Accessing NCBI data using the NCBI Sequence Viewer and Genome Data Viewer (GDV)

  1. Valerie A. Schneider
  1. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA

  • ↵1 Present address: Data Sciences Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

  • Corresponding author: sanjida.rangwala{at}nih.gov

    • Abstract

    The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is an archive providing free access to a wide range and large volume of biological sequence data and literature. Staff scientists at NCBI analyze user-submitted data in the archive, producing gene and SNP annotation and generating sequence alignment tools. NCBI's flagship genome browser, Genome Data Viewer (GDV), displays our in-house RefSeq annotation; is integrated with other NCBI resources such as Gene, dbGaP, and BLAST; and provides a platform for customized analysis and visualization. Here, we describe how members of the biomedical research community can use GDV and the related NCBI Sequence Viewer (SV) to access, analyze, and disseminate NCBI and custom biomedical sequence data. In addition, we report how users can add SV to their own web pages to create a custom graphical sequence display without the need for infrastructure investments or back-end deployments.

    Footnotes

    • Received July 15, 2020.
    • Accepted November 23, 2020.

    This is a work of the US Government.

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    1. Published in Advance November 25, 2020, doi: 10.1101/gr.266932.120 Genome Res. 31: 159-169 Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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