From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 03 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!buzz.bmc.uu.se!embl-heidelberg.de!omond From: omond@embl-heidelberg.de (Roy Omond) Newsgroups: bionet.general,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,embnet.general Subject: Scheduled downtime at EMBL Message-ID: <1993Mar4.161720.74650@embl-heidelberg.de> Date: 4 Mar 93 15:17:20 GMT Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lines: 27 Xref: biosci bionet.general:4226 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:151 Notice of scheduled downtime: The entire main VAXcluster at the EMBL will be offline on Sunday 7-Mar-93 from 10:30 MET until ca. 23:00 MET. We are installing a new release of VMS, and doing "other housekeeping stuff". All of EMBL's eMail-based services will be unavailable during this time (although most mailers should queue files until we're back online again). This includes the following services: Netserv : network file server FASTA : FASTA server QUICK : GCG Quicksearch server Blitz : Sequence search server on MasPar MP-1 PredictProtein : Secondary structure prediction server *Not* affected are EMBL's anonymous ftp server at ftp.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE and the gopher hole at the same address. Apologies for the downtime :-) Roy Omond System Manager/PostMaster etc. etc. European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany. From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Sun Mar 07 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!tamuts!gco5031 From: gco5031@tamuts.tamu.edu (Guilherme Co. Oliveira) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Blast search Message-ID: <1ng1hkINN54j@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: 8 Mar 93 17:59:16 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Lines: 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: tamuts.tamu.edu Could anyone please send me information on how to do the BLAST search (mail format, and address for submission)? Thanks in advance, Guilherme Oliveira Department of Biology Texas A&M University From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Mon Mar 08 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!embl-heidelberg.de!cameron From: cameron@embl-heidelberg.de Newsgroups: bionet.announce,bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: European Bioinformatics Institute - Press release Message-ID: <1993Mar9.172445.75382@embl-heidelberg.de> Date: 9 Mar 93 16:24:45 GMT Sender: kristoff@net.bio.net Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lines: 63 Approved: bionews-moderator@net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.announce:393 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:153 The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) A New EMBL Outstation EMBL Press Release Heidelberg, 9 March 1993 The EMBL Council decided today that its recently announced Outstation, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) will be located near Cambridge in the UK. Its goal will be to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is conveniently accessible to all facets of the European scientific and biotechnology community in ways which promote scientific progress and global competitiveness. The EBI will expand on the work of the EMBL Data Library, which was established more than a decade ago to build a database of nucleotide sequences, and today supplies this and many other kinds of biological information to scientists throughout the world. Today's competitive biological research and biotechnology industries are crucially dependent on up-to-date information. Modern research scientists and biotechnologists are becoming intensive users of electronic information resources - computers, software, networks and databases, and the EBI will be a European focus for the development of and access to products and services based on these technologies. The EBI will continue the Data Library's work in preparing and distributing databases of biological interest in collaboration with an extensive network of other independent European centres. It will expand in areas crucial to the long-term achievement of this service goal, which include: technology tracking in biology and informatics, research and development, training and user support. Specific areas for research will include comparison algorithms, networked information resources, and new database design. Within two years the EBI will employ almost 70 scientific and technical staff in a custom-designed building on the Genome Campus at Hinxton Park, south of Cambridge. The site already houses the Sanger Centre, directed by Dr. John Sulston, which specialises in genome-scale sequencing. After evaluation of very credible offers from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the decision on the UK location was reached at the EMBL Council meeting of March 9. Strong commitment from the UK Government and scientific community resulted in a proposal from the Medical Research Council in partnership with the Wellcome Trust to provide excellent facilities for the new EMBL Outstation. The British Government has furthermore committed itself to conclude an agreement with EMBL such that the EBI will enjoy the same privileges as EMBL has in Germany and France. The major part of the EBI operating budget is expected to come from EMBL and the Commission of the European Communities (EC) both of which finance the present Data Library. DG XII of the EC has been a strong supporter of bioinformatics throughout Europe and especially the work at EMBL. EMBL is an international, intergovernmental organisation dedicated to basic research, advanced training and the provision of services in molecular biology. It was founded in 1973 and has become one of the premier biological research centres in the world. The EBI is the third Outstation of EMBL; the other two, located in Hamburg, FRG, and Grenoble, France, provide facilities for the analysis of biological structures at the atomic level. The EBI like the other two Outstations will be administered by EMBL. From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Mon Mar 08 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!buzz.bmc.uu.se!embl-heidelberg.de!cameron From: cameron@embl-heidelberg.de Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: European Bioinformatics Institute - Press release Message-ID: <1993Mar9.172954.75384@embl-heidelberg.de> Date: 9 Mar 93 16:29:54 GMT Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lines: 63 The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) A New EMBL Outstation EMBL Press Release Heidelberg, 9 March 1993 The EMBL Council decided today that its recently announced Outstation, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) will be located near Cambridge in the UK. Its goal will be to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is conveniently accessible to all facets of the European scientific and biotechnology community in ways which promote scientific progress and global competitiveness. The EBI will expand on the work of the EMBL Data Library, which was established more than a decade ago to build a database of nucleotide sequences, and today supplies this and many other kinds of biological information to scientists throughout the world. Today's competitive biological research and biotechnology industries are crucially dependent on up-to-date information. Modern research scientists and biotechnologists are becoming intensive users of electronic information resources - computers, software, networks and databases, and the EBI will be a European focus for the development of and access to products and services based on these technologies. The EBI will continue the Data Library's work in preparing and distributing databases of biological interest in collaboration with an extensive network of other independent European centres. It will expand in areas crucial to the long-term achievement of this service goal, which include: technology tracking in biology and informatics, research and development, training and user support. Specific areas for research will include comparison algorithms, networked information resources, and new database design. Within two years the EBI will employ almost 70 scientific and technical staff in a custom-designed building on the Genome Campus at Hinxton Park, south of Cambridge. The site already houses the Sanger Centre, directed by Dr. John Sulston, which specialises in genome-scale sequencing. After evaluation of very credible offers from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the decision on the UK location was reached at the EMBL Council meeting of March 9. Strong commitment from the UK Government and scientific community resulted in a proposal from the Medical Research Council in partnership with the Wellcome Trust to provide excellent facilities for the new EMBL Outstation. The British Government has furthermore committed itself to conclude an agreement with EMBL such that the EBI will enjoy the same privileges as EMBL has in Germany and France. The major part of the EBI operating budget is expected to come from EMBL and the Commission of the European Communities (EC) both of which finance the present Data Library. DG XII of the EC has been a strong supporter of bioinformatics throughout Europe and especially the work at EMBL. EMBL is an international, intergovernmental organisation dedicated to basic research, advanced training and the provision of services in molecular biology. It was founded in 1973 and has become one of the premier biological research centres in the world. The EBI is the third Outstation of EMBL; the other two, located in Hamburg, FRG, and Grenoble, France, provide facilities for the analysis of biological structures at the atomic level. The EBI like the other two Outstations will be administered by EMBL. From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Mon Mar 29 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es!mrege From: mrege@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Mar30.203442.22@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es> Date: 30 Mar 93 20:34:41 GMT Organization: C.N.Biotecnologia, CSIC Lines: 32 Last year we submitted a DNA sequence to EMBL Databank with the corresponding protein sequence deduced from it (bss gene from Serratia marcescens, encoding for bacteriocin 28b). We marked it as not available until publication. X62454 was the accession number it was given. Since this sequence was published on August 1992 (Viejo et al. Cloning and DNA sequence analysis of a bacteriocin gene of Serratia marcescens'. Journal of General Microbiology, 138:1737-1743), we thought it was made available to database users. The fact is it's not, so we wonder: 1. How long is the avg time from publication to release of a sequence? 2. What is the correct way to submit such a sequence? 3. Where can we address to update this entry? 4. Are there a lot of sequences lost for the searches because of people (like us) simply forgot 'resubmit' them after publication? I don't know if this is a FAQ question, but we have not been able to find in the submission form any suggestion (anything like 'Please do inform when and where your sequence/s have been published to the following address...') With compliments, Dr. Miquel Regue e-mail:regue@farmacia.ub.es Dept of Microbiology Faculty of Pharmacy Barcelona (Spain) From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 30 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!comp.bioz.unibas.ch!doelz From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Mar31.095957.17595@comp.bioz.unibas.ch> Date: 31 Mar 93 09:59:57 GMT References: <1993Mar30.203442.22@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es> Sender: usenet@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (NEWS transaction account) Reply-To: doelz@urz.unibas.ch Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [BASEL] Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: biox.embnet.unibas.ch In article <1993Mar30.203442.22@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es>, mrege@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es writes: |> for bacteriocin 28b). We marked it as not available until publication. |> X62454 was the accession number it was given. |> ID S45302 backbone; DNA; PRO; 1568 BP. AC S45302; X62454; DT 16-FEB-1993 (Rel. 34, Created) DT 16-FEB-1993 (Rel. 34, Last updated, Version 1) RN [1] RP 1-1568 RA Viejo M.B., Gargallo D., Ferrer S., Enfedaque J., Regue M.; RT "Cloning and DNA sequence analysis of a bacteriocin gene of RT Serratia marcescens."; RL J. Gen. Microbiol. 138:1737-1743(1992). XX CC This entry [NCBI gibbsq 113316] was created by the journal scanning CC component of NCBI/GenBank at the National Library of Medicine. This CC sequence comes from Fig. 4. -- +----------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Dr. Reinhard Doelz | RFC doelz@urz.unibas.ch | | Biocomputing | DECNET 20579::48130::doelz | |Biozentrum der Universitaet | X25 022846211142036::doelz | | Klingelbergstrasse 70 | FAX x41 61 261- 6760 or 267- 2078 | CH 4056 Basel | TEL x41 61 267- 2076 or 2247 | +------------- bioftp.unibas.ch is the SWISS EMBnet node ----------------+ ----------------------------------------- From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 30 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!daresbury!news From: rlippens@ulb.ac.be (Lippens Renee) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Mar31.093441.6087@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> Date: 31 Mar 93 10:32:52 GMT Sender: rlippens%be.ac.ulb@be.ac.kuleuven.cc1 Distribution: bionet Lines: 44 Original-To: embl-db@uk.ac.daresbury X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] >Miquel Regue writes : > >Last year we submitted a DNA sequence to EMBL Databank with the corresponding >protein sequence deduced from it (bss gene from Serratia marcescens, encoding >for bacteriocin 28b). We marked it as not available until publication. > < text deleted > >Since this sequence was published on August 1992 < text deleted > >we thought it was made available to database users. The fact is it's not. > < text deleted > > 4. Are there a lot of sequences lost for the searches because of > people (like us) simply forgot 'resubmit' them after publication? Answer to point 4. seems to be YES. Very recently I have experienced this problem for four sequences within 2 months. I have lost a bundle of time and energy to find e-mail addresses and then to find out which one of GenBank, EMBL or DDBJ was in position to release the published information !! I hope that suggestions to shorten the delay between publication and release of the sequence which will be expressed on the net, will be considered by the databank managers. Because, obviously, asking the authors to notify the databank when data has been published is not ideal. Below are some useful addresses to people looking desperatly for some nucleic acid sequence : EMBL Kate Rice Kate.Rice@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE GenBank Barbara Rapp rapp@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov rose@weft.nlm.nih.gov Jolene Schwertfeger jjs@temin.Lanl.GOV DDBJ citation and data update ddbjsub@ddbj.nig.ac.jp Shigeko Suzuki ssuzuki@genes.nig.ac.jp -- +_______________________________________________________________+ + + + Lippens Renee | Internet : rlippens@ulb.ac.be + + Computer Support Assistant | EARN : rlippens@bbrbfu60 + + + + Universite Libre de Bruxelles | Fax : 32 67 287777 + + Departement de Biologie Moleculaire | Phone : 32 67 287762 + + Service de Genetique Appliquee | + + Rue de l'Industrie, 24 | Internal postmail + + 1400 Nivelles Belgium | CP 800 + +_______________________________________________________________+ From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 30 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!biotek5.pc.Helsinki.FI!roos From: roos@Operoni.Helsinki.FI (Christophe Roos) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 93 14:51:41 GMT References: <1993Mar30.203442.22@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es> Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka) Organization: Institute of Biotechnology (Univ. Helsinki) Lines: 25 In article <1993Mar30.203442.22@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es> mrege@cnbvx3.cnb.uam.es writes: >Last year we submitted a DNA sequence to EMBL Databank with the corresponding >protein sequence deduced from it (bss gene from Serratia marcescens, encoding >for bacteriocin 28b). We marked it as not available until publication. >X62454 was the accession number it was given. >Since this sequence was published on August 1992 (Viejo et al. Cloning and >DNA sequence analysis of a bacteriocin gene of Serratia marcescens'. Journal >of General Microbiology, 138:1737-1743), we thought it was made available >to database users. The fact is it's not, so we wonder: (...) Once the paper has been accepted / published, an e-mail to "datasubs@embl- heidelber.de" telling that accession number ...... can be made public makes life easier to those who keep the database up to date and can in general make sequences faster available to all of us. I have encountered the situation with published sequences not being marked as public (they had been entered long ago). Again an e-mail to Heidelberg has usually made it available within 24 hours. Each time it was a sequence published in Nature. Nature is by the way not requiring the sequences to be submitted to a database before publication: archaic ! Christophe Roos From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 30 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!lhc!ray!dab From: dab@ray.nlm.nih.gov (Dennis Benson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Mar31.192735.26903@nlm.nih.gov> Date: 31 Mar 93 19:27:35 GMT References: Sender: news@nlm.nih.gov Organization: National Library of Medicine Lines: 44 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 roos@Operoni.Helsinki.FI (Christophe Roos) writes: : : Once the paper has been accepted / published, an e-mail to "datasubs@embl- : heidelber.de" telling that accession number ...... can be made public makes : life easier to those who keep the database up to date and can in : general make sequences faster available to all of us. : : I have encountered the situation with published sequences not being marked : as public (they had been entered long ago). Again an e-mail to Heidelberg : has usually made it available within 24 hours. Each time it was a sequence : published in Nature. Nature is by the way not requiring the sequences to be : submitted to a database before publication: archaic ! : : Christophe Roos : Ditto for GenBank. Users are encouraged to send mail to: update@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if they fail to find a sequence in the database that has appeared in print with an accession number. We route these messages to the database (NCBI-GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ) that has the author's direct submission so that release can occur and the record can be exchanged among the databases. Before sending a message, however, it would help us if users checked the updates for the missing sequence. With the NCBI mail server a mail message as below will check the latest GenBank updates, the updates from EMBL and DDBJ (which get incorporated within 24 hours of their release), plus the most recent full GenBank release. Send a message in the form: DATALIB genbank BEGIN M92819 (enter accession number(s) here) to: retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Dennis Benson National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine/NIH From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!uwm.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!hsdndev!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc.harvard.edu!robison1 From: robison1@husc10.harvard.edu (Keith Robison) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 93 23:40:22 GMT References: <1993Mar31.093441.6087@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> Distribution: bionet Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: husc10.harvard.edu The best way to get data released is to send the accession number and publication information to update@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov because NCBI then figures out who's responsible (the first letter in the accession number will tell you, but you have to learn the code). You of course do NOT have to be the original author -- I have used this mechanism many times when stuff isn't in the database when the journal paper shows up. This is clearly not a complete solution to the problem. There is a related problem of released entries whose JOURNAL fields are stuck at "in press" -- it makes tracking down citations a real nuisance. I think that all entries marked "in press" or being held should be periodically reviewed (perhaps after 3 months). This, plus the journal scanning by NCBI, should greatly reduce the number of entries which are marooned in one fashion or another. Keith Robison Harvard University Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology Department of Genetics / HHMI robison@biosun.harvard.edu From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!daresbury!news From: rlippens@ulb.ac.be (Lippens Renee) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Apr1.090522.23287@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> Date: 1 Apr 93 10:00:38 GMT Sender: rlippens%be.ac.ulb@be.ac.kuleuven.cc1 Distribution: bionet Lines: 24 Original-To: embl-db@uk.ac.daresbury X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Keith Robison writes: > > < Text deleted > > There is a related problem of released entries whose JOURNAL fields > are stuck at "in press" -- it makes tracking down citations a real nuisance. > I think that all entries marked "in press" or being held should be > periodically reviewed (perhaps after 3 months). > ^^^^^^^^ > < Text deleted > The suggestion is good but 3 months is really too long, I feel that screening every month will be necessary. But why not ask to the Journals or Publishers to notify the databanks when a publication containing an Accession Number is issued. -- +_______________________________________________________________+ + + + Lippens Renee | Internet : rlippens@ulb.ac.be + + Computer Support Assistant | EARN : rlippens@bbrbfu60 + + + + Universite Libre de Bruxelles | Fax : 32 67 287777 + + Departement de Biologie Moleculaire | Phone : 32 67 287762 + + Service de Genetique Appliquee | BELGIUM + +_______________________________________________________________+ From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!TEMIN.LANL.GOV!pgil From: pgil@TEMIN.LANL.GOV (Paul Gilna) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <9304011633.AA04460@temin.lanl.gov> Date: 1 Apr 93 16:33:30 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 104 Keith Robison makes the point: > This is clearly not a complete solution to the problem. There > is a related problem of released entries whose JOURNAL fields are stuck > at "in press" -- it makes tracking down citations a real nuisance. > I think that all entries marked "in press" or being held should be > periodically reviewed (perhaps after 3 months). This, plus the journal > scanning by NCBI, should greatly reduce the number of entries which are > marooned in one fashion or another. > and Renee Lippens suggests > The suggestion is good but 3 months is really too long, > I feel that screening every month will be necessary. > But why not ask to the Journals or Publishers to notify the databanks when > a publication containing an Accession Number is issued. Keith makes a good point regarding the lack of progression from "in press" to published. However the solutions proposed all suggest that the databases devote some effort to scanning the publication medium to address the problem AFTER it`s occurred. Let me ask the following (rhetorical please!) question: does someone continually remind you to renew your driving permit or auto tax once they have expired? More to the point, does someone do it for you? Not in this country, it is assumed that ownership of a vehicle or possession of driving permit bring with it the responsibility for keeping either current, you're lucky if you get a reminder at all. When you submit your data to GenBank, you are explicitly asked (extracted from GenBank submission acknowlegement text): > > We list the citation associated with your sequence data as follows: > > rDNA sequences of Encephalitozoon hellem and Encephalitizoon > cuniculi: species identification and phylogenetic construction > J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. (1993) In Press > > Please inform us of changes in the citation or corrections to sequence data > by sending electronic mail to > > update@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov In other words, we have conferred upon the submitting author, the responsibility for updating and maintaining his or her data. Michael Cinkosky mentioned: > During the > time between submission and publication, we repeatedly contact the original > submitters requesting information on the status of the publication and > asking for permission to release the data. In this way, many of the > submissions that are originally confidential are still released prior to > publication (with the authors permission). We believe that we can provide a better and more effective service to our submitting customer (and in turn the community) if we can help them exercise that responsibility rather then have us do it for them. At the moment, we are doing this relatively manually, but expect to have automated a lot of this step within the next few months so that "reminder" messages go out automatically on a periodic basis. While we hadn't specifically considered it before this, Keith's observation suggests that extending this to other publication statuses (manuscript in prep, submitted to "journal", unpublished, etc.,) would be a worthwhile move. The primary gain from this approach (in addition to reinforcing the notion that responsibility for data maintenance lies with the owner of the data) is that one increases one's chances of updating the data BEFORE they go wrong. Today, for each new sequence that we release to the nets, we release at least another updated sequence, where the update was provided to us by the submitting author. This suggests that along with the exponential increase in volume of new data, the changes to those data are keeping the same pace. Not long ago, I was fond of quoting the fact that updates from authors represented a third of our output--I think this vision thing is catching on! Finally, I should mention that our contract with NCBI calls for us to develop a data importing capability for their ASN.1 feed, which should give us an automated method for flagging changes in publication status for submissions which have been published; this should give us a partial failsafe for those authors who have yet to catch on (even there, however, I expect we would pass something back to the author)! Cheers, --paul Paul Gilna co-PI, GenBank/LANL ----- End Included Message ----- From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Mar 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!buzz.bmc.uu.se!embl-heidelberg.de!stoehr From: stoehr@embl-heidelberg.de Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Re: sequence not available Message-ID: <1993Apr1.225827.79625@embl-heidelberg.de> Date: 1 Apr 93 21:58:27 GMT References: <1993Mar31.093441.6087@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> Distribution: bionet Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lines: 29 In article <1993Mar31.093441.6087@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, rlippens@ulb.ac.be (Lippens Renee) writes: > I hope that suggestions to shorten the delay between publication and > release of the sequence which will be expressed on the net, will be > considered by the databank managers. Because, obviously, asking the authors > to notify the databank when data has been published is not ideal. Of course they will be considered. I agree, asking the authors to notify the database is not the whole answer, but it helps when other more automated mechanisms fail. Matching published to submitted sequences is surpisingly messy and labour-intensive if you have to rely on comparisons of sequence, author names, species etc. We positively welcome interaction with sequence authors as this often yields significant new information. > Below are some useful addresses to people looking desperatly for some > nucleic acid sequence : > EMBL Kate Rice Kate.Rice@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE Our Kate is indeed very useful and quick to help, but nobody will read her private e-mail while she is away, let alone answer it. PLEASE use the addresses: datalib@embl-heidelberg.de (for any general query or flame) update@embl-heidelberg.de (if you have details of updates to a database entry, including publication information) Regards, Peter Stoehr EMBL Data Library