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RecordContent• GenBank (registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services) is a nucleic acid database produced by the National Institute of Health.
• Records in GenBank contain sequences and data such as the GenBank Locus
Number, sequence description, source organism, sequence length, and references.
• In addition, the file contains records with Contiguous Sequences (CONTIG) dataconsisting of a set of overlapping clones or sequences from which a sequence can beobtained.
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File SizeMore than 220.4 million records (3/2017)

Coverage1982 to the present

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The data are compiled primarily from journal literature and direct author submissions forotherwise unpublished sources

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GENBANK

Search and Display Field Codes
Nucleic acid sequences displayed in the SEQ field are not searchable in the GenBank File. You may search
the sequences in the REGISTRY File and then search the resulting REGISTRY answer set L-number in the
GenBank File.
Field that allows left truncation (/BI) is marked with an asterisk (*).
Search Field Name

SearchCode

Display
Codes

Search Examples

Basic Index * (contains single words
from the class identifier (CI),definition (DEF), feature (FEAT),
GenBank accession number(GBN), locus (LOC), organism(ORGN), origin (SRT),
supplementary term (ST), title (TI),
and Comment (COMMENT) fields,
as well as CAS Registry Numbers)(1)None (or/BI)

S MINICIRCLE DNA
S REGULATED (L) EXCISIONS MAJOR (P) STRAINS CHROMOSOME (S) CLONE
S 139791-74-5
S ?PLAST?

CI, COMMENT,
DEF, FEAT,
GBN, LOC,
ORGN, RN, SRT,
ST, TI

Author/AU

AU

Class Identifier
Contiguous Sequences (contains the
GenBank Accession Numbers forthe individual sequences in thecontiguous sequence)
Date (2)Definition
Entry Date (2)FeatureField Availability

/CI
/CONT

S COOK,G?/AU
S COOK, G?/AU
S L1 AND BACTERIA/CI
S AC000098/CONT

DATE
DEF
Not displayed
FEAT
Not displayed

Field Not Available/FNA

GenBank Accession Number(includes GenBank VERSION(VER))
Genome Project Identifier
Journal Title
Locus
Organism Name
Other Source/GBN

S DATE>=20000101 AND L8
S T. CONGOLENSE/DEF
S L1 AND ED>20000800
S REPEAT-REGION/FEATS L1 AND ORGN/FA
S L1 AND CONT/FAS Y CHROMOSOME AND(286364-81-6 OR RN/FNA)S M19751/GBN

PJID
SO
LOC
ORGN
OS

Publication Year (2)Sequence Length (2)

/PY
/SQL

Source (contains journal title,collation information, (volume,
issue, pages), and publicationyear)
Supplementary Term (Keyword)/SO

S 10729/PJID or S GENOMEPROJECT/PJID
S MOL. BIOCHEM. PARASIT?/JTS TRBKPM2/LOC
S STRESS AND EUKARYOT?/ORGN
S L2 AND CA/OS
S 107:110309/OS
S 2000/PY
S 964/SQLS 500-1000/SQLS SQL>100000
S (MOL BIOCHEM AND 109)/SO/ST(or /KW)/UP

S OPERON FUSION/ST
S CARBAMOYL/ST (S) SYNTHETASE/ST
S L7 AND UP>20000831

ST

Update Date (2)

/DATE
/DEF
/ED
/FEAT
/FA

/PJID
/JT
/LOC
/ORGN
/OS

CI
CONT

Not displayed
GBN

SO
SQL

SO

Not displayed(1) A term with left truncation must contain at least four characters.
(2) Numeric search field that may be searched using numeric operators or ranges.
(3) Combined numeric and text field. Numbers of bases are numeric and may be searched using numeric operators or ranges. Baseterms are text terms.

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GENBANKDISPLAY and PRINT Formats
Any combination of formats may be used to display or print answers. Multiple codes must be separated by
spaces or commas, e.g., D L1 1-5 TI AU. The fields are displayed in the order requested.
Hit-term highlighting is available in all fields except FEAT, SEQ, and VER. Highlighting must be on in order to
use the HIT, KWIC, and OCC formats.
Format
AU
CI
CONT
DATE
DEF
FEAT

Content

ExamplesAuthorClass Identifier (Molecule Type, Division Code)Contiguous Sequence
Date
Definition
Feature (tabular display of Feature Key,
Location, and Qualifier)
GenBank Accession Number
Locus
Organism Name
Other Source
Genome Project Identifier
CAS Registry Number
Sequence
SourceSequence Length
OriginSupplementary Term
Title

D L4 1-4 AU
D CI 1,3-5
D CONTD DATE 5-10
D 1-3,7,8 DEF
D FEATD ALL
D IDE 3-5

SQIDE
(IDE)

LOC, GBN, VER, RN, SQL, CI, DATE, DEF, ST, Source (ORGN), PJID, SRT,
Comments, Reference (AU, TI, SO, OS), FEAT, SEQ, CONT (ALL is thedefault)
Sequence Identifying Fields(LOC, GBN, VER, RN, SQL, PJID, DEF, FEAT, SEQ, CONT)

HIT
KWIC
OCC (1)

Fields containing hit terms
Hit terms with 20 words on either side (KeyWord In Context)
Number of occurrences of hit terms and fields in which they occur

D L3 HITD KWIC 2 NOH
D OCC

GBN (1,2)
LOC
ORGN
OS
PJID
RN
SEQ
SO
SQL
SRT
ST (KW)
TI (1)ALL

D GBN 1-5
D L1 LOC 3
D 1,3,6 ORGN L5
D OS
D PJIDD RN 2
D L8 SEQ 1-3
D 1,4 SO
D L1 SQLD SRTD ST L1 4
D TI 3,4 TOTAL(1) No online display fee for this format.
(2) For more information on the GenBank VERSION, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/sequenceIDs.html

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SELECT, ANALYZE, and SORT Fields
The SELECT command is used to create E-numbers containing terms taken from the specified field in ananswer set.
The ANALYZE command is used to create an L-number containing terms taken from the specified field in ananswer set.
The SORT command is used to rearrange the search results in either alphabetic or numeric order of thespecified field(s).
Field Name
Author
CAS Registry Number
Class Identifier
Contiguous Sequence
Date
Definition
FeatureGenBank Accession Number
Genome Project Identifier
Journal Title
Keyword
Locus
Occurrence of Hit Terms
Organism Name
Other Source
Publication Year
Sequence Length
Supplementary Term
Title

Field CodeANALYZE/
SELECT (1)

SORT

AU
RN
CI
CONT
DATE
DEF
FEAT
GBN
PJID
JT
KW
LOC
OCC
ORGN
OS
PY
SQL
ST
TI

Y
Y (2)
Y
Y (3)
Y
Y
Y (4)
Y (default)
Y
Y (4)
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y (4)
N
Y
Y

N
Y
N
N
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
N
N
Y
Y
Y
N
N
Y
N
N

(1) HIT may be used to restrict terms extracted to terms that match the search expression used to create the answer set, e.g., SEL HIT
RN.
(2) Appends /BI to the terms created by SELECT.
(3) Selects GBN and appends /CONT to the terms created by SELECT.
(4) SELECT HIT and ANALYZE HIT are not valid with this field.

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Sample Records
DISPLAY ALL
LOCUS (LOC):
BE185916
GenBank (R)GenBank ACC. NO. (GBN): BE185916
GenBank VERSION (VER): BE185916.1
CAS REGISTRY NO. (RN): 274642-22-7
SEQUENCE LENGTH (SQL): 401
MOLECULE TYPE (CI):mRNA; linear
DIVISION CODE (CI):
Expressed sequence tag
DATE (DATE):
10 May 2010
DEFINITION (DEF):
IL5-HT0731-120500-088-d12 HT0731 Homo sapiens cDNA,mRNA sequence.
KEYWORDS (ST):EST
SOURCE:
Homo sapiens (human)
ORGANISM (ORGN):
Homo sapiens
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata;
Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires;
Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo
COMMENT:
Contact: Simpson A.J.G.
Laboratory of Cancer Genetics
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Rua Prof. Antonio Prudente 109, 4 andar, 01509-010, Sao Paulo-SP,
BrazilTel: +55-11-2704922
Fax: +55-11-2707001
Email: asimpson@ludwig.org.br
This sequence was derived from the FAPESP/LICR Human Cancer Genome
Project. This entry can be seen in the following URL(http://www.ludwig.org.br/scripts/gethtml2.pl?t1=&t2=IL5-HT0731-120
500-088-d12&t3=2000-05-12&t4=1)
Seq primer: puc 18 forward
High quality sequence stop: 361.
REFERENCE:
1 (bases 1 to 401)
AUTHOR (AU):Dias Neto,E.; Garcia Correa,R.; Verjovski-Almeida,S.;
Briones,M.R.; Nagai,M.A.; da Silva,W. Jr.; Zago,M.A.;
Bordin,S.; Costa,F.F.; Goldman,G.H.; Carvalho,A.F.;
Matsukuma,A.; Baia,G.S.; Simpson,D.H.; Brunstein,A.;
deOliveira,P.S.; Bucher,P.; Jongeneel,C.V.;
O'Hare,M.J.; Soares,F.; Brentani,R.R.; Reis,L.F.; deSouza,S.J.; Simpson,A.J.
TITLE (TI):
Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF
expressed sequence tags
JOURNAL (SO):Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 97 (7), 3491-3496 (2000)
OTHER SOURCE (OS):CA 132:261298
FEATURES (FEAT):
Feature Key
Location
Qualifier===============+=======================+==================================
source1..401/organism="Homo sapiens"/mol-type="mRNA"/db-xref="taxon:9606"/dev-stage="Adult"/clone-lib="HT0731"/note="Organ: head-neck; Vector:
puc18; Site-1: SmaI; Site-2: SmaI;
A mini-library was made by cloning
products derived from ORESTES PCR(U.S. Letters Patent application
No. 196,716 - Ludwig Institutefor Cancer Research) profiles into
the pUC 18 vector. Reverse
transcription of tissue mRNA andcDNA amplification were performed
under low stringency conditions."
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GENBANKDISPLAY ALL (cont'd)
SEQUENCE (SEQ):
1 ccccctcccc gggtattcaa ggtccagcga gagctcaccg gacgccgccg gaaccgcgac
61 gctttccaag gcgggggccc ctctcacggg gcgaacccat tccagggcgc cctgcccttc
121 acaaagaaaa gagaactctc cccggggctc ccgccggctt ttccgggatc ggtcgcgtta
181 ccgcactgga cgcctcgcgg ggcccatctc cgccactccg gattcgggga tctgaacccg
241 actccctttc gatcggccga gggcaacgga ggccatcgcc cgtcccttcg gaacggcgct
301 cgcccatctc tcaggaccga ctgacccatg ttcaactgct gttcacatgg aacccttctc
361 cactgtggcc ttcaaggtct cgtttgaata tttgctacta c
DISPLAY ALL (CONTIG RECORD)
LOCUS (LOC):
AE005172
GenBank (R)GenBank ACC. NO. (GBN): AE005172
GenBank VERSION (VER): AE005172.1
SEQUENCE LENGTH (SQL): 14221815
MOLECULE TYPE (CI):
DNA; linear
DIVISION CODE (CI):
Contiguous sequences
DATE (DATE):
5 Mar 2010
DEFINITION (DEF):
Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 1 top arm, completesequence.
SOURCE:
Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)
ORGANISM (ORGN):
Arabidopsis thaliana
Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Embryophyta;
Tracheophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta;
eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; rosids; malvids;
Brassicales; Brassicaceae; Arabidopsis
REFERENCE:
1 (bases 1 to 14221815)
AUTHOR (AU):
Theologis,A.; Ecker,J.R.; Palm,C.J.; Federspiel,N.A.;
Kaul,S.; White,O.; Alonso,J.; Altaf,H.; Araujo,R.;
Bowman,C.L.; Brooks,S.Y.; Buehler,E.; Chan,A.; Chao,Q.;
Chen,H.; Cheuk,R.F.; Chin,C.W.; Chung,M.K.; Conn,L.;
Conway,A.B.; Conway,A.R.; Creasy,T.H.; Dewar,K.;
Dunn,P.; Etgu,P.; Feldblyum,T.V.; Feng,J.; Fong,B.;
Fujii,C.Y.; Gill,J.E.; Goldsmith,A.D.; Haas,B.;
Hansen,N.F.; Hughes,B.; Huizar,L.; Hunter,J.L.;
Jenkins,J.; Johnson-Hopson,C.; Khan,S.; Khaykin,E.;
Kim,C.J.; Koo,H.L.; Kremenetskaia,I.; Kurtz,D.B.;
Kwan,A.; Lam,B.; Langin-Hooper,S.; Lee,A.; Lee,J.M.;
Lenz,C.A.; Li,J.H.; Li,Y.; Lin,X.; Liu,S.X.; Liu,Z.A.;
Luros,J.S.; Maiti,R.; Marziali,A.; Militscher,J.;
Miranda,M.; Nguyen,M.; Nierman,W.C.; Osborne,B.I.;
Pai,G.; Peterson,J.; Pham,P.K.; Rizzo,M.; Rooney,T.;
Rowley,D.; Sakano,H.; Salzberg,S.L.; Schwartz,J.R.;
Shinn,P.; Southwick,A.M.; Sun,H.; Tallon,L.J.;
Tambunga,G.; Toriumi,M.J.; Town,C.D.; Utterback,T.; vanAken,S.; Vaysberg,M.; Vysotskaia,V.S.; Walker,M.;
Wu,D.; Yu,G.; Fraser,C.M.; Venter,J.C.; Davis,R.W.
TITLE (TI):
Sequence and analysis of chromosome 1 of the plant
Arabidopsis thaliana
JOURNAL (SO):Nature, 408 (6814), 816-820 (2000)
OTHER SOURCE (OS):CA 134:142622
REFERENCE:
2 (bases 1 to 14221815)
TITLE (TI):
Direct Submission
JOURNAL (SO):
Submitted (30-NOV-2000) USDA, Plant Gene Expression
Center, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710, USA
FEATURES (FEAT):
Feature Key
Location
Qualifier===============+=======================+==================================
source1..14221815/organism="Arabidopsis thaliana"/mol-type="genomic DNA"/db-xref="taxon:3702"/chromosome="1"/map="top arm"
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GENBANKDISPLAY ALL (CONTIG RECORD) (cont'd)
CONTIG (CONT):
join(AC074298.1:1..298,AC007323.5:1..86293,
AC023628.3:27500..103801,AC061957.3:1..65931,AC009273.2:1..76158,
AC020622.3:184..47033,U89959.1:2161..55372,AC064879.3:1..91184,
complement(AC022521.4:24628..121668),
complement(AC009525.3:5320..99266),
complement(AC006550.2:201..78341),complement(AC005278.1:49..71097),
AC002560.2:153..100786,complement(AC003027.1:7674..119914),
complement(AC002411.1:201..76670),
complement(AC000104.1:202..107527),
complement(AC002376.1:176..100079),
complement(AC004809.1:201..89688),
complement(AC005322.2:301..53958),
complement(AC000098.1:7625..99300),AC005106.2:1..50549,
AC007153.2:1..103023,AC009999.2:1..79494,AC024174.2:141..74116,
AC025290.3:1..47000,AC068143.4:1..40700,
complement(AC007592.4:6667..91310),
complement(AC011001.2:5001..87752),
complement(AC067971.5:301..111464),
complement(AC022464.4:5570..102799),
complement(AC007583.2:1127..106740),AC026875.4:1..98313,
AC011438.3:337..86879,AC006932.8:9796..84046,
AC003981.2:1131..132082,complement(AC000106.1:200..109000),
complement(AC003114.1:201..59261),AC006416.2:1..16349,
AC003970.1:1..94717,AC000132.1:1..142870,AC004122.1:1299..67566,
AC005489.1:2613..100184,AC007067.4:912..80882,AC009398.6:1..45074,
complement(AC007354.3:541..70116),
complement(U95973.1:7053..113539),
complement(AC007259.4:661..97146),AC011661.5:2004..84454,
complement(AC007296.2:4..91566),
complement(AC002131.1:30741..123189),
complement(AC022522.2:1850..88643),AC025416.4:1..80226,
AC025417.4:1244..104024,AC012187.3:501..74128,AC007357.2:1..96834,
AC011810.8:2256..47626,AC027134.4:320..79579,
AC027656.4:2895..78854,AC068197.4:1..33265,AC007576.3:1054..111971,
AC012188.2:1..96128,AC010657.3:2522..69491,AC006917.6:1..128999,
AC012189.3:1..23452,AC007591.2:1..113730,AC013453.1:1575..90801,
AC034256.3:1..77321,AC010924.2:1..80370,AC006341.2:129..102073,
complement(AC011808.4:26955..91593),
complement(AC026237.4:45663..89231),
complement(AC051629.3:36135..92359),
complement(AC007651.2:201..111938),
complement(AC026479.2:121..7604),
complement(AC007843.6:69357..84894),AC022492.5:1..77194,
AC034257.3:3214..98750,AC034106.4:1..74933,AC034107.5:1..15613,
AC069551.4:918..74571,complement(AC013354.6:202..93434),
complement(AC026238.2:202..44879),
complement(AC011809.2:4124..108767),AC068602.2:616..85435,
AC069143.3:1..58638,AC025808.8:2401..107871,
complement(AC024609.2:59677..87774),
complement(AC007797.7:2438..119942),
complement(AC022472.2:19..91657),complement(AC026234.4:1..53707),
complement(AC027665.4:54270..99031),AC069251.5:846..135378,
complement(AC007369.2:201..102951),complement(AC012190.3:7..68986),
complement(AC036104.3:201..55513),AC015447.8:1..98794,
AC007727.2:1..83459,AC013482.2:1..78411,AC069252.4:1..91625,
complement(AC073942.2:201..36030),complement(AC068562.4:1..40951),
complement(AC006551.6:10458..107000),
complement(AC003979.2:201..81654),
complement(AF000657.1:6238..91949),
complement(AC002311.1:26463..85855),AC005292.4:553..73552,
AC007945.3:1088..33616,AC005990.1:3926..99722,AC002423.3:1..95168,
AC002396.1:1..119878,AC000103.2:1393..86313,
complement(AC004133.3:14385..105863),AC079374.3:1..95393,
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GENBANKDISPLAY ALL (CONTIG RECORD) (cont'd)complement(AC079281.2:713..97794),AC084221.5:9952..32028,
complement(AC079829.4:4202..95064),
complement(AC013427.3:201..86912),AC006535.7:1..91845,
AC005508.1:1..66454,AC000348.2:1..101482,AC004557.2:3733..99490,
AC005916.2:1..32413,AC012375.3:1..83614,AC079280.2:687..43073,
AC069471.2:333..109661,complement(AC021044.5:7373..121720),
complement(AC010155.3:10371..104163),
complement(AC007508.2:23480..100661),
complement(AC021043.4:5817..154716),AC068667.4:1..125800,
complement(AC079288.2:19523..35930),
complement(AC008030.4:16101..95204),AC022455.3:761..76832,
complement(AC074176.3:6187..72058),AC073506.9:1..54663,
complement(AC025295.5:561..81393),AC009917.2:7177..75599,
AC007060.3:1..96183,AC004135.1:1001..66731,
complement(AC000107.2:195..102393),AC004793.2:1..74699,
AC007654.2:4053..78347,AC027135.4:452..34231,
complement(AC074360.4:9773..107856),
complement(AC079041.4:23584..119420),
complement(AC074309.2:4457..75298),
complement(AC084165.1:5448..89759),AC084110.3:1..17502,
AC007767.3:1..125817,AC055769.2:3031..33100,AC017118.3:4218..90584,
AC006424.5:1..87844,AC021045.2:1121..58691,AC027035.3:2428..52789,
AC051630.2:1..88779,complement(AC069299.2:5628..34135),
complement(AC010164.2:26470..103443),
complement(AC022288.3:18024..80309),
complement(AC015446.4:10619..124578),
complement(AC007454.3:7849..88070),
complement(AC023913.5:32867..82214),
complement(AC023279.2:21379..117585),
complement(AC007894.2:38291..85653),
complement(AC018460.2:23820..110438),
complement(AC079605.11:3103..104807),AC069160.5:1..97088,
complement(AC023064.3:7412..63489),
complement(AC007887.9:201..158096),AC021198.2:1..76151,
AC027032.7:1..88767,complement(AC021666.3:35709..90659),
AC006228.5:1..104600,AC025781.6:7795..111630,AC079278.1:1..1225,
AC021199.5:1..68211,complement(AC007918.2:8315..115963),
AC025782.5:1..91841,AC079028.10:1..11182,AC068901.6:1..69032,
complement(AC020646.2:22118..103931),
complement(AC007505.4:1..134499))

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