Check out RefSeq release 224, now available online and from the FTP site. You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets.

What’s included in this release?

As of May 6, 2024, this full release incorporates genomic, transcript, and protein data containing:

• 435,879,646 records
• 324,246,652 proteins
• 62,348,147 RNAs
• Sequences from 150,742 organisms

The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as divided by logical groupings.

New primate genome annotations

This release contains new annotations for 6 primate assemblies from the T2T Primate Consortium:

• Chimpanzee, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mPanTro3-v2.0_pri (GCF_028858775.2-RS_2024_02) 
• Pygmy chimpanzee, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mPanPan1-v2.0_pri (GCF_029289425.2-RS_2024_02) (pictured)
• Bornean orangutan, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mPonPyg2-v2.0_pri (GCF_028885625.2-RS_2024_02) 
• Sumatran orangutan, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mPonAbe1-v2.0_pri (GCF_028885655.2-RS_2024_02) 
• Western lowland gorilla, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mGorGor1-v2.0_pri (GCF_029281585.2-RS_2024_02) 
• Siamang, based on T2T assembly NHGRI_mSymSyn1-v2.0_pri (GCF_028878055.2-RS_2024_02) 

Other new eukaryotic genome annotations

This release contains new annotations generated by NCBI’s eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline for 41 additional species, including:

• Ma’s night monkey, based on new assembly 86718_ANA_hifiasm-v0.15.2.pri (GCF_030222135.1-RS_2024_04)
• Coelacanth, based on new assembly fLatCha1.pri (GCF_037176945.1-RS_2024_04)
• Red flour beetle, based on new assembly icTriCast1.1 (GCF_031307605.1-RS_2024_04)
• Parnell’s mustached bat, based on new assembly CSHL_Meso_final (GCF_021234165.1-RS_2024_03)
• Carrot, based on updated assembly DH1_v3.0 (GCF_001625215.2-RS_2024_03)

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