GenBank 188.0 Close-Of-Data

[Cavanaugh, Mark (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]]

Greetings GenBank Users,

Close-of-data for the upcoming GenBank Release 188.0 occurred
Saturday February 11 2012, at approximately 1:30am EST.

The subsequently generated GenBank Incremental Update files
nc0211.aso, nc0211.flat, etc. contain data through the close.

Note: Release processing often does not begin until sometime during
business hours on the close date. As a result, a number of sequence
records processed *after* 1:30am are likely to be present in the
GenBank 188.0 release files, even though they are "post-close" .

Similarly, the first GenBank Incremental Update generated after
the close date is likely to contain a number of sequence records
that are unchanged, compared to their appearance in the release
files.

We expect that the GenBank 188.0 data files will be made
available within a few days.

Our apologies for the lack of advance notice about the close
date.

Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS