What is the source of PlantGDBs sequence data?
PlantGDB downloads GenBank and UniProt sequence data approximately every four months, corresponding to every other GenBank Release. Sequence data is parsed according to a database schema, and individual sequence files are filtered to detect vector and repeat sequence. When you download FASTA-formatted sequence data from PlantGDB, you may see differences in the masking of repeat or vector regions, but the sequence is otherwise identical.