On the differences and similarities of DNA databases,
>> NCBI = 62,807 GenBank 70 = 58,952
>> gbseq.all as of 15-Feb-92 = 5,477 entries (i.e. entries published
57765 entries in EMBL rel. 29
5058 NEW since last release, and 2058 UPDATED since last release
(as of feb-17)
...
Dave says, ...
> would be identical to ours. We specifically kept different release
> numbers precisely to prevent the kind of comparisons made above. I
That is confusing... Does this mean that
(a) GENBANK is now adding entries to their database which are not kept
after the take-over,
(b) NCBI adds entries which will be duplicated upon take-over,
(c) There will be a GENBANK independently released from both NCBI and GENBANK
(d) No one really knows what happens to entries with identical accession
numbers but different annotation and/or sequences
(e) Time will solve this
Please select one (* abcde *)
? and who of the two takes care in EMBL collaboration... ,
who will assign 'genbank' accession numbers ?
I'll quit now but it wouldn't hurt to get more details on this issue if
available.
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