{"id":14373,"date":"2025-01-14T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:40:55","slug":"updated-bacterial-and-archaeal-reference-genome-collection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2025\/01\/14\/updated-bacterial-and-archaeal-reference-genome-collection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection is available!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection<\/a>! We built this collection of 21,258 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 400,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq<\/a>.<\/p>\n As previously announced<\/a>, we updated our release process:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can speed up your BLAST sequence searches by running them against these high-quality genomes instead of all of core_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 info@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 21,258 genomes by selecting the “best” genome assembly for each species among the 400,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq. What’s new? As previously announced, we updated our release process: There is now an incremental process. In addition to quarterly releases, there will … Continue reading An updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection is available!<\/span> What’s new?<\/h4>\n
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