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. 2022 Jan 7;50(D1):D161-D164.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab1135.

GenBank

Eric W Sayers  1 , Mark Cavanaugh  1 , Karen Clark  1 , Kim D Pruitt  1 , Conrad L Schoch  1 , Stephen T Sherry  1 , Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi  1
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GenBank

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

GenBank® (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains 15.3 trillion base pairs from over 2.5 billion nucleotide sequences for 504 000 formally described species. Recent updates include resources for data from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including a SARS-CoV-2 landing page, NCBI Datasets, NCBI Virus and the Submission Portal. We also discuss upcoming changes to GI identifiers, a new data management interface for BioProject, and advice for providing contextual metadata in submissions.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
SARS-CoV-2 Data Hub in the NCBI Virus resource.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Growth of SARS-CoV-2 sequence data in GenBank. Each data point represents the cumulative number of records (left axis) or base pairs (right axis) at each date.
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