From Genes to Genomes – New Features and Data Access

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides several resources to facilitate access to genomes and their annotations. These resources provide a stable identifier and meta-data for assembled genomes (Assembly), a portal to browse available genome-scale data (Genome), gene-specific report pages that include an interactive genome browser (Gene), and comprehensive access to genomes and annotation data via file transfer protocol (FTP).  This presentation will highlight recent changes to these resources including updates to NCBI’s Gene resource which now provides an option to view both current and previous genome annotation for a locus and to view sample-specific RNAseq alignment histograms. This presentation will provide an overview of resource updates with examples illustrating how to access new information content.