Greetings GenBank Users,
Close-of-data for the upcoming GenBank Release 194.0 occurred
Wednesday February 13th, at approximately 1:30am EST.
The subsequently generated GenBank Incremental Update files
nc0213.aso, nc0213.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 194.0 release files, even though they are "post-close" .
Similarly, the first GenBank Incremental Update 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.
We had hoped to make the GenBank 194.0 data files available on
Friday February 15th, but a problem with one of the database dumps
pushed that date back a day. We expect to make the data files
available on the evening of Saturday Feb 16th.
Our apologies for the lack of advance notice about the close date.
Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS
