Release 49 (December 1996) of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is
available from the EBI anonymous FTP server:
ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release
There is one new database file HTG.DAT containing 'High Throughput Genome
Sequences'. A new taxonomy in common with NCBI-GenBank has been implemented.
This release contains 1,047,263 sequences, 696,183,789 bases, an increase of
about 14% over release 48.
More details are in the release notes available at URLs:
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/relnotes.dochttp://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_docs/embl_db/relnotes49/relnotes.html
For those who download our file of cumulative updates (cumulative.dat.Z),
please note that this file will change (become smaller) on 18.12.96 at 15:00
to contain only data created since release 49.
Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI
