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Incorporating short tandem repeat sequences into STRBase: Past, Present, and Future

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Author(s)

Lisa Borsuk, Peter Vallone, Katherine Gettings

Abstract

STRBase (strbase.nist.gov) was launched in late 1997 to collect and organize information in one location about Short Tandem Repeats (STR), the new emerging forensic marker type at the time. Over the next twenty-plus years, data related to STR markers was collected from the community and incorporated into STRBase. More recently, this has included adding the STR sequencing information from the STRSeq project, which is a curated set of sequences collected from the forensic community housed at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the form of GenBank records organized into BioProjects. STRBase and STRSeq continue to evolve and grow, with additional functionality and information continuously added.
Citation
Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.15304/cc.2025.1869
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Keywords

Short Tandem Repeat (STR), Sequence, STRSeq, STRBase
Forensic Science and Forensic genetics

Citation

Borsuk, L. , Vallone, P. and Gettings, K. (2025), Incorporating short tandem repeat sequences into STRBase: Past, Present, and Future, Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series, [online], https://doi.org/10.15304/cc.2025.1869, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=958863 (Accessed October 28, 2025)

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Created June 4, 2025, Updated July 25, 2025
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