Improved Influenza GenBank submission process

Do you submit flu sequences to GenBank? Thanks to community feedback, NCBI is excited to announce that we are improving the influenza GenBank submission process. We continue to play a key role in providing the biomedical community free and easy access to genome sequences from viruses. To further advance public health research, in the coming weeks we will begin to expedite the release of influenza data. This means you will see the rapid assignment of accession numbers and data becoming publicly accessible within hours. In addition, we will automatically process all Influenza genomes to produce standardized, consistent annotation which saves you time and benefits the researchers who find your data valuable.

You can access GenBank virus sequences, annotations, and metadata for all viruses in our archive, including Influenza A, B, and C, via NCBI Virus.

We expect this improvement to aid in using genomic sequences relevant to public health, such as those obtained from the surveillance of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) surveillance on dairy cattle farms.

Submit your data

Do you have highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) sequences? Consider contributing your data to GenBank. Check out our help documentation to get started.

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