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Nucleic acids research ·Vol. 30 ·No. 1 ·2002-01-01 ·Pages 17-20

Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Rapp BA, Wheeler DL

Abstract

The GenBank sequence database incorporates publicly available DNA sequences of more than 105 000 different organisms, primarily through direct submission of sequence data from individual laboratories and large-scale sequencing projects. Most submissions are made using the BankIt (web) or Sequin programs and accession numbers are assigned by GenBank staff upon receipt. Data exchange with the EMBL Data Library and the DNA Data Bank of Japan helps ensure comprehensive worldwide coverage. GenBank data is accessible through NCBI's integrated 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 literature via PubMed. Sequence similarity searching is provided by the BLAST family of programs. Complete bimonthly releases and daily updates of the GenBank database are available by FTP. NCBI also offers a wide range of World Wide Web retrieval and analysis services based on GenBank data. The GenBank database and related resources are freely accessible via the NCBI home page at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

MeSH Terms

Animals Base Sequence Data Collection Databases, Nucleic Acid Expressed Sequence Tags Genome Humans Information Storage and Retrieval Internet National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid Sequence Tagged Sites United States

Authors & Affiliations

6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Benson Dennis A

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. dab@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Karsch-Mizrachi Ilene

Lipman David J

Ostell James

Rapp Barbara A

Wheeler David L

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Article Info

Journal

Nucleic acids research

Abbr.

Nucleic Acids Res

ISSN

1362-4962

DOI

10.1093/nar/30.1.17

dab@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Published

2002-01-01

Pages

17-20

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

0411011

PMCID

PMC99127

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.1.17 PMC Full Text View journal details

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