EMBL 77 available

[Katerina Tzouvara]

Release 77 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/           (UK)
  ftp://ftp.dk.embnet.org/pub/databases/embl/release/       (Denmark)
  ftp://bio-mirror.net/biomirror/embl/release/              (USA)
  ftp://bio-mirror.au.apan.net/biomirror/embl/release/      (Australia)
  ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/embl/release/  (Japan)
  ftp://ftp.cbi.pku.edu.cn/pub/databases/embl77/            (China)

PLEASE try to use these mirror sites for download.

Release 77 is about 19GB compressed and 129GB uncompressed.
It contains 30,351,263 sequences comprising 36,042,464,651
nucleotides, an increase of about 6% over release 76.

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 77 data at
Wednesday Dec 10 01:00 GMT 2003.

Regards,
Katerina Tzouvara
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
EMBL-EBI