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Posted by David Creasy (August 17, 2018)
Back to Basics 2: Common mistakes
When a search on our public web fails, we are often contacted to provide some help. These are some of the common mistakes we have seen. Most of the focus here is on Peptide Mass Fingerprint (PMF) searches, which are still very popular on our public web site. If you are new to database searching, you may find this tutorial [...]
Posted by John Cottrell (January 14, 2016)
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 [...]