Frustrating. hopefully NIH will recover after the weekend 🤞 As a backup, our sequenceserver.com lets you run NCBI BLAST anytime - many PIs have an instance for their team. (we created it to BLAST unpublished data, get prettier graphics that help interpretation, and improve collaboration)

The season’s most romantic meet-cute mystery, how do gametes released into the environment recognize their own #species?🤔 New #research reveals #proteins on the unfertilized eggs might be key—at least in ribbon worms!🪱 👏 Congrats to the authors! Link👇 #science #marine #genetics #bioinformatics

Will we ever stop celebrating #databases? Not likely! They offer high-quality #datasets to scientists worldwide. Perfect example: Reefgenomics(.Org)🪸 Published in 2016, this #BLASTfromthePast is still being updated with #coral #genomes today! We're proud to be a part! Links👇 #reef #marinescience

You’ve heard of blue-blooded, but that pales (literally) in comparison to white-blooded icefishes 🐟, the only #vertebrates without #hemoglobin! 🩸 Shin et al., (with help from #SequenceServer!) reveal that #gene loss may be to blame. Congrats to the authors! 🎉 Link👇 #genomics

Thanks to new #research on gars & bowfins, the evolution of #vertebrate #immune surveillance just got more garbled🐟Turns out these #fish have their own PSMB8 types, completely unique among vertebrates! Fascinating! 🧬 Congrats to the authors! Glad #SequenceServer could help! Check out the paper 👇

Open Sesame! 🪄 By now you know we love an open access #database! Well, SesamumGDB, the brand-new #genomic database for cultivated & wild #sesame #species, is here! 🌿 Plus, with #SequenceServer integration, you can #BLAST away to your heart’s content! 🧬 Link 👇 Happy BLASTing!

🌻Sunflowers, 🥬lettuces, & 🫖chamomile: all from the #Asteraceae family, which covers 7% of flowering #plant diversity! This makes AMIR, a multi-omics #database with 74 species, 4.4M annotated #genes, & #SequenceServer BLAST capabilities, a huge deal! Congrats Liu et al. Links 👇

🦠 K. pneumoniae, a key culprit for #septicemia & UTIs, showed increasing #antimicrobialresistance between 2019-2021 based on whole #genome sequencing by Gamaleldin et al. 🧬 Concerning, but work like this is crucial for tracking the rise in resistant #pathogens. Link 👇

🦠 Bacteria-on-bacteria warfare in #milk might help treat Staph aureus & MRSA! 🥛Check out this #BLASTfromthePast where researchers isolate bacteriocins—bacteria's own bacteria-killing weapon—from bovine milk & test their inhibitory power on S. aureus and MRSA. Link👇 #genetics #bacteria #science

Did you know? Raphid #diatoms are one of the few eukaryotes that can glide! And they do it surprisingly... rap(h)idly! 🏎️ Congrats to Davutoglu et al. for their latest Nature #paper on the #molecular secrets behind this movement. Glad SequenceServer could help! 🌟 #genetics #science #research

More exciting #genomics research to highlight, this time focusing on cactophilic flies that make their living in necrotic #cactus tissue (yum)! 🌵 Huge congrats to the authors 🎉 & delighted to see SequenceServer integrated into their publicly accessible #database. Check it out! (links in comments) 👇

Struggling to decode your #blastn results? 🧬 SequenceServer has you covered! Our latest #blog is a step-by-step guide packed with handy examples to help you master blastn! Check it out (link in the comments). Happy BLASTing! #Bioinformatics #Genomics #BLAST #ResearchTips

🚨 #BLASTfromthePast: Revisiting a truly enlightening study on the origins of firefly #bioluminescence. 🌟 Did fireflies and click #beetles share a glowing ancestor? Or did they #evolve it separately? Fascinating paper! Proud that #SequenceServer could play a part! #genomics #genetics #bioinformatics

🌱Peas are #plant protein powerhouses (phew, that's a lot of P's!), but their quality relies on sulfur availability. Bachelet et al., with the help of #SequenceServer, explore how #pea adapts to low-sulfur environments using #sulfate transporters. Check out the paper (link👇) #genomics #agronomy

Whether you’re new to genome #annotation or a seasoned pro, SequenceServer cloud’s DNA visualizer simplifies the process to just copy, paste, click! 🧬Analyze BLAST hits, #plasmids & whole #genome features with informative visualizations! Check out our blog for more info (link 👇) Happy BLASTing!

We love celebrating the incredible work of researchers worldwide & seeing SequenceServer’s impact! 🌟 One perfect example is van’t Hof et al., 2024, reporting a previously undescribed sex-determination mechanism in Lepidoptera! 🦋 Check out the paper using the link in the comments! #genetics

Every SequenceServer BLAST search now *also* includes independent domain results (from NCBI's Conserved Domain Database).🎉🎉🥳