[Genbank-bb] GenBank Release 166.0 Now Available

[Francis Ouellette]

> From: Mark Cavanaugh <cavanaug from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
>
>  GenBank has surpassed the 200-billion basepair threshold, with a total
> of 205,647,903,211 bases as of this June 2008 release.

Wow 200 billion nucleotides! I remember when we celebrated 1 Billion nucleotides!

Good work all the folks at the NCBI - good way to celebrate 25 years!

Cheers,

f.

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