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Are you a GenBank submitter? Do you use BankIt or the GenBank app in the NCBI Submission Portal to submit your sequences? Or do you split your data between the two systems?

Starting this spring, you will be able to complete all GenBank submissions in the portal! The Submission Portal GenBank will support data types that you currently submit through BankIt. You will no longer need to use BankIt, which will be phased out.

What is changing?

We are enhancing your submission experience by transitioning workflows from BankIt to the Submission Portal, creating a single-entry point for all your GenBank web submissions. Our modern and streamlined interface will offer: Continue reading “BankIt Submitters: Upcoming Changes to How You Submit to GenBank” →

Do you submit eukaryotic nuclear mRNA sequences to GenBank? A new mRNA submission wizard is available! Built on the modern Submission Portal framework, this new wizard will bring you an enhanced experience, including:

- Guided submission experience specific for mRNA sequences
- Automated trimming of vector and removal of short sequences
- Easier input for source metadata
- New feature annotation web forms for coding region (CDS) and untranslated region (5’ UTR, 3’ UTR)
- Extensive feature previews (Figure 1)
- Faster sequence processing and accession assignment
- Access to a fix error workflow prior to accession assignment

Watch a short video (4 min) to see how to annotate CDS features in this new wizard! Continue reading “New wizard for submitting mRNA sequences to GenBank” →