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Accession number (bioinformatics)

{{Short description|Unique identifier given to DNA or a protein sequence}}

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An accession number, in bioinformatics, is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository. Because of its relative stability, accession numbers can be utilized as foreign keys for referring to a sequence object, but not necessarily to a unique sequence. All sequence information repositories implement the concept of "accession number" but might do so with subtle variations.

LRG

{{main|Locus Reference Genomic}}

Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) records have unique accession numbers starting with LRG_ followed by a number. They are recommended in the [http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen/ Human Genome Variation Society Nomenclature guidelines] as stable genomic reference sequences to report sequence variants in LSDBs and the literature.

Notes and references

  1. {{note|uniprot}} {{cite web | author=Amos Bairoch | author-link=Amos Bairoch |author2=Rolf Apweiler |author2-link=Rolf Apweiler |author3=Cathy H. Wu | title=User Manual | work=UniProt Knowledgebase | url=http://www.expasy.org/sprot/userman.html#AC_line | accessdate=October 20, 2005 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20050921221534/http://www.expasy.org/sprot/userman.html| archivedate= 21 September 2005 | url-status= live}}
  2. {{NCBI-handbook}}

External links

  • {{cite web | title=Sample GenBank Record | website=National Center for Biotechnology Information | date=2021-01-12 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/samplerecord/ | ref={{sfnref | National Center for Biotechnology Information | 2021}} | access-date=2024-03-14}} sample GenBank record

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