GI number
http://edamontology.org/data_2314
A series of digits that are assigned consecutively to each sequence record processed by NCBI. The GI number bears no resemblance to the Accession number of the sequence record.
Synonyms: NCBI GI number
Term info
Subsets
edam, data, identifiers
Created in
beta12orEarlier
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Nucleotide sequence GI number is shown in the VERSION field of the database record. Protein sequence GI number is shown in the CDS/db_xref field of a nucleotide database record, and the VERSION field of a protein database record.