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  • NCBI Discovery Workshop: A Practical Hands-On Course

    24 Jan 2012

    February 21-22, 2012 @ the NIH: Space is still available in the 2-day Discovery Workshop covering practical aspects of using NCBI molecular biology databases and tools.

  • New NCBI Newsletter

    01 Dec 2011

    Information on the new Genome Site, a new 16S BLAST database, updates to Sequin, changes in EUtilities, new PheGenI and Highlight Sequence Features tools, BLAST videos on the YouTube Channel, and more....

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