We plan to start building release 54 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database this Monday March 9th. Daily update files on our ftp server ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/new created after 9.3.98 will contain data which will not be in release 54, and these files will be named accordingly, eg r54u001.dat.Z Regards, Peter Stoehr EMBL-EBI