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• Upcoming Change in My Bibliography

  Sep 8, 2025

  Use of earliest publication date for determining NIH Public Access compliance As shared in the July National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Insights post, NCBI at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is making ongoing improvements to several offerings to support implementation of the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy. Effective October 1, 2025, My Bibliography ... Continue reading Upcoming Change in My Bibliography →

• An Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is Available!

  Sep 2, 2025

  Download the updated bacterial and archaeal reference genome collection! We built this collection of 22,082 genomes by selecting the "best" genome assembly for each species among the 440,000+ prokaryotic genomes in RefSeq. What’s new? 28 species are represented in this collection for the first time 228 species are represented by a better assembly Six species were removed ... Continue reading An Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is Available! →

• GenBank Release 268.0 is Available!

  Aug 26, 2025

  GenBank release 268.0 (8/18/2025) is now available on the NCBI FTP site. This release has 47.01 trillion bases and 5.90 billion records. The current release has: 258,320,620 traditional records containing 5,676,067,778,413 base pairs of sequence data 4,441,331,387 WGS records containing 40,390,433,406,298 base pairs of sequence data 1,010,159,820 bulk-oriented TSA records containing 864,483,775,194 base pairs of ... Continue reading GenBank Release 268.0 is Available! →