{
  "meta": {
    "key": "genbank",
    "title": "GenBank Sequence Data",
    "unit": "Gbp",
    "category": "Biology",
    "source": "NCBI GenBank Release Notes",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/statistics/",
    "verified": "2026-09-06",
    "url": "https://exponentialtracker.com/curve/genbank",
    "csv": "https://exponentialtracker.com/data/genbank.csv",
    "json": "https://exponentialtracker.com/data/genbank.json",
    "retrievedFrom": "Compiled by Exponential Tracker and re-derived from the source named above. Rebuilt on every deploy, so re-fetch rather than trusting a saved copy to be current.",
    "rights": "The underlying data belongs to NCBI GenBank Release Notes. This compilation may be reused with attribution to Exponential Tracker. No licence is claimed or implied over the source data.",
    "citation": "Exponential Tracker, \"GenBank Sequence Data\", exponentialtracker.com/curve/genbank, data verified 2026-09-06. Underlying source: NCBI GenBank Release Notes."
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "year": 1982.96,
      "value": 0.00068,
      "label": "GenBank release 3 (680K bp)"
    },
    {
      "year": 1985.96,
      "value": 0.005
    },
    {
      "year": 1988.96,
      "value": 0.025
    },
    {
      "year": 1990.96,
      "value": 0.051
    },
    {
      "year": 1993.96,
      "value": 0.16
    },
    {
      "year": 1995.96,
      "value": 0.43
    },
    {
      "year": 1998.96,
      "value": 2.2
    },
    {
      "year": 2000.96,
      "value": 11.1,
      "label": "Human Genome era"
    },
    {
      "year": 2002.96,
      "value": 28.5
    },
    {
      "year": 2004.96,
      "value": 44.6
    },
    {
      "year": 2006.96,
      "value": 69
    },
    {
      "year": 2008.96,
      "value": 99
    },
    {
      "year": 2010.96,
      "value": 122
    },
    {
      "year": 2012.96,
      "value": 148
    },
    {
      "year": 2014.96,
      "value": 185
    },
    {
      "year": 2016.96,
      "value": 225
    },
    {
      "year": 2018.96,
      "value": 286
    },
    {
      "year": 2020.96,
      "value": 723
    },
    {
      "year": 2022.96,
      "value": 1636
    },
    {
      "year": 2024.96,
      "value": 5086,
      "label": "5.1 Tbp (Dec 2024 release)"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025.96,
      "value": 6651,
      "label": "6.7 Tbp (Dec 2025 release)"
    },
    {
      "year": 2026.62,
      "value": 8237,
      "label": "8.2 Tbp, release 273 (Aug 2026)"
    }
  ]
}