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Proteins
Protein sequences, 3-D structures, and tools for the study of functional protein domains and active sites
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Protein sequences
Models representing homologous proteins with a common function
Experimentally-determined biomolecular structures
BLAST
A tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences
Search nucleotide sequence databases
Search protein sequence databases
Search protein databases using a translated nucleotide query
Search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query
Find primers specific to your PCR template
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Genome sequence assemblies, large-scale functional genomics data, and source biological samples
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News
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Study Reveals a Cell-Eat-Cell World
From normal vertebrate development to tumor cell cannibalism, cell-in-cell events occur in many different contexts across the tree of life
Researchers Bioengin-Ear Tissue Scaffolds to Human Scale
A new approach to sculpting human-like ears merges 3D printing, xenografts, and tissue engineering.
Do cats experience grief? New research suggests they might
Researchers from Oakland University surveyed hundreds of cat caregivers and found that cats exhibited behaviors associated with grief after a fellow cat or dog in the household died.
Recent blog posts
Try Out a Development Version of NCBI’s Publicly Available Annotation Tool, EGAPx
Latest release now available Are you generating genomes for vertebrates, arthropods, or plants, and looking for a way to generate high-quality genome annotation? NCBI is working on a public version of the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (EGAPx), and the latest developmental release is now available for testing and feedback. What’s new? Improved Gene Annotation: … Continue reading Try Out a Development Version of NCBI’s Publicly Available Annotation Tool, EGAPx
Discovery of Culprit Behind Scars in Heart Failure Points to Possible Treatment Target
More than 6 million adults in the U.S. have heart failure, a condition that develops when the heart can’t pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body. While lifestyle changes and treatment can slow heart failure, there’s no cure. One reason is that heart failure and other heart conditions including heart attacks lead heart muscle to become thickened and scarred in a process known as fibrosis. Effective strategies to reverse or stop fibrosis in the heart or other organs after injury, as is needed for recovery, have remained elusive. Now, a new NIH-supported study offers a step forward in better understanding what happens in human heart failure. These findings, reported in Nature, identify a cell type that may be a main culprit in the formation of scar tissue after heart injury. What’s even more encouraging is that the study, which included mouse models, suggests that existing treatments that block communication between the immune system and the scar-forming cells may hold promise for limiting fibrosis to improve heart function.
RefSeq Release 227 is Available!
Check out RefSeq release 227, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings. What’s included in this release? As of November 4, 2024, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing: … Continue reading RefSeq Release 227 is Available!