GenBankFlatfile
GenBankFlatfile is a text-based format used to store and exchange biological sequence data, including nucleotide and protein sequences, as well as their annotations. It is a widely used standard in bioinformatics and molecular biology, maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The format is designed to be both human-readable and machine-readable, making it suitable for both manual inspection and automated processing.
Each GenBankFlatfile entry consists of several sections, each starting with a specific keyword followed by a
The FEATURES section is particularly important, as it contains detailed information about the sequence's structure and
GenBankFlatfile entries are typically accessed through the NCBI's online databases, such as GenBank and RefSeq, where