Next Wednesday, February 22, 2017, NCBI will present a webinar on the Multiple Sequence Viewer (MSAV). In this webinar, you will learn how to display alignment data from many sources, including NCBI BLAST results, as well as precomputed multiple alignments of your own data. You will also see how to embed the viewer in your own web pages or share a link to a particular alignment display.

Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/7663489773270563843

The SmartBLAST service has recently been updated to emphasize matches to the landmark database, which comprises the proteomes from 26 well-curated genomic assemblies. The display also now presents more information about conserved domains and details about the query. SmartBLAST quickly finds the closest relatives to a protein query and evaluates the phylogenetic relationship among the query and matched sequences. You can start a SmartBLAST search from the SmartBLAST page or the BLAST home page. Read more about SmartBLAST on NCBI Insights.

http://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/smartblast-updated-t…

The SmartBLAST service has recently been updated to emphasize matches to the landmark database, which comprises the proteomes from 26 well-curated genomic assemblies. The display also now presents more information about conserved domains and details about the query. You can start a SmartBLAST search from the SmartBLAST page (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/smartblast/) or the BLAST home page.

Sequence Viewer 3.19 has several new features, improvements and bug fixes to the graphical viewer, including a new aggregate track type, improved display of projected features and cleaned alignments, and a new manual for using embedded API. For a full list of changes, see the Sequence Viewer release notes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/sviewer/release-notes/.

We're introducing a new set of web services for comparing & grouping variants! Read more on NCBI Insights:

http://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/new-web-services-for…

Don’t forget to sign up for the next NCBI Minute, where we’ll show you how to ID & correlate various names used for genes, proteins & chemicals https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/6498213056303481858

Are you a student, postdoc, researcher or investigator already engaged in the use of genomics data or pipelines for genomic analyses from next generation sequencing data?

Join us for a hackathon on the NIH campus: https://goo.gl/forms/T7I3oKKfPpctiioD2

More info on NCBI News: http://go.usa.gov/x9Hh7

The new version of the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer (MSA Viewer) has implemented a new coloration method and improved tooltips.

A full list of new features, improvements, and bug fixes is available in the MSA Viewer release notes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/msaviewer/release-notes/

Next Wednesday, February 8, NCBI will discuss the systems in the NCBI Gene and PubChem resources that identify and correlate various names used for genes, proteins and chemicals. Sign up here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/6498213056303481858

Don’t forget to sign up for Tuesday’s #NCBIMinute, where we’ll give a tour of the recently updated E-utilities https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/7530877675754064131

BLAST+ 2.6.0 offers improved support for accession.version for use of accession.version as the primary identifier, as well as improved speed of blastdbcmd when dumping information from a database. BLAST+ 2.6.0 is available on FTP: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/LATEST

A number of other bug fixes and improvements are also included in this release. For more information about BLAST+ 2.6.0, please see the release notes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK131777/.

From NCBI Insights: Visualize & Interpret Alignment Data with the Multiple Sequence Alignment Viewer

http://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/visualize-and-interp…

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. https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/7530877675754064131
Date and time: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EST

RefSeq Release 80 is now available on the FTP site, online and through NCBI’s E-utilities. For more details about RefSeq release 80, please see the latest story on NCBI News: http://go.usa.gov/x9yc6

Please note that GI sequence identifiers will be removed from flat file and FASTA formats in the March 2017 RefSeq FTP release.

Also, RefSeq plans to start a comprehensive reannotation of all prokaryotic genomes in a few weeks, which will be included in its entirety in the May 2017 release.