GenBank

Eric W Sayers; Mark Cavanaugh; Karen Clark; James Ostell; Kim D Pruitt; Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi

doi:10.1093/nar/gkz956

GenBank

Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Jan 8;48(D1):D84-D86. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz956.

Authors

Eric W Sayers¹, Mark Cavanaugh¹, Karen Clark¹, James Ostell¹, Kim D Pruitt¹, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi¹

Affiliation

¹ National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.

Abstract

GenBank® (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains over 6.25 trillion base pairs from over 1.6 billion nucleotide sequences for 450 000 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 a new version of Genome Workbench that supports GenBank submissions, new submission wizards for viral genomes, enhancements to BankIt and improved handling of taxonomy for sequences from pathogens.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research 2019.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

Computational Biology / methods*
Databases, Nucleic Acid*
Genomics / methods*
Molecular Sequence Annotation
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Software*
United States
Web Browser