The hunt for an AIDS vaccine has lasted 30 years, with many failures. 1 The fact that the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) virus continuously adapts and mutates results in broad genetic ...

What is the most important research tool in biology paid for by taxpayers that they don't know exists? It might be GenBank, the open-access database maintained by the National Institutes of Health, ...

The note from each release of GenBank reveal the total number of nucleotides submitted to the database. This graph uses one data point from each year to show the exponential growth rate of nucleotide ...

The number of database resources that organize and display the data are also increasing rapidly. The rise is concurrent. This figure shows the number of base pairs deposited in GenBank from December ...