PomBase - new release and WWW interface

[Yeast Group]

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izosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomyce
spombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosac
charomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombe
schizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharom
ycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizosaccharomycespombeschizo
************* A Schizosaccharomyces pombe database ************

A WWW text interface to PomBase is up and running at 

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/yeast/pombe.html




Release 4-2 of PomBase for UNIX is now available from  
ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/PomBase/

The latest version:

* PomBase now contains 53 analysed S.pombe cosmids from
the Sanger Centre's systematic sequencing of chromosome I. Where
possible these cosmids have been built into contiguous sequences.

* BLAST results have been brought up to date with the latest releases
of EMBL, SWISS-PROT and SP-TREMBL.

* The results of TBLASTX/BLASTN searches against the complete
S.cerevisiae genome are included

* The results of a Hidden Markov Model method for predicting introns
are included.

* GeneFinder has been tuned to predict S.pombe protein coding genes.

* Medline references, ENZYME and PROSITE records are updated.