EMBL 71 available

[Peter Stoehr]

Release 71 of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is available from
the EBI ftp servers and other verified mirror sites as follows:
  
  ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/           (London UK)
  ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release/       (Denmark)
  ftp://www.es.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release/       (Spain)
  ftp://bio-mirror.net/biomirror/embl/release/              (USA)
  ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/embl/release/  (Japan)
  ftp://bio-mirror.au.apan.net/biomirror/embl/release/      (Australia)

  
PLEASE try to use these mirror sites for download.
Release 71 is about 11GB compressed and 73GB uncompressed.

Release 71 contains 17,226,421 sequences comprising 20,017,246,707
nucleotides, an increase of about 11% over release 70. This release is
already available via EBI's SRS/Blast/Fasta search servers.

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 70 data at
Thursday June 13 12:00:00 BST 2002.

Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI