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Using GenBank

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Plant Bioinformatics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology™ ((MIMB,volume 406))

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GenBank(R) is a comprehensive database of publicly available DNA sequences for more than 205,000 named organisms and for more than 60,000 within the embryophyta, obtained through submissions from individual laboratories and batch submissions from large-scale sequencing projects. Daily data exchange with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Europe and the DNA Data Bank of Japan ensures worldwide coverage. GenBank is accessible through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) retrieval system, Entrez, which integrates data from the major DNA and protein sequence databases with taxonomy, genome, mapping, protein structure, and domain information and the biomedical journal literature through PubMed. BLAST provides sequence similarity searches of GenBank and other sequence databases. Complete bimonthly releases and daily updates of the GenBank database are available through FTP. GenBank usage scenarios ranging from local analyses of the data available through FTP to online analyses supported by the NCBI Web-based tools are discussed. To access GenBank and its related retrieval and analysis services, go to the NCBI Homepage at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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  1. Primary Industries Research Victoria, Plant Genetics and Genomics,Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

    David Edwards

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Wheeler, D. (2007). Using GenBank. In: Edwards, D. (eds) Plant Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 406. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-535-0_2

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