Pangenome metadata scopeathon in San Diego, January 16-17 | NCBI Insights

Pangenome metadata scopeathon in San Diego, January 16-17 | NCBI Insights

Pangenome metadata scopeathon in San Diego, January 16-17

11/19/2019 04:09 PM EST

We will help run a scopeathon (January 16-17, 2020). This event focuses on planning and designing software to extract value from organismal and genera-level graph genomes by dynamically labeling with metadata. We’re seeking people who are interested in describing community level … Continue reading →

How NIH Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Operations

11/19/2019 04:00 PM EST

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, from the online marketplace to the laboratory! When you read an article or shop online, the experience is probably supported by AI. And scientists are applying AI methods to find indications of disease, to design experiments, and to make discovery processes more efficient. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has … Continue reading "How NIH Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Improve Operations"

NCBI Will Retire the Probe Database in April 2020

11/19/2019 01:50 PM EST

NCBI released the Probe database in 2005 as a registry of nucleic acid reagents for biomedical research. At that time array-based assays were prevalent, but have since declined with the advent of short read sequencing. As a result, NCBI will … Continue reading →