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[Frederic PLEWNIAK]

In article <1994Sep25.005052.34933 at hulaw1.harvard.edu> Keith Robison,
robison at lipid.harvard.edu writes:
>
>The recent posting from the GCG folks seemed to imply that the BLAST
>in version 8 could work as either a client to NCBI or on a local database
>-- is this true, or did I misread something?
>

That's also what is said in the version 8 Program Manual I've just
received...


>
>Your points regarding the tradeoff are well taken; will version 8 have
>any support for NetEntrez data retrieval as part of FETCH?
>

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything like that......

Regards,

Fred