SoftGenetics has released an assembler for next-generation sequencing data from the Illumina MiSeq. The new assembler is available in SoftGenetics' NextGene software and resolves repeat region assembly problems that are typical of short-read sequencing using a stepwise paired-end assembly method, according to the company.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information has released version 51 of RefSeq, available by FTP server here.
The release includes genomic, transcript, and protein data available as of Jan. 9. It includes 19,580,946 records, 14,090,554 proteins, 2,908,099 RNAs, and sequences from 16,609 different organisms. Since the last release, a Bos taurus genome assembly has been updated and three mitochondrial genomes that had been omitted were added.