GenBank® Release 150

GenBank Release 150 (October 2005) contains over 46 million sequence entries totaling more than 51 billion base pairs. Release 151 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 150 flatfiles consume about 205 Gigabytes while the ASN.1 version consumes about 164 Gigabytes. The data can also be downloaded at a mirror site:

bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank