Subject: Databases availability announcement

From: [email-masked] (Amos Bairoch)
Date: 11 Sep 91 21:16:00 GMT

Databases avialability announcement
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Name        : SWISS-PROT 
Description : Protein sequence data bank.
Release     : 19.0
Statistics  : 21 795 sequences , 7 173 785 amino acids, 21 773 references.
Citation    : Bairoch A., Boeckmann B.; Nucleic Acids Res. 19:2247-2249(1991).
Availability: Immediate by anonymous FTP on the NCBI repository and the GenBank
              on-line service (GOS)
              Tape and CD-ROM distribution  by  the EMBL  Data Library in a few
              weeks.
Next release: 20.0 in the end of November 1991.

Name        : PROSITE
Description : Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns.
Release     : 7.10
Statistics  : 510 patterns, 443 documentation entries.
Citation    : Bairoch A.; Nucleic Acids Res. 19:2241-2245(1991).
Availability: Immediate by anonymous FTP on the NCBI repository and the GenBank
              on-line service (GOS).
              Immediate by electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
Next release: 8.0 in the end of November 1991.

Name        : ENZYME
Description : Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns.
Release     : 6.00
Statistics  : 3072 enzymes described.
Citation    : None yet.
Availability: Immediate by anonymous FTP on the NCBI repository and the GenBank
              on-line service (GOS).
              Immediate by electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
Next release: 7.0 in the end of November 1991.

Name        : SEQANALREF
Description : Sequence analysis bibliographic reference data bank
Release     : 20.0
Statistics  : 1657 references.
Citation    : Bairoch A.; CABIOS 7:268-268(1991). 
Availability: Immediate by anonymous FTP on the NCBI repository and the GenBank
              on-line service (GOS).
              Immediate by electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
Next release: 21.0 in the beginning of October 1991.

+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+
| Data base  | Rel. | Email             FTP      FTP   EMBL   EMBL   |
|            |      | EMBL File Server  GenBank  NCBI  Tape   CD-ROM |
+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+
| SWISS-PROT | 19.0 | Yes (by entry)    Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| ENZYME     |  6.0 | Yes               Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| PROSITE    |  7.1 | Yes               Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| SEQANALREF | 20.0 | Yes               Yes      Yes   No     No     |
+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+
 
Adresses
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Inquiries on the above databases:    [email-masked]
 
Inquiries on how to obtain tapes
or CD-ROM of SWISS-PROT, PROSITE,
and ENZYME:                          [email-masked]             
 
EMBL file server email address:      [email-masked]
 
GenBank On-line Service FTP address: genbank.bio.net  (or 134.172.1.160)
 
NCBI FTP address:                    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (or 130.14.20.1)

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