What’s in the databases?
As of November 23, 2000, Genbank contained
10,853,673,034 bp of information. There were about 600
completely sequenced viruses, 29 completely sequenced
bacteria, 8 completely sequenced archaea, and 3
complete genomes of eukariotes: S. cerevisiaea (baker’s
yeast), C. elegans (a roundworm), and Drosophila
melanogaster (fruitfly). The genome of Arabidopsis (thale
cress) was near completion, and a first draft of the human
genome had been completed.