An updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection is available! This collection of 18,343 genomes was built by selecting exactly one genome assembly for each species among the 312,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq, except for E. coli for which two assemblies were selected as reference.
The criteria for selecting the reference assembly for a given species include assembly contiguity and completeness and quality of the RefSeq annotation.
What’s new?
- 790 species were added to the collection
- 199 species are represented by a better assembly (compared to the April 2023 release)
- 70 species were removed because of changes in NCBI Taxonomy or uncertainty in their species assignment
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