GenBank release 225.0 (4/14/2018) has 208,452,303 traditional records (including non-bulk-oriented TSA) containing 260,189,141,631 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 621,379,029 WGS records containing 2,784,740,996,536 base pairs of sequence data, 227,364,990 TSA records containing 205,232,396,043 base pairs of sequence data, and 14,782,654 TLS records containing 5,612,769,448 base pairs of sequence data.
During the 60 days between the close dates for GenBank releases 224.0 and 225.0, the traditional portion of GenBank grew by 6,558,433,533 base pairs and by 1,411,748 sequence records. During that same period, 86,960 records were updated – an average of 24,978 records added or updated per day.
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