GenBank Release 249.0

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 22:54 NCBI announcements and updates <ncbi-a...@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov> wrote:

GenBank release 249.0 (4/19/2022) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 17.85 trillion bases and 2.66 billion records.

The current release has 237,520,318 traditional records containing 1,266,154,890,918 base pairs of sequence data. There are also 1,781,374,217 WGS records containing 16,071,520,702,170 base pairs of sequence data, 534,770,586 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 474,421,076,448 base pairs of sequence data, and 109,820,387 bulk-oriented TLS records containing 41,324,192,343 base pairs of sequence data. 

During the 59 days between the close dates for GenBank releases 248.0 and 249.0, the ‘traditional’ portion of GenBank grew by 92,170,809,197 base pairs and by 1,182,034 sequence records. During that same period, 60,526 records were updated. An average of 21,060 ‘traditional’ records were added and/or updated per day.

See our NCBI Insights post (https://go.usa.gov/xu8mT) for more details.


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