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Entrez Programming Utilities (E-Utils)

PubChem

GenePlot

New NLM Catalog in Entrez

New Genome Builds

New Microbial Genomes in GenBank

Whole Genome Shotgun Project

Web BLAST

Trace Archive Grows

New Organisms in UniGene

RefSeq Version 8

Submissions Corner

Predicted Records

GenBank Release 144

BLAST 2.2.10

Publications

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Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) Sequence Project Page

WGS sequences appear in GenBank as sets of WGS contigs, many bearing annotations, originating from a single sequencing project. These sequences bear accession numbers consisting of a 4-letter project ID, followed by a two-digit version number, and a 6-digit contig ID. Hence, the WGS accession number "AAAA01072744" is assigned to contig number "072744" of the first version of project "AAAA". Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing projects have contributed over 4,000,000 contigs to GenBank and these primary sequences have been used to construct some 237,000 large-scale assemblies of scaffolds and chromosomes. WGS project contigs for Homo sapiens, Canis familiaris, Pan trodlodytes, Drosophila, Saccharomyces , and more than 100 other organisms and environmental samples are available. For a complete list of WGS projects with links to the data, see :

 

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