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Presented July 30, 2014 and covering: an NCBI BLAST AMI at Amazon Web Services; introduction to AWS and setting up an instance; running command line BLAST and using the BLAST URL API via the AMI; and answers to attendee questions.

NCBI new updates !

dunbrack.fccc.edu - BioDownloader is a program for downloading and/or updating files from ftp/http servers. The program has unique features that are specifically designed to deal with bioinformatics data files and servers: optimized to work with vast amount of data...

ncbi.github.io - Magic-BLAST is a tool for mapping large next-generation RNA or DNA sequencing runs against a whole genome or transcriptome. Each alignment optimizes a composite score, taking into account simultaneously the two reads of a pair, and in case of...

As announced in a previous post, we offer a Docker version of NCBI BLAST+ that you can use locally or on the Google Cloud where we have pre-loaded BLAST databases. We are happy to announce that the same functionality is now available on the...

https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2024/07/15/refseq-release-225/

The year 2024 has been marked by remarkable scientific advancements across various disciplines, each contributing to a deeper understanding of our universe, our planet, and ourselves. Here are ten of the most intriguing breakthroughs that have...

Newly Found Pandoraviruses Hint at a Fourth Branch of Life

github.com - This repository contains the scripts and pipeline that reproduces the results of the HCMV benchmarking study. In this study we evaluated genome assemblers and variant callers on 10 in vitro generated, mixed strain HCMV sequence samples, each...

Here is a list of mosquito species known for transmitting the Dengue virus along with essential and applied information about each species: