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. 2020 Jan 8;48(D1):D84-D86.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz956.

GenBank

Eric W Sayers  1 , Mark Cavanaugh  1 , Karen Clark  1 , James Ostell  1 , Kim D Pruitt  1 , Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi  1
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GenBank

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

GenBank® (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains over 6.25 trillion base pairs from over 1.6 billion nucleotide sequences for 450 000 formally described species. Daily data exchange with the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) ensures worldwide coverage. Recent updates include a new version of Genome Workbench that supports GenBank submissions, new submission wizards for viral genomes, enhancements to BankIt and improved handling of taxonomy for sequences from pathogens.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Growth of the five GenBank divisions that received the most sequence data in 2019, along with the growth of GenBank as a whole.
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