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<p><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"><font size="5">History</font></span></p>
<p>[[Walter Goad ]] of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory ([[LANL]]) and others established the Los Alamos Sequence Database in 1979, which culminated in 1982 with the creation of the public GenBank funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. LANL collaborated on GenBank with the firm Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, and by the end of 1983 more than 2,000 sequences were stored in it.</p>
<p>In the mid 1980s, the Intelligenetics bioinformatics company at Stanford University managed the GenBank project in collaboration with LANL. As one of the earliest bioinformatics community projects on the Internet, the GenBank project started BIOSCI/Bionet news groups for promoting open access communications among bioscientists. During 1989 to 1992, the GenBank project transitioned to the newly created National Center for Biotechnology Information.</p>
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<p><img height="395" alt="Growth in GenBank base pairs, 1982 to 2007" width="500" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Growth_of_Genbank.svg/500px-Growth_of_Genbank.svg.png" /></p>
<p>The GenBank database includes additional data sets which are constructed mechanically from the main sequence data collection, and therefore are excluded from this count.</p>
<p><a id="See_also" name="See_also"><br /a></p><h2p><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"><font size="5">See also</font></span></h2p>
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<li>Ensembl </li>
<li>List of sequenced archeal genomes </li>
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<p><a id="References" name="References"><br /a></p><h2p><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"><font size="5">References</font></span></h2p>
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<li>Walter Goad, GenBank founder, obituary </li>
<li><cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal">Benton, D. <em>et al.</em> (2006). "GenBank". <em>Nucleic Acids Research</em> <strong>34</strong> (Database): D16-D20.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=GenBank&rft.jtitle=Nucleic+Acids+Research&rft.date=2006&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=Database&rft.au=Benton%2C+D.+%27%27et+al.%27%27&rft.pages=D16-D20&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnar.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F34%2Fsuppl_1%2FD16"> </span> </li>
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<p><a id="External_links" name="External_links"><br /a></p><h2p><span class="editsection"></span><span class="mw-headline"><font size="5">External links</font></span></h2p>
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<li>GenBank </li>
<li>Emboss </li>
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<li><em>This article contains material text from the</em> NCBI Handbook <em>published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.</em> </li>
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