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Open GenBank Files

v2.2 · Sep 6, 2021 · GPL-3

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Opens complete record(s) with .gb extension from the NCBI/GenBank Nucleotide database and returns a list containing shaped record(s). These kind of files contains detailed records of DNA samples (locus, organism, type of sequence, source of the sequence...). An example of record can be found at <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/HE799070>.

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new 2.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.2 ← 2.0.1 diff Sep 5, 2021
updated 2.0.1 ← 1.6 diff May 13, 2020
new 1.6 Nov 25, 2018