What’s in the databases?
As of March 18, 2002, Genbank contained
20,197,497,568 bp of information. There were about 700
completely sequenced viruses, 63 completely sequenced
bacteria, 13 completely sequenced archaea, and 5
complete genomes of eukaryotes: S. cerevisiaea, S. pombe
(two yeasts), C. elegans (a roundworm), Drosophila
melanogaster (fruitfly) and Arabidopsis thaliana (thale
cress), as well as a draft of the human genome.