{"id":13949,"date":"2024-09-19T11:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=13949"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:01:45","slug":"updated-bacterial-archaeal-reference-genome-collection-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/09\/19\/updated-bacterial-archaeal-reference-genome-collection-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection now Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection<\/a>! We built this collection of 20,403 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 350,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq<\/a> (except for E. coli for which two assemblies were selected as reference). Changes have been made to the selection criteria including upgrades for type and complete assemblies resulting in a much larger set of changes as compared to previous updates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can speed up your sequence searches by running them against these high-quality genomes instead of all of NT or NR. We updated the Nucleotide BLAST RefSeq reference genomes database<\/a> (fourth in the menu) as well as the database on the Microbial Nucleotide BLAST page<\/a> with this updated collection. You can also run BLAST searches against the proteins annotated on these reference genomes<\/a> (second in the menu).<\/p>\n The criteria for selecting “the” reference assembly for a given species, within all assemblies available in RefSeq for this species, include assembly contiguity and completeness, and quality of the RefSeq annotation. See the documentation<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n Follow us on social\u202f<\/span>@NCBI<\/span><\/a>\u202fand\u202f<\/span>join our mailing list<\/span><\/a>\u202fto keep up to date with our reference genome collection\u202fand other NCBI news.\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you have questions or would like to provide feedback, please reach out to us at\u00a0info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection! We built this collection of 20,403 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 350,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq (except for E. coli for which two assemblies were selected as reference). Changes have been made to the selection criteria including upgrades for … Continue reading Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection now Available!<\/span> What’s New?<\/h5>\n
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