RefSeq release 86 is now accessible online, via FTP and through NCBI’s programming utilities. This full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data available, as of January 8, 2018 and contains 149,493,466 records, including 102,133,844 proteins, 21,370,778 RNAs, and sequences from 75,218 organisms. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and as divided by logical groupings.
Two important notes follow; please see the RefSeq release notes for more information.
Non-human SNP data dropped
Non-human SNPs were dropped from all RefSeq FTP files in the daily FTP files starting in December 2017, and in this full release (January 2018).
HPRD features removed
We have dropped a set of features, originally imported from HPRD, from human transcript and protein RefSeq records.
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