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GenBank Size, scope: Release 118.0 (June 15, 2000): 8,604,221,980 bases, from 7,077,491 reported sequences See GenBank release notes. Growth of GenBank based on section 2.2.8 of GenBank release notes number of species: >75,000 See Taxnomy Statistics. Bimonthly full release and daily updates full release: February, April, June, August, October, December 16 GenBank divisions see sample GenBank record Submitting data to GenBank General Information BankIt Sequin Special batch submission procedures for ESTs, STSs, GSSs, and HTGs Daily exchange of data between the three databases of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank) graphic References GenBank Benson, D.A., Karsch-Mizrachi I., Lipman D.J., Ostell J., Rapp B.A., Wheeler D.L. 2000. GenBank. Nucl. Acids Res. 28(1):15-18. [PubMed] GenBank Divisions Ouellette B.F., and Boguski, M.S. 1997. Database divisions and homology search files: A guide for the perplexed. Genome Res. 7(10): 952-955. (This article discusses some specialized divisions of GenBank, including the High-Throughput Genomic Sequence (HTG) division.) [PubMed] ESTs Boguski MS, Lowe TM, Tolstoshev CM. 1993. dbEST--database for "expressed sequence tags." Nat Genet 4(4):332-333. [PubMed] Schuler GD. 1997. Pieces of the puzzle: expressed sequence tags and the catalog of human genes. J Mol Med 75 (10):694-698. (This article discusses the nature and uses of ESTs.) [PubMed] STSs Olson M, Hood L, Cantor C, Botstein D. 1989. A common language for physical mapping of the human genome. Science 245:1434-1435 (This article discusses Sequence Tagged Sites (STSs).) [PubMed]

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