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. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D141-D144.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1012.

GenBank 2023 update

Eric W Sayers  1 , Mark Cavanaugh  1 , Karen Clark  1 , Kim D Pruitt  1 , Stephen T Sherry  1 , Linda Yankie  1 , Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi  1
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GenBank 2023 update

Eric W Sayers et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

GenBank® (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains 19.6 trillion base pairs from over 2.9 billion nucleotide sequences for 504 000 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 resources for data from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, NCBI Datasets, BLAST ClusteredNR, the Submission Portal, table2asn, a Foreign Contamination Screening tool and BioSample.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Annual increase in base pairs (bp) for each division of GenBank in release 251 (August 2022) measured relative to GenBank release 245 (August 2021). The ‘TOTAL’ bar indicates the growth for GenBank as a whole. See Table 1 for a description of the division abbreviations.
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