Everything about GenBank

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GenBankA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: GenBank 2024 UpdateInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Nucleotide Sequences 1986/1987The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: GenBankCited 3,195 times
5. Go sideways: European Nucleotide ArchiveA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: National Center for Biotechnology InformationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• GenBank

  Dennis A. Benson, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark · 2012 · Nucleic Acids Research · 3,195 citations

• GenBank

  Karen Clark, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi, David J. Lipman · 2015 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,559 citations

• Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda)11Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper are available in the GenBank™, EMBL and DDBJ databases under the accession numbers AY222082–AY222285.

  P.D. Olson, T.H. Cribb, V.V. Tkach · 2003 · International Journal for Parasitology · 930 citations

• GenBank

  D. A. Benson · 2004 · Nucleic Acids Research · 898 citations

• The mcrA gene as an alternative to 16S rRNA in the phylogenetic analysis of methanogen populations in landfill b bThe GenBank accession numbers for the mcrA sequences reported in this paper are AF414034–AF414051 (see Fig. 2) and AF414007–AF414033 (environmental isolates in Fig. 3).

  Philip E. Luton, Jonathan M. Wayne, Richard J. Sharp · 2002 · Microbiology · 798 citations

• GenBank

  Dennis A Benson, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark · 2017 · Nucleic Acids Research · 761 citations

• GenBank

  D. A. Benson · 2000 · Nucleic Acids Research · 745 citations

• GenBank

  D. A. Benson, I. Karsch-Mizrachi, D. J. Lipman · 2007 · Nucleic Acids Research · 740 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• GenBank 2024 Update

  Eric W Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 347 citations

• GenBank 2025 update

  Eric W Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Linda Frisse · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · 180 citations

• GenBank 2023 update

  Eric W Sayers, Mark Cavanaugh, Karen Clark · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 164 citations

• An automated workflow to assess completeness and curate GenBank for environmental DNA metabarcoding: The marine fish assemblage as case study

  Cristina Claver, Oriol Canals, Leire G. de Amézaga · 2023 · Environmental DNA · 38 citations

• Taxonomic identification accuracy from BOLD and GenBank databases using over a thousand insect DNA barcodes from Colombia

  Nathalie Baena-Bejarano, Catalina Reina, Diego Esteban Martínez-Revelo · 2023 · PLOS ONE · 37 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Nucleotide Sequences 1986/1987Edwin J. Atencio · 1987
• 📕Symposium om genbankerNordiskt symposium om genbanker och andra former för bevarande av genetiska naturresurser (1978 Hanaholmen) · 1978
• Nucleotide Sequences 1984European Molecular Biology Laboratory Sequence Library · 1984
• 📕Data reference setGenBank · 1993
• 📕Genbank för jordbruk och trädgårdsnäringSweden. Genbankutredningen. · 1975
• 📕Genbank for jordbruk och tradgardsnaringSweden. · 1975
• 📕Élő örökségünk · 1979
• 📕PatentIn user manual · 1990

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🔗 Related topics

• European Nucleotide Archive The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is a repository providing free and unrestricted access to annotated DNA and RNA sequences. It also stores complementary…
• National Center for Biotechnology Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health…
• Expressed sequence tag In genetics, an expressed sequence tag (EST) is a short sub-sequence of a cDNA sequence. ESTs may be used to identify gene transcripts, and were instrumental…
• DbSNP The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted…
• RefSeq The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database is an open access, annotated and curated collection of publicly available nucleotide sequences (DNA, RNA) and…
• Entrez The Entrez (/ɒnˈtreɪ/) Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete…
• International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) consists of a joint effort to collect and disseminate databases containing DNA and…
• Sequence Read Archive The Sequence Read Archive (SRA, previously known as the Short Read Archive) is a bioinformatics database that provides a public repository for DNA sequencing…