Taxacom: NCBI funding

[David Campbell]

NCBI data is cross-linked with the European and Japanese versions, so data
is likely safe but NCBI-specific tools may not be.

On Monday, November 17, 2025, Nicolas Lavesque via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> If I understand correctly, it was related to the shutdown that affected
> the US. When you go to the Genbank website, there is no longer an alert
> message, so I imagine that the situation is returning to normal.
>
> But it will probably take some time to catch up on the backlog.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Adam Cotton via Taxacom" <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> À: taxacom at lists.ku.edu
> Envoyé: Lundi 17 Novembre 2025 11:36:16
> Objet: Taxacom: NCBI funding
>
> I have just heard from a colleague that the current US government has
> stopped the funding for NCBI (GenBank) so he could not upload sequences
> for specimens in a new publication due to be submitted to a journal soon.
>
> Does anyone have any information whether this will be permanent, and
> also what will happen to all of the sequence data currently stored there
> and used for analysis?
>
> Thanks for any information on this rather worrying situation.
>
> Adam.
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