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The GenBank sequence database continues to expand its data coverage, quality control, annotation content and retrieval services for the scientific community. Besides handling direct submissions of sequence data from authors, GenBank also incorporates DNA sequences from all available public sources; an integrated retrieval system, known as Entrez, also makes available data from the major protein sequence and structural databases, and from U.S. and European patents. MIDLINE abstracts from published articles describing the sequences are also included as an additional source of biological annotation for sequence entries. GenBank supports distribution of the data via FTP, CD-ROM, and E-mail servers. Network server-client programs provide access to an integrated database for literature retrieval and sequence similarity searching.
GenBank序列数据库不断扩大其数据覆盖范围、质量控制、注释内容及面向科学界的检索服务。除了处理作者直接提交的序列数据外,GenBank还整合了来自所有可用公共资源的DNA序列;一个名为Entrez的集成检索系统还提供来自主要蛋白质序列和结构数据库以及美国和欧洲专利的数据。描述这些序列的已发表文章的MIDLINE摘要也作为序列条目的生物注释的额外来源被纳入。GenBank支持通过FTP、光盘和电子邮件服务器分发数据。网络服务器-客户端程序提供对用于文献检索和序列相似性搜索的集成数据库的访问。