@article{af8ab9c55f9843498938e44b199157bb,
title = "Sequence databases: an indispensible source for biotechnological research",
abstract = "The current status of the nucleic acid and protein sequence databases and their importance for the development of a potent biotechnological infrastructure is described. The basic technological background for the data collection and data distribution services are elucidated.",
keywords = "Database in biology, Nucleic acid sequence, Protein sequence, Sequence data collection, Sequence data distribution",
author = "Mewes, \{H. W.\} and R. Doelz and George, \{D. G.\}",
note = "Funding Information: In 1980, the EMBL established a collection of nucleic acid sequence data in order to cope with the rapidly growing volume of data generated by application of DNA sequencing techniques. Shortly thereafter, the American GenBank project was initiated (Burks et al., 1992). Originally, this project was administrated by contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH): first to Bolt, Beranek, and Newman from 1982-1987 and then to Intelligenetics from 1987-1992. Data compilation and processing was conducted at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The primary contractors distributed the data and served as the principal interface to the scientific community. This GenBank project is currently administered by the NCBI (Benson, 1991). The European and American nucleic acid sequence databanks are operated independently but data are shared; as a result, the data in the two collections overlap almost completely. Different strategies in database management are employed at the two centers, however, and the data are distributed by these centers in different formats.",
year = "1994",
month = jun,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1016/0168-1656(94)90039-6",
language = "English",
volume = "35",
pages = "239--256",
journal = "Journal of Biotechnology",
issn = "0168-1656",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "2-3",
}