the prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome annotation pipelines and show you how to access and download these data from the NCBI site.

  • GenBank release 204.0 is now available via FTP

    Oct 22, 2014

    Release 204.0 (10/20/2014) has 178,322,253 non-WGS, non-CON records containing 181,563,676,918 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 196,049,974 WGS records containing 805,549,167,708 base pairs of sequence data.

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