Dear GenBank Users,

Processing for the GenBank Incremental Update (GIU) and for GenBank WGS
data products was moved to new hardware on Thursday, September 11.

Unfortunately, some configuration files that were used during previous
tests of the new hardware were *not* updated with the files from the
production system.

This led to the creation of unnecessarily large GIU files on September
12
(nc0912), containing records that date back to (at least) August 10th.

The affected 0912 GIU files had these timestamps and sizes:

-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 30892117 Sep 12 04:44
con_nc.0912.flat.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 533951491 Sep 12 04:31 nc0912.flat.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 317692100 Sep 12 04:37 nc0912.fsa_nt.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 34925179 Sep 12 04:10 nc0912.fsa.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 60205075 Sep 12 04:10 nc0912.gnp.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gbupdate gbproces 92824768 Sep 12 04:14 nc0912.qscore.gz

[Apologies, the initial announcement was interpreted as an attachment.
Re-sending because the listserv might not handle it gracefully.]

Greetings GenBank Users,

GenBank Release 167.0 is now available via FTP from the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):

Ftp Site Directory Contents
---------------- --------- ---------------------------------------
ftp.ncbi.nih.gov genbank GenBank Release 167.0 flatfiles
ncbi-asn1 ASN.1 data used to create Release 167.0

Close-of-data for GenBank 167.0 occured on 08/19/2008. Uncompressed, the
Release 167.0 flatfiles require roughly 357 GB (sequence files only)
or 381 GB (including the 'short directory', 'index' and the *.txt files).
The ASN.1 data require approximately 326 GB.

Recent statistics for non-WGS, non-CON sequences:

Release Date Base Pairs Entries

166 Jun 2008 92008611867 88554578
167 Aug 2008 95033791652 92748599

Recent statistics for WGS sequences:

Release Date Base Pairs Entries

Greetings GenBank Users,

Close-of-data for the upcoming GenBank Release 167.0 occurred on
Tuesday August 19 at approximately 1:30am ET.

The subsequently generated GenBank Incremental Update files
nc0819.aso, nc0819,flat, etc. contain data through the close.

Note: Release processing often does not begin until sometime during
business hours on the close date. As a result, a number of sequence
records processed *after* 1:30am are likely to be present in the
GenBank 167.0 release files, even though they are "post-close" .

Similarly, the first GenBank Incremental Update that is generated
after the close date is likely to contain a number of sequence
records that are unchanged, compared to their appearance in the
release files.

Our apologies for the lack of advanced notice about the close date.

Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS

Wow 200 billion nucleotides! I remember when we celebrated 1 Billion nucleotides!

Good work all the folks at the NCBI - good way to celebrate 25 years!

Cheers,

f.

[Apologies for the double-post : The contents of my original post
about Release 166.0 availability will be interpreted as an
attachment under some circumstances...]

Greetings GenBank Users,

GenBank Release 166.0 is now available via FTP from the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):

Ftp Site Directory Contents
---------------- --------- ---------------------------------------
ftp.ncbi.nih.gov genbank GenBank Release 166.0 flatfiles
ncbi-asn1 ASN.1 data used to create Release 166.0

Close-of-data for GenBank 166.0 occured on 06/11/2008. Uncompressed, the
Release 166.0 flatfiles require roughly 343 GB (sequence files only)
or 366 GB (including the 'short directory', 'index' and the *.txt files).
The ASN.1 data require approximately 314 GB.

Recent statistics for non-WGS, non-CON sequences:

Release Date Base Pairs Entries

165 Apr 2008 89172350468 85500730
166 Jun 2008 92008611867 88554578

Recent statistics for WGS sequences:

Greetings GenBank Users,

Close-of-data for the upcoming GenBank Release 166.0 occurred on
Wednesday June 11 at approximately 1:30am ET.

The subsequently generated GenBank Incremental Update files
nc0611.aso, nc0611,flat, etc. contain data through the close.

Note: Release processing often does not begin until sometime during
business hours on the close date. As a result, a number of sequence
records processed *after* 1:30am are likely to be present in the
GenBank 166.0 release files, even though they are "post-close" .

Similarly, the first GenBank Incremental Update that is generated
after the close date is likely to contain a number of sequence
records that are unchanged, compared to their appearance in the
release files.

Our apologies for the lack of advanced notice about the close date.

Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS

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Greetings GenBank Users,

GenBank Release 165.0 is now available via FTP from the National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):

Ftp Site Directory Contents
---------------- --------- ---------------------------------------
ftp.ncbi.nih.gov genbank GenBank Release 165.0 flatfiles
ncbi-asn1 ASN.1 data used to create Release 165.0

Close-of-data for GenBank 165.0 occured on 04/15/2008. Uncompressed, the
Release 165.0 flatfiles require roughly 332 GB (sequence files only)
or 353 GB (including the 'short directory', 'index' and the *.txt files).
The ASN.1 data require approximately 305 GB.

Recent statistics for non-WGS, non-CON sequences:

Release Date Base Pairs Entries

164 Feb 2008 85759586764 82853685
165 Apr 2008 89172350468 85500730

Recent statistics for WGS sequences:

Release Date Base Pairs Entries

164 Feb 2008 108635736141 27439206
165 Apr 2008 110500961400 26931049