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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/

This is an extract of taxdump-readme.txt to be found at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/

Research repository launches comment platform for post-publication peer review

How to download FASTA sequence for certain gene features while in the NCBI's Sequence Viewer. Sequence Viewer homepage: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/sviewer/ Sequence Viewer playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76D7EE6A6A8AC1C3

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - This histone database can be used to explore the diversity of histone proteins and their sequence variants in many organisms. The resource was established to better understand how sequence variation may affect functional and structural features of...

A new “Download assemblies” button is now available in the Assembly database. This makes it easy to download data for multiple genomes without having to write scripts.

NCBI Hackathon are pleased to announce the second installment of the SoCal Bioinformatics Hackathon. From January 9-11, 2019, the NCBI will help run a bioinformatics hackathon in Southern California hosted by the Computational Sciences Research...