What’s in the databases?
As of February 20, 2000, Genbank contained
5,861,088,510 bp of information. There were about 600
completely sequenced viruses, 19 completely sequenced
bacteria, 6 completely sequenced archaea, and 3
complete genomes of eukaryotes: S. cerevisiaea (baker’s
yeast), C. elegans (a roundworm), and Drosophila