EMBL 76 available

[Peter Stoehr]

Release 76 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://bio-mirror.kr.apan.net/pub/biomirror/embl/release/  (Korea)
   ftp://bio-mirror.cn.apan.net/pub/biomirror/embl/release/  (China)
   ftp://ftp.cbi.pku.edu.cn/pub/databases/embl76/            (China)

PLEASE try to use these mirror sites for download.

Release 76 is about 18GB compressed and 117GB uncompressed.
It contains 27,248,475 sequences comprising 33,885,908,155
nucleotides, an increase of about 5% over release 75.

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 76 data at
Saturday Sep 06 06:00 BST 2003.

Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL-EBI