OWL 28.0

[ajb at seqnet.dl.ac.uk]

Release 28.0 of the OWL database is now available by anon-ftp from:

	ftp.uk.embnet.org              pub/database/owl
        ncbi.nlm.nih.gov               repository/OWL

The information file is appended.

Alan Bleasby
SEQNET/EMBnet/Bionet
Daresbury Laboratory
Warrington WA4 4AD
UK

                     
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              *      OWL COMPOSITE PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATABASE      *
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    Derived from:-

        SWISS-PROT:  Bairoch.A & Boeckman, B (1991)
                     The SWISS-PROT protein sequence databank
                     Nucleic Acids Res., 19, Suppl., 2247-2249
                                                                             
NBRF PIR1,PIR2,PIR3: George,D.G, Barker,W.C & Hunt,L.T. (1986)
                     The protein identification resource (PIR)
                     Nucleic Acids Research., 14, 11-15
        GENBANK:     Benson.D, Lipman, D.J., & Ostell.J (1993)
                     Genbank
                     Nucleic Acids Research., 21(13), 2963-5
        NRL_3D:      Namboodiri. K, Pattabiraman,N., Lowrey,A., Gaber,B.,
                     George,D.G. & Barker,W.C. (1989)
                     NRL_3D A sequence structure database PIR Newsletter., 8, 5
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        Statistics for the incorporated sequences of source databases are:

                 		     Entries    Residues
        SWISSPROT Rel 33              52200     18530356
        NBRF Rel 48(PIR 1)            193       116636
        NBRF Rel 48(PIR 2)            26343     7459812
        NBRF Rel 48(PIR 3)            2956      705338
        NBRF Rel 48(PIR 4)            46        13706
        GenBank Rel 94.0              64824     19091943
        NRL_3D Rel 20.0               603       111459


    NRL_3D Contains entries for which an X-Ray crystal structure exists
    in Brookhaven. The codes for these entries start with NRL_ followed by
    the Brookhaven database code.

    Note:
  
    1. Starting with OWL release 26.0, only the sequences from NRL_3D that
       DO NOT occur in other sequence databases are included.
       One additional line is included in the reference file that
       provides a cross reference to the corresponding entry in the
       PRINTS Protein Finger Print database.
  
    2. Starting with OWL release 26.2, the Genbank entries are extracted
       from the translations in the NCBI supplied Genbank files 

    3. Starting with OWL release 26.3.
       One additional line is included in the reference file that
       provides a cross reference to the corresponding entry in
       NRL_3D (Brookhaven code).

    4. Starting with OWL release 27.1 sequences from PIR4 are included

                            VERSION 28.0
                Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
                           The University of Leeds
                                  Leeds 
                                LS2  9JT
                                  UK


                              147,165 ENTRIES
                           46,028,980 RESIDUES
   
     CREATION DATE: 30th May 1996
     CREATED  BY:  A.J. Bleasby & D. Akrigg