NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq): current status, new features and genome annotation policy

Pruitt, K. D.; Tatusova, T.; Brown, G. R.; Maglott, D. R.

doi:10.1093/nar/gkr1079

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq): current status, new features and genome annotation policy

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database is a collection of genomic, transcript and protein sequence records. These records are selected and curated from public sequence archives and represent a significant reduction in redundancy compared to t…