Databases availability announcement

[Amos Bairoch]

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Databases availability announcement
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Name        : SWISS-PROT 
Description : Protein sequence data bank.
Release     : 28.0
Statistics  : 36 000 fully annotated sequences , 12 496 420 amino acids,
              33 903 references.
Citation    : Bairoch A., Boeckmann B.; Nucleic Acids Res. 21:3093-3096(1993).
Availability: By anonymous FTP on: EMBL FTP server.
                                   NCBI repository.
                                   ExPASy FTP server.
                                   Swiss EMBnet FTP server.
              Tape and CD-ROM distribution by the EMBL Data Library in a few
              weeks.
Next release: 29.0 in mid-June 1994.


Name        : PROSITE
Description : Dictionary of Protein Sites and Patterns.
Release     : 11.1
Statistics  : 926 patterns, 715 documentation entries.
Citation    : Bairoch A.; Nucleic Acids Res. 21:3097-3103(1993).
Availability: By anonymous FTP on: EMBL FTP server.
                                   NCBI repository.
                                   ExPASy FTP server.
                                   Swiss EMBnet FTP server.
              By electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
              Tape and CD-ROM distribution by the EMBL Data Library in a few
              weeks.
Next release: 12.0 in mid-June 1994.


Name        : ENZYME
Description : Enzymes nomenclature database.
Release     : 15.0
Statistics  : 3 489 enzymes described.
Citation    : Bairoch A.; Nucleic Acids Res. 21:3155-3156(1993).
Availability: By anonymous FTP on: EMBL FTP server.
                                   NCBI repository.
                                   ExPASy FTP server.
                                   Swiss EMBnet FTP server.
              By electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
              Tape and CD-ROM distribution by the EMBL Data Library in a few
              weeks.
Next release: 16.0 in mid-June 1994.


Name        : SEQANALREF
Description : Sequence analysis bibliographic reference data bank
Release     : 49.0
Statistics  : 2 396 references, 1 204 abstracts.
Citation    : Bairoch A.; Comput. Appl. Biosci. 7:268-268(1991).
Availability: By anonymous FTP on: EMBL FTP server.
                                   NCBI repository.
                                   ExPASy FTP server.
                                   Swiss EMBnet FTP server.
              By electronic mail on the EMBL File Server.
Next release: 50.0 in the beginning of April 1994.


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| Data base | Rel. | Email          FTP    FTP   FTP     FTP    Tape  CD-ROM |
|           | Nb.  | EMBL           EMBL   NCBI  Swiss   ExPASy EMBL  EMBL   |
|           |      | File Server                 EMBnet                      |
+-----------+------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| SWISS-PROT| 28.0 | Yes (by entry) Yes    Yes   Yes     Yes    Yes   Yes    |
| PROSITE   | 11.1 | Yes            Yes    Yes   Yes     Yes    Yes   Yes    |
| ENZYME    | 15.0 | Yes            Yes    Yes   Yes     Yes    Yes   Yes    |
| SEQANALREF| 49.0 | Yes            Yes    Yes   Yes     Yes    No    Yes    |
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Adresses
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Inquiries on the above databases:    bairoch at cmu.unige.ch

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

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

EMBL FTP server:                     ftp.embl-heidelberg.de (or 192.54.41.33)
NCBI repository FTP address:         ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (or 130.14.20.1)
ExPASy FTP server address:           expasy.hcuge.ch  (or 129.195.254.61)
Swiss EMBnet FTP server address:     nic.switch.ch (or 130.59.1.40)


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| Amos Bairoch                | Email: bairoch at cmu.unige.ch                 |
| Dept. Medical Biochemistry  |                                             |
| C.M.U.                      +---------------------------------------------+
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| 1211 Geneva 4               | Fax  : +(41 22) 347 33 34                   |
| Switzerland                 |                                             |
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