Jan 28, 2021

Since October, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released new annotations in RefSeq for a large number of organisms. We’ve separated them by group; click on “details” to see the full list for each. Mammals Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat) Arvicola amphibius (Eurasian water vole) Balaenoptera musculus (Blue whale) Cebus imitator (Panamanian white-faced capuchin) Chlorocebus sabaeus … Continue reading October-December eukaryotic genome annotations in Refseq →

Jan 25, 2021

The Pathogen Detection project now offers the Microbial Browser for Identification of Genetic and Genomic Elements (MicroBIGG-E) that lets you browse anti-microbial resistance (AMR), stress response,  virulence genes and genomic elements found in GenBank published isolate genomes from the NCBI Isolates Browser.  Unlike the  Isolates Browser that provides only a strain-level view of both published … Continue reading Introducing MicroBIGG-E, a browser for microbial AMR genes and other stress and resistance elements →

Jan 22, 2021

We are excited to announce the NCBI Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA) Release 2 (version 20201027095038) as one of the largest and most comprehensive aggregated variant datasets with allele frequency available as open-access. This release contains 79 dbGaP studies that included 192 thousand subjects and 5.8 trillion combined genotypes that generated allele frequency for 904 million … Continue reading Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA) Release 2 is available! →