NCBI to assist in Virus Hunting Data Science Hackathon January 9-11, 2019 | NCBI Insights

NCBI to assist in Virus Hunting Data Science Hackathon January 9-11, 2019 | NCBI Insights

NCBI to assist in Virus Hunting Data Science Hackathon January 9-11, 2019

11/09/2018 03:21 PM EST

We are pleased to announce the second installment of the SoCal Bioinformatics Hackathon. From January 9-11, 2019, the NCBI will help run a bioinformatics hackathon in Southern California hosted by the Computational Sciences Research Center at San Diego State University! … Continue reading →

October 2018 RefSeq annotations include honey bee, butterfly & more

11/09/2018 01:00 PM EST

In October, the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline released new annotations in RefSeq for the following organisms: Apis mellifera (honey bee) Athene cunicularia (burrowing owl) Ceratina calcarata (bee) Ciona intestinalis (vase tunicate) Ctenocephalides felis (cat flea) Diaphorina citri (Asian citrus psyllid) Galleria mellonella (greater … Continue reading →

One Medical Officer’s Armistice Day

11/09/2018 11:00 AM EST

By Susan L. Speaker ~ The newspaper headlines on November 11, 1918 were exultant: after more than four long years, the Great War was over!

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