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Dennis
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A
Last name
Benson
    Description
    Scientific peer-reviewed publication
    Description/abstract

    GenBankĀ® (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive database that contains publicly available nucleotide sequences for 400 000 formally described species. These sequences are obtained primarily through submissions from individual laboratories and batch submissions from large-scale sequencing projects, including whole genome shotgun and environmental sampling projects. Most submissions are made using BankIt, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Submission Portal, or the tool tbl2asn. GenBank staff assign accession numbers upon data receipt. Daily data exchange with the European Nucleotide Archive and the DNA Data Bank of Japan ensures worldwide coverage. GenBank is accessible through the NCBI Nucleotide database, which links to related information such as taxonomy, genomes, protein sequences and structures, and biomedical journal literature in 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. Recent updates include changes to sequence identifiers, submission wizards for 16S and Influenza sequences, and an Identical Protein Groups resource.

    Topics
    Unclassified
    ISSN Number
    0305-1048, 1362-4962
    Access rights to the publication
    Closed access
    Country(ies)
    International
    Journal
    Nucleic Acids Research
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press (OUP)
    Year of Publication
    2017
    Volume
    46
    Issue
    D1
    Pages
    D41-D47