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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RefSeq release 218 is now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets.
What’s included in this release?
As of May 1, 2023, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing: