GenBank

Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D92-D96. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1023.

Abstract

GenBank® (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) is a comprehensive, public database that contains 9.9 trillion base pairs from over 2.1 billion nucleotide sequences for 478 000 formally described species. Daily data exchange with the European Nucleotide Archive and the DNA Data Bank of Japan ensures worldwide coverage. Recent updates include new resources for data from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, updates to the NCBI Submission Portal and associated submission wizards for dengue and SARS-CoV-2 viruses, new taxonomy queries for viruses and prokaryotes, and simplified submission processes for EST and GSS sequences.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Computational Biology / statistics & numerical data*
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • Genomics / methods*
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
  • Internet
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation / methods
  • Pandemics
  • SARS-CoV-2 / genetics*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*