NCBI News: Spring 2004|RefSeq Release 6

Transitioning from LocusLink to Entrez Gene

Cancer Chromosomes: a New Entrez Database

HomoloGene: An Entrez Database with a New Look

BLAST Link (BLink) to Protein Alignments and Structures

Debut of the HCT Database and Anthropology/Allele Frequencies in dbMHC

350kb Sequence Length Limit Removed by Sequence Database Collaboration

New Eukaryotic Genomes at NCBI

Environmental Samples Make Big Splash

HIV Protein-Interaction Database

e-PCR and Reverse e-PCR: Greater Sensitivity, More Options

New Organisms in UniGene

RefSeq Accession Numbers Get Longer as Rat Gets Last 6-digit Accession

Slots available for FieldGuidePlus Training Course Onsite at NCBI

RefSeq Release 6 on FTP Site

Exponential Growth of GenBank Continues with Release 142

Entrez Tools is a 'Hot Spot'

BLAST Lab: Using BLASTClust

New Microbial Genomes in GenBank

Entrez Quiz

Masthead

RefSeq Release 6 on FTP Site

RefSeq Release 6 is now available by anonymous FTP at:

ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/release

Release 6 includes genomic, transcript, and protein sequences available as of July 5, 2004 from 2,467 organisms. The number of RefSeq accessions in Release 6 and their combined lengths is given in the shaded box.

RefSeq releases are posted bimonthly and the next release is scheduled for September. Release notes documenting the scope and content of the release are provided at:

ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/release-notes

For more information, visit the NCBI RefSeq Web Site at:

www.ncbi.nih.gov/RefSeq

Genomic

RNA

Protein

#Accessions

68,592

247,639

1,050,975

#Basepairs/Residues

8,263,102,565

433,269,151

365,446,682