Parameter: Genbank_accession

Dataset: 
Gulf of Alaska copepods: annotated transcriptomes
Parameter: 
NCBI Genbank nucleotide accession
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 Genbank_accession
Short Description:
 NCBI Genbank nucleotide accession
Official Name:
 Genbank_accession
No Data Value:
Description:
 

Genbank nucleotide database accession identifier. Genbank is a genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42).  Genbank is a part of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH.

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
Genbank_accession
Supplied Units: 
unitless
Datatype: 
String
Conversion Necessary: 
no
Conversion Utility: 
No Data Value: 
Description: 
NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Accession number for nucleotide sequence in the Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Sequence Database. The accession number is a unique identifier assigned to a record in the sequence database GenBank at NCBI. It is of the format [alphabetical prefix][series of digits].[version]. A change in the record is tracked by an integer extension of the accession number, an Accession.version identifier. The initial version of a sequence has the extension ".1".