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Replacements for NCBI nr
NCBI nr is the comprehensive database of non-identical protein sequences compiled by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database configuration has long been shipped with Mascot Server as the NCBIprot predefined definition. However, it seems the FASTA file has quietly been retired; the last version appears to be the February 2024 file. The last-modified time of nr.gz on the [...]
Disruption ahead for NCBI databases
NCBI has announced that it will drop ‘gi number’ unique identifiers on June 15, 2016. Details are given in section 1.4 of the GenBank release notes. This will create difficulties for users of many bioinformatic tools, not just Mascot. Particularly in the context of major projects, where analyses are performed over an extended time period and results consolidated by protein [...]