GenBank

Abstract

This FAIRsharing record describes: GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database of annotated collections of all publicly available DNA sequences. GenBank is part of an International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), and GenBank at NCBI. The GenBank database is designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to the most up-to-date and comprehensive DNA sequence information, and release available versioned collections every two months from the ftp site. As part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), a long-standing foundational initiative (operating between DDBJ, EMBL-EBI and NCBI), the INSDC covers the spectrum of data raw reads, through alignments and assemblies to functional annotation, enriched with contextual information relating to samples and experimental configurations. GenBank data submission types include: mRNA sequences, Prokaryotic genes, Eukaryotic genes, rRNA and/or ITS, viral sequences, transposon or insertion sequences, microsatellite sequences, pseudogenes, cloning vectors, phylogenetic or population sets, and non-coding RNAs.

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GenBankRefSeqBiologyAccession number (library science)GenomeFile Transfer ProtocolDatabaseInformation retrievalData miningComputer scienceGeneticsWorld Wide WebThe InternetGene

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Year: 2012
Type: article
Volume: 41
Issue: D1
Pages: D36-D42
Citations: 3137
Access: Closed

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                                    D. A. Benson, 
                                
                                    Mark Cavanaugh, 
                                
                                    Karen Clark
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2012). 
                            GenBank. 
                            Nucleic Acids Research
                            , 41
                            (D1)
                            , D36-D42.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks1195
                        

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DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1195