GenBank release 257.0 is now available!

GenBank release 257.0 is now available! This release has 25.10 trillion bases and 3.69 billion records. Learn more: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/21/genbank-release-257/

GenBank release 257.0 (8/15/2023) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 25.10 trillion bases and 3.69 billion records.

The current release has:

  • 246,119,175 traditional records containing 2,112,058,517,945 base pairs of sequence data
  • 2,631,493,489 WGS records containing 22,294,446,104,543 base pairs of sequence data
  • 686,271,945 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 646,176,166,908 base pairs of sequence data
  • 124,421,006 bulk-oriented TLS records containing 48,289,699,026 base pairs of sequence data