Greetings GenBank Users,
Close-of-data for the upcoming GenBank Release 174.0 occurred on
Friday October 16 2009 at approximately 1:30am EDT.
The subsequently generated GenBank Incremental Update files
nc1016.aso, nc1016.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 174.0 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.
We expect to make the GenBank 174.0 data files available sometime
later today.
Our apologies for the lack of advanced notice about the close date.
Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS
