NCBI Will Retire rsync Support for FTP Downloads on June 1, 2026  - NCBI Insights To ensure the security and long-term stability of our data delivery infrastructure, NCBI will discontinue support for the rsync protocol on June 1, 2026. After June 1, attempts to connect to ftp.ncbi....

From #NCBI Insights | NCBI Will Retire rsync Support for FTP Downloads on June 1, 2026 |  
Oh well, rsync, FTP's smarter, older sibling is heading into retirement!
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Changes Coming to NCBI Taxonomy: Try the New Browser - NCBI Insights We invite you to try the redesigned NCBI Taxonomy Browser, developed with input from our user community. In Summer 2026, the legacy Taxonomy Browser will redirect to the new browser in NCBI Datasets. ...

From #NCBI Insight | NCBI's new #Taxonomy browser | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪  #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #Genomics
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Nice, I like the page for my friendly #Saccharomyces #cerevisiae
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CC/ @yeastgenome.bsky.social

MANE v1.5 Released! - NCBI Insights A new version (v1.5) of Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) is now available. This dataset, produced in collaboration between NCBI and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European...

From #NCBI Insight | A new version (v1.5) of Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #human #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 CC/ @ebi.embl.org
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The "Credits and Acknowledgments" section that is present in the gbrel.txt file included with GenBank release 270.

From #NCBI Insight | #GenBank Release 270 is here | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 | Thank you to the NCBI staff at the NIH that allows science to move forward! The attached image is from the gbrel.txt file on the FTP server.
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Excited to share that Terence Murphy’s team ( #NCBI , #NIH) will join our 2026 Genome Assembly & Annotation course, alongside a fantastic lineup of invited speakers for our hands-on, high-level #genomics training.

Few seats still available: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Now Available: RefSeq Release 233 - NCBI Insights RefSeq release 233 is now available online and from the FTP site! You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as div...

#NCBI has released ver 233 of #RefSeq which includes 442,943,508 proteins, 76,278,418 RNAs, and sequences from 174,157 organisms. One is the Rhesus macaque T2T assembly | #OpenScience #OpenData #Genomics #Proteomics #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Ten quick tips for using the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource

From @lrasmus.bsky.social, @kristiholmes.bsky.social et al. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten quick tips for using the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource | #Bioinformatics #Education #Genomics #PLOSCBQT #NCBI 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social
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NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week! - NCBI Insights Providing free and open access to scientific literature and data   Do you love biomolecular data as much as we do? Join NCBI in celebrating International Love Data Week, February 9-13, 2026! Love Data...

From #NCBI Insight | NCBI Celebrates International Love Data Week! | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Proteomics #OpenData #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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NCBI submission to SRA via ASPERA is unusable. This is super embarrassing for NCBI. I've been a LINUX user for over twenty years and the instructions are confusing and don't work. It shouldn't be this hard. #NCBI #SRA #ASPERA

Today's job required colecting and combining info from @ebi.embl.org, #KEGG and #NCBI. Integrating with #bioinformatics tools in #Rstats and @bioconductor.bsky.social
These biological data resources and tools must surely be amongst the greatest achievements of modern science.

BankIt Submitters: Upcoming Changes to How You Submit to GenBank - NCBI Insights Are you a GenBank submitter? Do you use BankIt or the GenBank app in the NCBI Submission Portal to submit your sequences? Or do you split your data between the two systems?    Starting this spring, yo...

From #NCBI Insight | Starting this spring, you will be able to complete all #GenBank submissions in the "Submission Portal GenBank". It will support data types that you currently submit through BankIt | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience
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An Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is Available! - NCBI Insights Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection! We built this collection of 22,307 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 450,000+ prokaryo...

From #NCBI Insight | Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is now available | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Hivemind: has anyone had a response from #NCBI about submissions started prior to the government shutdown?

Database and visual application for exploring relations between human #nutrition and living organisms.

It harmonizes data from #NCBI , #FAO , #OSAV , #Wikimedia and #iNaturalist .

Contact me for collaboration on further development or integration of OuroborosTree in your project.

GenBank Release 269.0 - NCBI Insights GenBank release 269.0 (12/16/2025) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 49.73 trillion bases and 6.03 billion records. The current release has:  259,677,058 traditional records cont...

From #NCBI Insight | GenBank Release 269.0 is now available | This release has 49.73 trillion bases and 6.03 billion records |
#Bioinformatics #OpenScience #OpenData | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2026 Abstract. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides biomedical data resources including PubMed®, a repository of citations and abst

From Kim Pruitt & team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #Proteomics #Genomics #Education #Research #OpenData #OpenSource #NCBI 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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Publication accepted!! so releasing the scripts deposited on @github.com, the raw data from #NCBI... Happy day, @zooplanktomics.bsky.social!!

Who do we have to lobby to be able to submit pod5 files from @nanoporetech.com to SRA? The actual only way is to use guppy-4.2.2 basecalling fast5 files and that makes very little sense and it is very unpractical! #sequencing #ONT #SRA #NCBI #reproducibility #OpenScience

For the sake of the entire #biology 🧪🧬🦠🧫🔬💊and #medsky science 🩺community, I think @enasequence.bsky.social and the #bioinformatics community needs to prioritise development of new tools and functionality in-line with #NCBI and #Genbank, before it potentially goes down sometime in the near future.

🗣️ We are looking forward to hosting Dr. Eugene V. Koonin, #NCBI #NIH, USA, with an invited lecture "The world of viruses and its evolution" in two weeks' time ► www.uochb.cz/en/event-cal...

#IOCBInvitedLecture #praguelectures

The shutdown of the US federal government has this expected effect on #biomedical #science:

#HHS #NIH #NLM #NCBI #PubMed

#NSF #CDC #FDA

#SUFS

#genetics
#biochemistry
#molbio
#biology
#drosophila

Using public #DNAmethylation data from #NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), we found that #IVF placentas have different DNA methylation patterns compared to spontaneously conceived placentas. 🧬

#CHATGPT #AI and #NCBI help again.

I am planning a less expensive combo than GLP 1 shots. between specific foods, metformin, intermittent fasting eventually and slowly exercising more I can help my health tremendously as someone with early insulin resistance.

#PromptSkills are just beginning.

An Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is Available! - NCBI Insights Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection! We built this collection of 22,082 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 440,000+ prokaryo...

From #NCBI Insight | Updated #Bacterial & #Archaeal Reference #Genome Collection Available from NCBI | #OpenScience
#OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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GenBank Release 268.0 is Available! - NCBI Insights GenBank release 268.0 (8/18/2025) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 47.01 trillion bases and 5.90 billion records. The current release has:  258,320,620 traditional records conta...

From #NCBI Insight | #GenBank Release 268.0 | 258,320,620 traditional records containing 5,676,067,778,413 base pairs of sequence data | #OpenScience #OpenData #Bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Upcoming Changes to GenBank Project Lists and Symlinks - NCBI Insights The volume of GenBank WGS, TSA, and TLS data sets is large and continues to grow rapidly. To help you identify and retrieve newly released data, we began providing symlinks and project list files in t...

From #NCBI Insight | Upcoming Changes to #GenBank Project Lists and Symlinks | #OpenScience #OpenData #Bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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PubMed Central (PMC) Beta Search to Replace Current Search - NCBI Insights Coming the week of September 7th   The new PubMed Central (PMC) Beta search will replace the current PMC search the week of September 7, 2025.   As previously announced, the National Library of Medici...

From #NCBI Insight | #PubMed Central (PMC) Beta Search to Replace Current Search | #OpenScience #OpenAccess 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Is anyone else having problems with #NCBI Datasets today? It's completely broken for me on both macOS and Windows.

From #NCBI Insight | New Ranks in NCBI Taxonomy: Domain & Realm | #OpenScience #OpenData #bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Message from NCBI reading Maintenance in progress The page you are trying to reach is currently unavailable due to planned maintenance. Most services will be unavailable for 24+ hours starting 9 PM EDT on Friday, July 25, 2025.

What do you mean go outside & play??? I had papers to read 🥲
#ncbi #maintenance #downtime