Goodbye Assembly and Genome, hello NCBI Datasets!
Exciting news! NCBI has streamlined and modernized how you access and download genome, taxonomy, and gene information with NCBI Datasets. As previously announced, NCBI Datasets is replacing the legacy Genome and Assembly resources providing you a single entry point to genome datasets. Effective today, the legacy pages are retired and no longer available.
Please note there will be no changes to how you programmatically access the databases using E-Utilities or EDirect.
Features & Benefits of NCBI Datasets
- Comprehensive Data: Access assembled genome sequences, annotations, and metadata, including transcripts and proteins from a single webpage
- Tabular Displays: Easy and intuitive filtering and download options (no need to understand complex Entrez queries).
- Smart Searching: Easily retrieve data using organism names, assembly, WGS, or BioProject accessions.
- Robust Support for Searching by Taxon Name: e.g., Salmonella, Mammals, Mus musculus — this is the best way to start your search!
- Scalable Data Retrieval: Request data for multiple genomes and file types in a single request, simplifying and expediting the download of large datasets.
- Well-Documented Metadata: Metadata is sourced from multiple databases, and metadata schemas are thoroughly documented.
- Interoperable metadata formats: Metadata formats are machine-readable and easily converted to human-readable forms.
- Taxonomy-Focused Portal: Access genes, genomes, and other NCBI resources through a taxonomy-focused portal.
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NCBI Datasets is part of the NIH Comparative Genomics Resource (CGR). CGR facilitates reliable comparative genomics analyses for all eukaryotic organisms through an NCBI Toolkit and community collaboration.
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We want to hear from you!
We are very excited about these enhancements and welcome your feedback as we continue to improve and transition to our new record pages! Feel free to email us at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov with questions or feedback.