title: GenBank.
abstract: GenBank (R) is a comprehensive sequence database that contains publicly available DNA sequences for more than 119 000 different organisms, obtained primarily through the submission of sequence data from individual laboratories and batch submissions from 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. Daily data exchange with the EMBL Data Library in the UK and the DNA Data Bank of Japan helps ensure worldwide coverage. GenBank is accessible through NCBI's 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 journal literature via 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. To access GenBank and its related retrieval and analysis services, go to the NCBI home page at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
authors.forename: Dennis A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Benson
authors.forename: Ilene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karsch-Mizrachi
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lipman
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ostell
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Wheeler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003625:Data Collection; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites