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From: BAIROCH@CMU.UNIGE.CH (Amos Bairoch)
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Subject: Database availability.
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Databases availability announcement
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Name        : SWISS-PROT
Description : Protein sequence data bank.
Release     : 20.0 of november 1991
Statistics  : 22 654 sequences , 7 500 086 amino acids, 22 830 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.
Next release: 21.0 in the end of March 1992.


Name        : PROSITE
Description : Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns.
Release     : 8.00 of December 1991
Statistics  : 605 patterns, 530 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: 8.10 in the end of March 1992.


Name        : ENZYME
Description : Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns.
Release     : 7.00 of November 1991
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: 8.0 in the end of March 1992.


Name        : SEQANALREF
Description : Sequence analysis bibliographic reference data bank
Release     : 22.0 of December 1991
Statistics  : 1721 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: 24.0 in the beginning of February 1992.


+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+
| Data base  | Rel. | Email             FTP      FTP   EMBL   EMBL   |
|            |      | EMBL File Server  GenBank  NCBI  Tape   CD-ROM |
+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+
| SWISS-PROT | 20.0 | Yes (by entry)    Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| ENZYME     |  7.0 | Yes               Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| PROSITE    |  8.0 | Yes               Yes      Yes   Yes    Yes    |
| SEQANALREF | 22.0 | Yes               Yes      Yes   No     No     |
+------------+------+------------------------------------------------+

Adresses
========

Inquiries on the above databases:    bairoch@cmu.unige.ch

Inquiries on how to obtain tapes
or CD-ROM of SWISS-PROT, PROSITE,
and ENZYME:                          datalib@embl-heidelberg.de

EMBL file server email address:      netserv@embl-heidelberg.de

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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