Inspired by some tweets from @ewanbirney, because I’m waiting for lunch and because it’s Labor Day I used the Entrez tool to find the oldest entries (using the publication date field) in Genbank.
For proteins there’s a single hit in 1979
For NA there’s 12 hits from 1982:
Nothing useful here and it’s probably not even correct so I promise the next article will be useful!
Enjoy Labor Day!