appears_in: [] contributor: email: cthoyt@gmail.com github: cthoyt name: Charles Tapley Hoyt orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370 depends_on: [] deprecated: false description: A GI number (for GenInfo Identifier, sometimes written in lower case, _gi_) is a simple series of digits that are assigned consecutively to each sequence record processed by NCBI. The GI number bears no resemblance to the Version number of the sequence record. Each time a sequence record is changed, it is assigned a new GI number. example: '568815597' has_canonical: genbank homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sequenceids/ keywords: [] mappings: biocontext: NCBIGI edam: '2314' go: NCBI_gi ncbi: GI name: GenInfo Identifier owners: - name: National Center for Biotechnology Information partnered: false ror: 02meqm098 pattern: ^\d+$ preferred_prefix: ncbigi prefix: ncbigi providers: [] publications: [] references: - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/sequenceIDs.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Class/MLACourse/Modules/Format/exercises/qa_accession_vs_gi.html synonyms: - NCBI_gi - ncbi.gi uri_format: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=$1