On 6 Jul 2000, Miklos Cserzo wrote:
>>> On 29 Jun 2000, Peter Stoehr wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> > Release 63 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from:
> > the EBI ftp server and other mirror sites below:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release (UK)
> > ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl (Denmark)
> > ftp://ftp.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release (Spain)
> >
>> how long does it normally take to download the full release? (This is the
> fifth day for me between Hinxton and B'ham. :((()
>From personal experience of downloading EMBL (or more specifically just
downloading the plant sequences in EMBL) I would say that it will take a
*long* time if you try and download it during the day, during the week.
If you can schedule to try and download it at the weekend, it can make a
big difference and you *should* be able to download the entire database.
I think that database growth is still exceeding developments in bandwidth
though so this might get worse before it gets better.
Keith
~ Keith Bradnam - Developer, Arabidopsis Genome Resource (AGR)
~ Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre - http://nasc.nott.ac.uk/
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