GenBank 2023 update
Eric W Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark, Kim D. Pruitt, Stephen T. Sherry, Linda Yankie, Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi
Abstract
GenBank® (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains 19.6 trillion base pairs from over 2.9 billion nucleotide sequences for 504 000 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 resources for data from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, NCBI Datasets, BLAST ClusteredNR, the Submission Portal, table2asn, a Foreign Contamination Screening tool and BioSample.
Topics & Concepts
GenBankBiologyBase sequenceDatabaseGeneticsDNAComputer scienceGeneBacteriophages and microbial interactionsEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity StudiesMolecular Biology Techniques and Applications