Are you trying to keep up with the rapidly growing number of biological resources associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the related disease, COVID-19? There’s a new page to help you find SARS-CoV-2-related content available at NCBI (Figure1). This new site will help bench scientists, bioinformaticians, clinicians, and others connect with the information they need to study SARS-CoV-2 and end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Figure 1. The new SARS-CoV-2 resources page providing access to data submissions, literature, molecular information, and clinical resources.
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Streamlined submission of SARS-CoV-2 data with rapid turnaround
Figure 1. The SARS-CoV-2 submission landing page, where you can submit to GenBank or SRA. You can also view other resources related to SARS-CoV-2.
Quickly and easily add your SARS-CoV-2 sequence data to the growing public archive with new, special features and support from NCBI. Our new SARS-CoV-2 sequence submission landing page will help you get started. GenBank submissions are accessioned and released in approximately 1-2 working days, and Sequence Read Archive (SRA) submissions typically processed and released within hours. Submission is simple!
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CORD-19: A New Machine Readable COVID-19 Literature Dataset
Are you interested in mining literature about COVID-19 and the novel SARS-Cov-2 virus? You may want to check out the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a collection of more than 13,000 full text articles that focus on COVID-19 and coronaviruses and that were assembled from PMC, the WHO, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. To produce this dataset, the National Library of Medicine partnered with colleagues from the Allen Institute for AI, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Kaggle, Microsoft, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
CORD-19 is available from the Allen Institute and will be updated weekly as new articles become available. The article data are formatted in JSON, making the collection ideal for computational methods such as data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. We hope this collection serves as a call to action for the community to improve our understanding of coronaviruses and the human diseases they cause. Have a look and let us know what you think!
Rapid access to SARS-CoV-2 data from the current public health emergency
As the global health emergency around the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, formerly 2019-nCoV) continues, we continue to play a key role in providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from the coronavirus. You can quickly access these data through the NCBI search (Figure 1).
Figure 1. NCBI search results for the term “SARS-COV-2” showing the schematic map of the viral assembly and annotation and buttons that link to the data in the NCBI Virus resource, a specialized BLAST page that searches Betacoronavirus sequences, and the reference assembly download. The bottom panel provides links to the CDC website for COVID-19 information and a link to GenBank®/SRA sequence data.
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