What is GenBank?

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NCBI’s Primary Sequence Database

only sequence database
Archival in nature
GenBank Data
Direct submissions individual records (BankIt, Sequin)
Batch submissions via email (EST, GSS, STS)
ftp accounts established for sequencing centers
Data shared amongst three collaborating databases:
GenBank
DNA Database of Japan (DDBJ).
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Database
(EMBL)

GenBank: NCBI’s Primary Sequence Database

Release 136 June 2003

25,592,865 Records
18,197,119(June 2002)
32,528,249,295 Nucleotides
22,616,937,182(June 2002)
110,000 + Species