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. 2024 Jan 5;52(D1):D134-D137.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad903.

GenBank 2024 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 2024 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 25 trillion base pairs from over 3.7 billion nucleotide sequences for 557 000 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 policies for including spatio-temporal metadata, clarified documentation for GenBank data processing, enhanced foreign contamination screening tools, new processes in the Submission Portal, migration of Entrez Genome and Assembly displays into NCBI Datasets, and the impending retirement of tbl2asn, replaced by table2asn.

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Graphical Abstract
Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Growth of GenBank recorded in both base pairs (triangles) and the number of sequence records (circles). Each point represents the GenBank release in August of each year, starting with release 173 (August 2009).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Summary of GenBank and SRA data processing. Data progress from an initial submitted stage (green) where the submitter uploads data and provides a target release data, to a private stage (red) where NCBI performs quality checks and prepares data for release, and finally to a public stage (blue) where the data are available on public NCBI resources.
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