Aug 8 NCBI Minute: Hey Professors! Get your free personal assistant – an NCBI Account! | NCBI Insights

Aug 8 NCBI Minute: Hey Professors! Get your free personal assistant – an NCBI Account! | NCBI Insights

Aug 8 NCBI Minute: Hey Professors! Get your free personal assistant – an NCBI Account!

08/01/2018 04:55 PM EDT

Next Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018, NCBI staff will show you how to use an NCBI account to help with research and teaching tasks including: Making custom collections of important records for use in coursework and research projects Creating lists of … Continue reading →

New International Protein Naming Guidelines promote clarity and consistency

08/01/2018 10:47 AM EDT

Consistent protein nomenclature is indispensable for communication, literature searching and entry retrieval. NCBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB) revised and reorganized previous guidelines from UniProt and NCBI. This … Continue reading →

From Jumping Ants to Water Buffalo

08/01/2018 10:30 AM EDT

It’s never dull in the RefSeq world. Whenever we check in to see what’s new in NCBI’s Reference Sequence Database (RefSeq), we’re always surprised. In releasing genome annotations, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) makes it possible for researchers and scientists all over the world to download more genetic information than ever before about…