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GenBank Release 144

BLAST 2.2.10

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Masthead

GenBank Release 144

GenBank Release 144 (October 2004) contains over 38 million sequence entries totaling more than 43 billion base pairs. Release 145 is expected in December. GenBank is accessible via the Entrez search and retrieval system. The flatfile and ASN.1 versions of the Release are found in the “genbank” and “ncbi-asn1” directories respectively at:

ftp.ncbi.nih.gov

Uncompressed, the Release 144 flatfiles consume about 147 gigabytes while the ASN.1 version consumes about 128 gigabytes. The data can also be downloaded at two mirror sites:

genbank.sdsc.edu/pub bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank