Mar 18, 2025

RefSNP (rs) exceed 1.2 billion records  We are pleased to announce the release of the Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (dbSNP) Build 157, which has approximately 1.2 billion Reference SNP (rs) records across the human genome. This build includes updated datasets from 1000Genomes, TOPMed, gnomAD, NCBI ALFA release 3, and other studies that now incorporate … Continue reading dbSNP Build 157 Release →

Mar 13, 2025

Check out RefSeq release 229, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings. What’s included in this release? As of March 3, 2025, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing: … Continue reading RefSeq Release 229 is Now Available! →

Mar 11, 2025

GenBank release 265.0 (3/8/2025) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 41.96 trillion bases and 5.56 billion records. The current release has:  255,669,865 traditional records containing 5,415,448,651,743 base pairs of sequence data 4,152,691,448 WGS records containing 35,643,977,584,264 base pairs of sequence data 961,491,801 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 824,439,978,941 base pairs of … Continue reading GenBank Release 265.0 Now Available! →