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GenBank
an on-line database of publicly available DNA sequence data maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). GenBank exchanges data daily with two other large sequence databases, the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank)

GenBank
Molecular biology An electronic repository of publicly available DNA sequences, which is maintained by the NIH. Cf Swiss-Prot.


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A heminested PCR targeting the major capsid protein gene was performed (3), amplicons were sequenced (SeqWright DNA Technology Services, Houston, TX, USA), and a GenBank BLAST search (www.
The data, which consists of more than 200,000 lines of expressed sequence tags, more than doubles the amount of wheat genome information currently available through GenBank, a public database of DNA information.
However, after the initial isolation, GenBank played the crucial role of helping to determine whether this was a new disease or an old virus that had evolved a new pathogenicity.
 
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