Variation feature changes in NCBI Reference Sequences coming in 2018 | NCBI Insights

Variation feature changes in NCBI Reference Sequences coming in 2018 | NCBI Insights

Variation feature changes in NCBI Reference Sequences coming in 2018

10/27/2017 01:13 PM EDT

Starting in March 2018, SNP variation features will no longer be in RefSeq genome assembly records – chromosome and contig records with NC_, NT_, NW_ and AC_ accession prefixes. This change affects both the ASN.1 and flatfile records. Because the … Continue reading →

BLAST+ 2.7.1 now available

10/27/2017 10:58 AM EDT

In the new version (2.7.1) of the BLAST+ executables, blastdbcmd can look up taxonomic names (e.g., scientific or common name) faster. We have also made some low-level improvement that allow BLAST to multithread more efficiently, especially when available memory is … Continue reading →