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Summary
Name	GenBank Flat File
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1770
Family
Classification	Text (Structured)
Disclosure
Description	The GenBank format was developed by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The format is a standardised way of recording DNA and protein sequencing information accompanied with other data, such as Journal references, keywords, definitions and other information, so that it can be easily read by humans and machines. The NCBI Genbank database https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ is a repository of publicly available DNA sequences in the Genbank format, and takes in submissions of Genbank files from all over the world.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	National Center for Biotechnology Information
Supported by	National Center for Biotechnology Information
Source	Bodleian Library, University of Oxford / Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Source date	21 Sep 2022
Source description
Last updated	21 Sep 2022
Note	Specification: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/samplerecord/