China’s BGI says it can sequence a genome for just $100
Using technology originally acquired in the US, the Chinese gene giant BGI Group says it will make genome sequencing cheaper than ever, breaking the $100 barrier for the first time. The Shenzhen c...1584 days ago
Submit your SARS-CoV-2 sequence data to GenBank
Submit your SARS-CoV-2 sequence data to GenBank and SRA with our new submission landing page. Submission is simple and streamlined *and* there’s a rapid turnarou...1543 days ago
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Blast on Docker, Google Cloud, Amazon Cloud
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-lo...1453 days ago
DBT BIOTECHNOLOGY ELIGIBILITY TEST (BET) 2020
Ministry of Science &Technology, Govt. of India DBT-J...so eligible to apply. Marks: Minimum 60% marks for General, EWS & OBC category an...pto 28 years as on the last date of application for General & EWS category. Age re...1410 days ago
The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers !
The pandemic has worsened the plight of postdoctoral researchers. Funders need to be offering more than moral support. Nature conducted a poll ran in June and Ju...1389 days ago
IgBLAST 1.17 is now available with improved identification of productive V gene sequences
A new release of IgBLAST (1.17), the popular pac...dated package is better at identifying productive V gene sequences. We added a new fie...o;, to the IgBLAST output to indicate whether the V gene translation frame contains a...1337 days ago
BLAST+ 2.11.0 release is now available on FTP site !
BLAST+ 2.11.0 release is now available from our FTP site. The main advance is the ability to provide usage reports to NCBI to help us improve BLAST. This information i...1324 days ago
NCBI BLAST have added new columns to the Descriptions
NCBI BLAST have added new columns to the Descriptions Table for web BLAST output. The new columns are Scientific Name, Common Name, Taxid, and Accession Length....1308 days ago
Cleaner BLAST Databases for More Accurate Results
Do you use BLAST to identify a sequence or the evolutionary scope of a gene? That can be challenging if c...69 days ago