In the announcement regarding GenBank 205.0 availability,
there was a mistake in the statistics for the two-month
growth in WGS sequences. It should be:
Recent statistics for WGS sequences:
Release Date Base Pairs Entries
204 Oct 2014 805549167708 196049974
205 Dec 2014 848977922022 200301550
rather than what you see below, in the original
announcement. Our apologies for the oversight!
Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cavanaugh, Mark (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [E]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 8:30 PM
> To: 'genbankb from net.bio.net' (genbankb from net.bio.net)
> Subject: GenBank Release 205.0 Available : December 15 2014
>> Greetings GenBank Users,
>> GenBank Release 205.0 is now available via FTP from the National Center
> for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):
>> Ftp Site Directory Contents
> ---------------- --------- ---------------------------------------
> ftp.ncbi.nih.gov genbank GenBank Release 205.0 flatfiles
> ncbi-asn1 ASN.1 data used to create Release 205.0
>> Close-of-data for GenBank 205.0 occurred on 12/12/2014. Uncompressed,
> the Release 205.0 flatfiles require roughly 688 GB (sequence files only).
> The ASN.1 data require approximately 562 GB.
>> Recent statistics for non-WGS, non-CON sequences:
>> Release Date Base Pairs Entries
>> 204 Oct 2014 181563676918 178322253
> 205 Dec 2014 184938063614 179295769
>> Recent statistics for WGS sequences:
>> Release Date Base Pairs Entries
>> 204 Oct 2014 805549167708 196049974
> 205 Dec 2014 184938063614 179295769 <<<<<<< Incorrect
