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  • A Modern ClinicalTrials.gov Website

    Jun 25, 2024

    Classic website no longer available effective June 25, 2024  We appreciate all the feedback received since the launch of the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov website in June 2023, and we’ve incorporated many of your suggestions. As announced last month, the classic website has remained available to help you transition to the modernized website. Effective today, the classic … Continue reading A Modern ClinicalTrials.gov Website

  • GenBank Release 261.0 is Available!

    Jun 20, 2024

    GenBank release 261.0 (6/18/2024) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 32.04 trillion bases and 4.51 billion records.  The current release has: 251,094,334 traditional records containing 3,387,240,663,231 base pairs of sequence data 3,380,877,515 WGS records containing 27,900,199,328.,333 base pairs of sequence data 746,753,803 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 695,405,769,319 base pairs of … Continue reading GenBank Release 261.0 is Available!

  • Upcoming Changes to NCBI Taxonomy Classifications

    Jun 4, 2024

    NCBI is continually making improvements to our Taxonomy resource in response to new data and changes in biological nomenclature and classification. In the coming months, we will update the higher-level classification of birds (Aves), budding yeasts (Saccharomycotina), prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea) and Viruses. This update will also change the formal ranks of several high-level taxonomic … Continue reading Upcoming Changes to NCBI Taxonomy Classifications

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