The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research database issue (https://academic.oup.com/nar/issue/46/D1) features several papers from NCBI staff that cover the status and future of databases including CCDS, ClinVar, GenBank and RefSeq. These papers are also available on PubMed.
* "Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information" by NCBI Resource Coordinators (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29140470)
* "GenBank" by Dennis A Benson, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, James Ostell, Kim D Pruitt and Eric W Sayers (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29140468)
* "Consensus coding sequence (CCDS) database: a standardized set of human and mouse protein-coding regions supported by expert curation" by Shashikant Pujar, Nuala A O'Leary, Catherine M Farrell, Jane E Loveland, Jonathan M Nudge et al. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29126148)
* "RefSeq: an update on prokaryotic genome annotation and curation" by Daniel D Haft, Michael DiCuccio, Azat Badretdin, Vyacheslav Brover, Vyacheslav Chetvernin et al. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29112715)
* "ClinVar: improving access to variant interpretations and supporting evidence" by Melissa J. Landrum, Jennifer M. Lee, Mark Benson, Garth Brown, Chen Chao et al. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29165669)
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