EMBL 63 available

[Peter Stoehr]

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)

Release 63 contains 6,760,113 sequences comprising 8,255,674,441
nucleotides, an increase of about 35% over release 62, largely due to the
inclusion of the Human Genome Draft Sequence.

NB: - There are now 47 EST files, and they are organised and named according
      to taxonomy, ie:
        est_fun.dat                           Fungi ESTs
        est_hum1.dat - est_hum20.dat          Human ESTs
        est_inv1.dat - est_inv4.dat           Invertebrate ESTs
        est_mam.dat                           Mammal ESTs
        est_pln1.dat - est_pln5.dat           Plant ESTs
        est_pro.dat                           Prokaryote ESTs
        est_rod1.dat - est_rod13.dat          Rodent ESTs
        est_vrt1.dat - est_vrt2.dat           Vertebrate ESTs   
    - There are now 16 GSS files (gss1-gss16).
    - There are now  6 HUM files (hum1-hum6).
    - There are now 23 HTG files (htg1-htg23).

Please see the full release notes at:
 ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/relnotes.txt
 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/Release_notes/current/relnotes.html

For those who mirror our cumulative update files containing new and updated
sequence data since the last full database release, please note that these
will be changed to include only post-release 63 data at
Friday June 30 12:00:00 BST 2000.

Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI