NLM Announcements

Focus on NLM Scientists: Kim Pruitt Has Built a Career on Passion and Persistence

10/04/2016 03:00 PM EDT

In this new column, we’ll introduce you to some of the scientists at the National Library of Medicine. We’ll start with Kim Pruitt, PhD, staff scientist at NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) since 1998. Her program, the Reference Sequence Database, better known as RefSeq, has grown from an initial public release of 3,439…

CCDS release 20 for human now public in Gene

10/04/2016 12:14 PM EDT

Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) release 20 compares NCBI's Homo sapiens annotation release 108 to Ensembl's release 85, and is now available in Gene. This update adds 1,158 new CCDS IDs and 98 genes into the human CCDS set. CCDS release 20 includes a total of 32,524 CCDS IDs that correspond to 18,892 GeneIDs.

Celebrating American Archives Month

10/04/2016 11:00 AM EDT

By Rebecca C. Warlow Here at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and at archives across the country, we are spending October celebrating the unique and interesting collections to be found in archives. Archives are collections of documents and records, in varying formats including hand-written papers, images, audiovisuals, databases and others, that are kept for […]