GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42).

Prefix

genbank

Keywords

bioinformatics cdna/est comparative genomics covid-19 dna dna sequencing assay epigenomics functional genomics genetic variation genome alignment genome assembly genome/gene genomics metagenomics metaproteomics microbiology next generation sequencing reference genome repository rna rna-seq assay sequence sequence annotation sequence databases sequence variant sequencing assay transcriptomics virology

License

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html

Links

Homepage

Publications

2024 GenBank 2025 update

2020 VADR: validation and annotation of virus sequence submissions to GenBank

2020 GenBank

2019 GenBank

2018 GenBank

2016 GenBank

2015 GenBank

2014 GenBank

2013 GenBank

2012 GenBank

2011 GenBank

2010 GenBank

2008 GenBank

2007 GenBank

2006 Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

U49845   Resolve

Example CURIE

genbank:U49845

Contact

Eric P. Nawrocki   0000-0002-2497-3427   nawrockie

Contributor

creator Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Has incoming URI collisions

The following resources share a URI format string with genbank:
ncbigi

When generating an extended prefix map, their respective CURIE prefixes and URI prefixes are merged into the record for genbank. If you believe that these are distinct semantic spaces and should not be merged, please open a new issue on the Bioregistry issue tracker for discussion.

In Collection (1)

Resources mentioned in "Sharing biological data: why, when, and how"

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 9 mappings to external registries with 7 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier U49845 is used to demonstrate the providers available for GenBank. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.