GenBank® Release 158

GenBank Release 158 (February 2007) contains over 67 million sequence entries totaling more than 71 billion base pairs. Release 159 is scheduled for April 2007. 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 158 flatfiles are 252 Gigabytes and the ASN.1 version is about 217 Gigabytes. The data can also be downloaded at a mirror site:

bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank