Editing GenBank (section)

==Growth==
[[Image:Growth of Genbank.svg|thumb|Growth in GenBank base pairs, 1982 to 2018, on a [[semilog graph|semi-log scale]]]]
The GenBank [[release notes]] for release 250.0 (June 2022) state that "from 1982 to the present, the number of bases in GenBank has doubled approximately every 18 months".<ref name="ReleaseNotes">{{cite web |date=15 June 2022 |title=GenBank release notes (Release 250) |url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/gbrel.txt |access-date=20 July 2022 |publisher=NCBI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal 
| last1 = Benson | first1 = D. A. 
| last2 = Cavanaugh | first2 = M. 
| last3 = Clark | first3 = K. 
| last4 = Karsch-Mizrachi | first4 = I. 
| last5 = Lipman | first5 = D. J. 
| last6 = Ostell | first6 = J. 
| last7 = Sayers | first7 = E. W. 
| doi = 10.1093/nar/gks1195 
| title = GenBank 
| journal = Nucleic Acids Research 
| volume = 41 
| issue = Database issue 
| pages = D36–D42 
| year = 2012 
| pmid = 23193287 
| pmc =3531190 
}}</ref> As of 15 June 2022, GenBank release 250.0 has over 239 million [[Locus (genetics)|loci]], 1,39 trillion nucleotide bases, from 239 million reported sequences.<ref name="ReleaseNotes" />

The GenBank database includes additional data sets that are constructed mechanically from the main sequence data collection, and therefore are excluded from this count. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Top 20 organisms in GenBank (Release 250)<ref name="ReleaseNotes" />
! Organism
! [[base pairs]]
|- 
| ''[[Common wheat|Triticum aestivum]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|215443744183}}
|-
|[[SARS-CoV-2]]
| align="middle" | {{Nts|165771825746}}
|-
|''[[Barley|Hordeum vulgare]]'' subsp. ''vulgare''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|101344340096}}
|- 
| ''[[House mouse|Mus musculus]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|30614386913}}
|- 
| ''[[Human|Homo sapiens]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|27834633853}}
|-
|''[[Oat|Avena sativa]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|21127939362}}
|-
|''[[Escherichia coli]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|15517830491}}
|-
|''[[Klebsiella pneumoniae]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|11144687122}}
|- 
| ''[[Zebrafish|Danio rerio]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|10890148966}}
|- 
| ''[[Cattle|Bos taurus]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|10650671156}}
|-
|''[[Durum|Triticum turgidum]]'' subsp. ''durum''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|9981529154}}
|- 
| ''[[Maize|Zea mays]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|7412263902}}
|-
|''[[Avena insularis]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|6924307246}}
|-
|''[[Rye|Secale cereale]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|6749247504}}
|- 
| ''[[Brown rat|Rattus norvegicus]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|6548854408}}
|-
|''[[Aegilops longissima]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|5920483689}}
|- 
| ''[[Dog|Canis lupus familiaris]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|5776499164}}
|-
|''[[Aegilops sharonensis]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|5272476906}}
|- 
| ''[[Wild boar|Sus scrofa]]''
| align="middle" | {{nts|5179074907}}
|-
|''[[Rhinatrema bivittatum]]''
| align="middle" | {{Nts|5178626132}}
|}