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January 31st NCBI Minute: New version of E-utilities supports accession.version
Jan 23, 2017

Next Tuesday, January 31, 2017, NCBI will present a short webinar that describes and demonstrates new functionality recently introduced to the E-utilities that supports sequence data retrieval.
RefSeq release 80 now available; GI identifiers to be removed in next release (March 2017)
Jan 13, 2017

RefSeq release 80 is now accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI's programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of January 9, 2017 and contains 118,059,547 records, including 78,028,152 proteins, 17,862,608 RNAs, and sequences from 66,224 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings.
New videos on YouTube: Clone DB and clone placements
Jan 13, 2017

Two new videos on the NCBI YouTube channel demonstrate how to use Clone DB and clone placements to assess and improve genome assemblies.

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