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1982: GenBank Database Formed

Collage image of dataprocessing equipment

GenBank, NIH’s publicly accessible genetic sequence database, was formed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Scientists submit DNA sequence data from a wide range of organisms to GenBank; researchers routinely retrieve and analyze the data in the archive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last Updated: April 17, 2009