Abstract
GenBank is a comprehensive database that contains publicly available DNA sequences for more than 165,000 named organisms, obtained primarily through submissions from individual laboratories and batch submissions from large-scale sequencing projects. Most submissions are made using the web-based BankIt or standalone Sequin programs and accession numbers are assigned by GenBank staff upon receipt. Daily data exchange with the EMBL Data Library in the UK and the DNA Data Bank of Japan helps to ensure worldwide coverage. GenBank is accessible through NCBI's retrieval system, Entrez, which integrates data from the major DNA and protein sequence databases along with taxonomy, genome, mapping, protein structure and domain information, and the biomedical journal literature via PubMed. BLAST provides sequence similarity searches of GenBank and other sequence databases. Complete bimonthly releases and daily updates of the GenBank database are available by FTP. To access GenBank and its related retrieval and analysis services, go to the NCBI Homepage at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
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GenBankAccession number (library science)BiologySequence (biology)File Transfer ProtocolUniProtInformation retrievalBiological databaseDatabaseComputer scienceData miningWorld Wide WebBioinformaticsGeneticsThe InternetGene
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D. A. Benson
(2004).
GenBank.
Nucleic Acids Research
, 33
(Database issue)
, D34-D38.
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gki063
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- 10.1093/nar/gki063