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New NCBI Insights blog post: Designing exon-specific primers for the human genome
Dec 2, 2014

The latest blog post on NCBI Insights shows you how to use NCBI Reference Sequences and Primer-BLAST, NCBI's primer designer and specificity checker, to design a pair of primers that will amplify a single exon, using the human breast cancer 1 gene (BRCA1) as an example.
NCBI to hold two-day genomics hackathon in January
Nov 26, 2014

From January 5th to 7th, NCBI will host a genomics hackathon focusing on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data. This event is for students, postdocs and investigators already engaged in the use of pipelines for genomic analyses from next generation sequencing data. Working groups of 5-6 individuals will be formed for DNA-Seq/multiomics, RNA-seq, metagenomics and Epigenomics. These groups will build pipelines to analyze large datasets within a cloud infrastructure.
NCBI BioSample includes curated list of over 400 known misidentified and contaminated cell lines
Nov 24, 2014

The NCBI BioSample database now includes a curated list of over 400 known misidentified and contaminated cell lines. Scientists should check this list before they start working with a new cell line to see if that cell line is known to be misidentified.

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