A portion of the tutorial. Text reads BLAST: Basic, Local, Alignment, Search, Tool

For more than 20 years we have supported the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Our staff manage the NCBI section of the National Library of Medicine YouTube channel, which has over 73,000 subscribers.

One video tutorial our staff developed was to help users understand the results of the National Center for Biotechnology Information Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. This tutorial received 22,000 views! 

In addition, our staff provide outreach support, develop and teach workshops, and respond to emails from researchers around the world.

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Providing Ground Support Equipment for NASA

CSS employee owners supporting NASA recently completed an upgrade of a new cold plate for Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) ground unit. The Cold Plate is a piece of ground support equipment (GSE) that helps control the temperature of the SUBSA furnace for ground testing, similar to the Cold Plate in the…

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Supporting Hurricane Preparedness and Response

June 1 marks the beginning of hurricane season, but CSS employee owners work throughout the year to help communities prepare for and respond to hurricanes year-round. Through several contracts, CSS helps clients develop tools and content and manage data to provide resources communities and decision-makers can use for hurricane preparedness and response. Explore a few…

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Advancing Severe Weather Predictions with Artificial Intelligence 

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies evolve in Earth sciences, CSS employee owners (formerly Riverside staff) are growing our expertise in this field. CSS employee owners are advancing technologies for our client, NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). Our staff have developed a framework, exploiting modern AI/ML techniques, to rapidly…