Table 7.

Entrez queries to retrieve sets of RefSeq records.

QueryAccession prefixRefSeq status retrieved
srcdb​_refseq[prop] All RefSeq accessionsAll
srcdb​_refseq_known[prop] NC_, AC_, NG_, NM_, NR_, NP_, AP_REVIEWED, PROVISIONAL, PREDICTED, INFERRED, and VALIDATED
srcdb​_refseq_reviewed[prop] NC_, AC_,NG_, NM_, NR_, NP_, AP_REVIEWED
srcdb​_refseq_validated[prop] NC_, NM_,NR_,NP_VALIDATED
srcdb​_refseq_provisional[prop] NC_, AC_, NG_, NM_, NR_, NP_, AP_PROVISIONAL
srcdb​_refseq_predicted[prop] NM_, NR_, NP_PREDICTED
srcdb​_refseq_inferred[prop] AC_, AP_, NM_,NR_,NP_INFERRED
srcdb​_refseq_model[prop] a NT_, NW_, XM_, XR_, XP_, ZP_Genome annotation models

From: Chapter 18, The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) Database

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