Oct 3, 2014

dbVar, NCBI's database of genomic structural variation, now accepts submissions in the Variant Call Format (VCF) in addition to their other standard formats: Excel, Tab, and XML. Instructions for submitting in VCF can be found on the dbVar Home, Submission Guidelines, and Submission Templates pages.

Oct 2, 2014

The latest blog post on NCBI Insights, “NCBI’s 3 Newest Medical Genetics Resources: GTR, MedGen and ClinVar”, gives an overview of NCBI’s three medical genetics resources and outlines their content features. A more in-depth introduction is available in the Medical Genetics Resources webinar from June 2014.

Oct 1, 2014

On October 15th, NCBI will have a webinar entitled “An Introduction to NCBI’s E-Utilities, an NCBI API.” E-Utilities is a tool to assist programmers in accessing, searching and retrieving a wide variety of data from NCBI servers.