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Genome Warehouse

The Genome Warehouse (GWH) is a public repository housing genome-scale data for a wide range of species and delivering a series of web services for genome data submission, storage, release and sharing.

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Data Resources

Data Growth

Feature Species Resources

Update Notes

GWH prokaryotic reannotation pipeline has added functional gene annotation by AMRFinderPlus. [2025-01-01]
GWH has launched batch download function in browsw assembly and advanced search result page. [2024-09-05]
Support the submission of metagenomic and haplotype genome data types. [2024-06-14]
Batch submission system has been online. [2024-05-24]
GWH advanced search has been online. [2024-01-31]
GWH reannotation of prokaryotic genomes has been online. [2024-01-31]
GWH has updated the quality control process. [2023-11-09]
GWH has launched Chinese version. [2023-08-24]
GWH launches data request function for controlled human genome assembly data. [2023-07-13]
GWH has collected all of the metadata of the genome assembly data in INSDC and provides global search and data download service (under continuous updating). [2023-07-12]
GWH has integrated nucleotide and protein sequences of Poxviridae from NCBI. [2022-06-09]
BLAST is available online. [2021-05-01]
The 'Reviewer Link' generation function in the submission list has been added online. [2020-11-22]
Five complete genome sequences of 2019-nCoV submitted by Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College have been shared with NCBI (accession numbers MT019529~MT019533) through CNCB/NGDC. [2020-01-26]
GWH has integrated nucleotide and protein sequences of all public coronaviruses (including SARS-CoV-2) that are collected from NCBI, CNGB, NMDC and CNCB/NGDC. [2020-01-22]
Provide dynamic statistics results. [2019-08-28]
Unpublished data are available for 'BIG search' but not accessible. [2019-04-10]
Metagenome submission is supported. [2019-01-11]
Genome survey sequences submission table is available online. [2018-06-15]
Submitter can update release date directly via submission system. [2017-12-07]
Publish genome data release policies and disclaimers. [2017-11-21]
Genome assembly search function is available. [2017-09-28]
Alter the home page layout. [2017-09-25]
Submission system version beta is available online. [2017-07-01]
Develop genome data standards version 1.0 beta. [2017-06-15]

How to Cite

Please cite the accession number GWHXXXX00000000 like this (We recommend you putting these paragraphs in the Materials and Methods section of the paper):

The whole genome sequence data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Genome Warehouse [1] in National Genomics Data Center [2], Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation, under accession number GWHXXXX00000000 that is publicly accessible at https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwh.

References:

[1] The Updated Genome Warehouse: Enhancing Data Value, Security, and Usability to Address Data Expansion. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 2025 Feb 20:qzaf010. [PMID=39977364]

[2] Database Resources of the National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation in 2025. Nucleic Acids Res 2025 Jan 6;53(D1):D30-D44. [PMCID=PMC11701749]

Statistics

Integrated Assemblies (GenBank: 2,551,129, RefSeq: 486,872):
16,360 Animals 4,843 Plants 2,228 Protists 19,531 Fungi 2,272,008 Bacteria 23,891 Archaea 192,807 Viruses 11,866 Metagenomes
Release of Direct Submissions (Total: 66,641):
3,115 Animals 3,844 Plants 951 Protists 453 Fungi 7,890 Bacteria 149 Archaea 2,454 Viruses 44,184 Metagenomes
Direct Submissions (Total: 89,323):

9,814 Animals 12,036 Plants 1,104 Protists 1,049 Fungi 13,331 Bacteria 346 Archaea 2,985 Viruses 44,952 Metagenomes

GWH-supported Deposition

Data submissions to GWH have been reported by multiple journals, including:
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