NCBI News: Summer 2003 | GenBank Release 137

The Reference Human Genome

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Major Histocompat-ibility Complex database (dbMHC)

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GenBank Release 137

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GenBank Release 137

GenBank release 137 (August 2003) contains over 27 million sequence entries totaling more than 33 billion base pairs. 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 137 flatfiles consume about 121 gigabytes while the ASN.1 version consumes about 100 gigabytes. The data can also be downloaded at two mirror sites:

genbank.sdsc.edu/pub

bio-mirror.net/biomirror/genbank