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Jul 06, 2011
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GenBank release 184.0 is now available here via FTP from the National Center for Biotechnology Information. It contains data as of June 29. The new release comprises approximately 129 gigabases and 140 million entries from non-WGS, non-CON sequences and 200 gigabases and 64 million entries from WGS sequences. Uncompressed, the release requires about 506 gigabases for sequence files only. The ASN.1 data require about 416 gigabases.

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