Check out RefSeq release 225, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets.
What’s included in this release?
As of July 8, 2024, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing:
- 448,507,905 records
- 334,845,613 proteins
- 63,542,774 RNAs
- Sequences from 152,668 organisms
The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings.
New eukaryotic genome annotations
This release contains new annotations generated by NCBI’s eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline for 35 species, including:
- Crab-eating macaque, based on new assembly T2T-MFA8v1.0 (GCF_037993035.1-RS_2024_05)
- Harbor porpoise, based on new assembly mPhoPho1.1 (GCF_963924675.1-RS_2024_06)
- Montezuma quail, based on new assembly pur_monq_1.0 (GCF_038088225.1-RS_2024_06) (pictured)
- Pocillopora verrucosa, based on new assembly ASM3666991v2 (GCF_036669915.1-RS_2024_06)
- Dessert banana, based on new assembly Cavendish_Baxijiao_AAA (GCF_036884655.1-RS_2024_05)
WormBase and PomBase db_xrefs
This release does not contain db_xref qualifiers for Caenorhabditis elegans (WormBase) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (PomBase). We expect to restore these cross-references in the next release.
GenBank qualifier updated
As previously announced, the name of the GenBank qualifier /country was updated to /geo_loc_name in June 2024, to better represent the diversity of sample collection location types.
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