WHAT IS GENBANK? GenBank ® is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences (_Nucleic Acids Research_, 2013 Jan;41(D1):D36-42). GenBank is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), and GenBank at NCBI. These three organizations exchange data on a daily ... Read more

The elaborate system of classification of the bacteria into families,tribes and genera by a Committee on Characterization and Classification of the Society of American Bacteriologists (1911, 1920) has made it very desirable to be able to place in the hands of students a more detailed key for the identification of species than any that is available at present. The valuable ... Read more