The BLAST programs and databases are available in Docker and cloud-ready | NCBI Insights

The BLAST programs and databases are available in Docker and cloud-ready | NCBI Insights

Publication on NCBI’s web-based structure viewer iCn3D

07/16/2019 05:14 PM EDT

A recent article by Wang J., et al. describes the features and applications of iCn3D, NCBI’s web-based 3D viewer (Figure 1), and shows how you can use it for interactive structural analysis. Wang J, Youkharibache P, Zhang D, Lanczycki CJ, Geer RC, … Continue reading →

The Significance of Network Biology

07/16/2019 04:00 PM EDT

Guest post by Teresa Przytycka, PhD, Senior Investigator, Computational and Systems Biology section of the Computational Biology Branch at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. The functioning of any complex system involves interactions between elements of that system. This is true at the cellular level, the macro … Continue reading "The Significance of Network Biology"

The BLAST programs and databases are available in Docker and cloud-ready

07/16/2019 02:34 PM EDT

In modern biomedical research, you often need to analyze very large datasets. This may require computing and storage capacity that exceeds what you have available locally. Working in a cloud environment where you can provision nearly limitless computing power, gain … Continue reading →