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Types of Databases module of the MLA course on Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources
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GenBank

  • archival database of nucleotide sequences from >160,000 organisms

  • records annotated with coding region (CDS) features also include amino acid translations

  • each record represents the work of a single lab

  • redundant; can have many sequence records for a single gene

  • part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (described in a later slide)

  • more information about GenBank...


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