GenBank® Release 155

GenBank® Release 155 (August 2006) contains over 61 million sequence entries totaling more than 65 billion base pairs. Release 156 is expected in October. 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 155 flatfiles consume about 230 Gigabytes while the ASN.1 version consumes about 199 Gigabytes. The data can also be downloaded at a mirror site:

bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank