Entrez Direct: E-utilities on the UNIX Command Line
Entrez Direct (EDirect) is an advanced method for accessing the NCBI's suite of interconnected databases (publication, sequence, structure, gene, variation, expression, etc.) from a UNIX terminal window. Functions take search terms from command-line arguments. Individual operations are combined t...Tags: Bioinformatics, Entrez Direct, EDirect, NCBI, Databases, Functions, EDirect, XML, Format, Queries, EDirect, UNIX, Entrez.
2747 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 contaminated and misclassified sequences are in the BLAST databases and show up in your search results. To address this problem, we now use the NCBI quality assurance tools liste...Tags: Cleaner, BLAST, Databases, Accurate, Results
4 days ago
Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators
There was great interest in the databases of standardized citation metrics across all scientists and scientific disciplines [1], and many scientists urged us to provide updates of the databases. Accordingly, we have provided updated analyses that use citations from Scopus with data freeze as of M...Tags: Updated, science-wide, author, databases, standardized, citation, indicators, 2%, scientist
1258 days ago
The Breeding API (BrAPI) project
The Breeding API (BrAPI) project is an effort to enable interoperability among plant breeding databases. BrAPI is a standardized RESTful web service API specification for communicating plant breeding data. This community driven standard is free to be used by anyone interested in plant breeding da...Tags: Breeding, API, BrAPI, project, plant, databases
1207 days ago
Tags: 16S, rRNA, databases, bioinformatics, analyses, microbiome, research
3 days ago