GenBank

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2021 Dec 1

PMID 34850943

Citations 88

Authors

Eric W Sayers

Mark Cavanaugh

Karen Clark

Kim D Pruitt

Conrad L Schoch

Stephen T Sherry

Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi

Affiliations

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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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