Molecular Biosciences Virtual Library

Entrez Genome Project

A new database, Genome Project, has been added to the Entrez home page
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/).
Entrez Genome Project is a companion database to Entrez Genome. The actual data from genome sequencing projects are contained in Entrez Genome (as complete genomes chromosomes) and Entrez Nucleotide (as chromosome or genome fragments such as contigs). The Genome Project database, on the other hand, provides an umbrella view of the status of each genome project, links to project data in the other Entrez databases, and links to a variety of other NCBI and external resources associated with a given genome project. A genome project's status can be complete or in-progress, and the project can include large-scale sequencing, assembly, annotation, and mapping efforts. New genome sequencing projects can be registered through the Genome project submission form. More information about the submission of data from complete genomes is provided in the Resource Guide section on Submission of complete genomes. (Although the Entrez Genome Project database does not include viral genome sequencing projects, data from those projects are submitted to GenBank and are available in the Entrez Nucleotide and Entrez Genome databases. There is also a special set of resources at NCBI dedicated to Viral Genomes.)