GenBank release 217.0 is available via FTP

GenBank release 217.0 (12/15/2016) has 198,565,475 traditional records containing 224,973,060,433 base pairs of sequence data. In addition, there are 395,301,176 WGS records containing 1,817,189,565,845 base pairs of sequence data, 142,094,337 TSA records containing 125,328,824,508 base pairs of sequence data, as well as 1,268,690 TLS records containing 584,697,919 base pairs of sequence data.
Source: NCBI Announcements - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news