GenBank

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Description
 GenBank is developed by the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the U.S.National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with EMBL Data Library (UK) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan. GenBank is a genetic sequence database, "an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences" of over 55,000 species based on submissions of sequence information from authors. The integrated retrieval system, Entrez, provides text and similarity searching in several linked databases:
PubMed The biomedical literature (PubMed)
NucleotideSequence Database (GenBank)
ProteinSequence database
StructureThree-dimensional macromolecular structures
GenomeComplete genome assemblies
PopSetPopulation study data sets
TaxonomyOrganisms in GenBank
OMIMOnline Mendelian Inheritance in Man

About GenBank
An article about GenBank: "GenBank" Nucleic Acids Research 2000, v. 28 (1): 15-18

Subjects Genetics, DNA and amino acid sequences.
Coverage Publicly available DNA sequences; over 10 million sequence records as of February 1, 2001.
License Terms & Conditions Access to GenBank is provided for free by NCBI.There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users.

"NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted."

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