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Create and Query a Local Copy of 'GenBank' in R

v2.1.5 · Mar 6, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Download large sections of 'GenBank' <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/> and generate a local SQL-based database. A user can then query this database using 'restez' functions or through 'rentrez' <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rentrez> wrappers.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
WARNING 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
WARNING r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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cannot open the connection
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problems found in ‘connection_get.Rd’, ‘count_db_ids.Rd’, ‘db_create.Rd’
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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies rentrez DBI curl cli crayon stringi duckdb fs assertthat ape restez

Version History

6 tracked
new 2.1.5 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.1.5 ← 2.1.4 diff Mar 6, 2025
updated 2.1.4 ← 2.1.3 diff Oct 24, 2023
updated 2.1.3 ← 2.1.2 diff Nov 10, 2022
updated 2.1.2 ← 1.0.0 diff Sep 4, 2022
new 1.0.0 Nov 25, 2018