NLM Announcements

New on NCBI Insights: Converting GI Numbers to Accession.version

12/06/2016 02:34 PM EST

The latest blog post on NCBI Insights shows users how to convert GI numbers to accession.version with EFetch.

A Nurse’s Scrapbook from The Great War

12/06/2016 02:00 PM EST

By Stephen J. Greenberg Anniversaries can be funny things. As we observe (“celebrate” somehow seems wrong in the context) the 100th anniversary of the First World War, it’s not always easy to pick a precise date to mark. What day, exactly, did the war begin? Was it June 28, 1914, the day the Archduke Franz […]

Converting GI Numbers to Accession.version

12/06/2016 01:40 PM EST

As you may have read in previous posts, NCBI is in the process of changing the way we handle GI numbers for sequence records. In short, we are moving to a time when accession.version identifiers, rather than GI numbers, will … Continue reading →

Musings on the Mezzanine

12/06/2016 10:10 AM EST

The history of this soaring space