GenBank

  GenBank is a component of a tri-partite, international collaboration of
sequence databases in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.  The collaborating
database in Europe is the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
at Hinxton Hall, UK, and in Japan, the DNA Database of Japan (DDBJ) in
Mishima, Japan. Sequence data is also incorporated from the Genome Sequence
Data Base (GSDB), Santa Fe, NM.  Patent sequences are incorporated through
arrangements with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and via the
collaborating international databases from other international patent offices.
The database is converted to various output formats including the Flat File
and Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) versions.  The ASN.1 form of the data is
included in www-Entrez and network-Entrez and is also available, as is the
flat file, by anonymous FTP to 'ncbi.nlm.nih.gov'.


If you have any questions, please contact:

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NCBI's electronic mail address is:     info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov