EMBL release 78 available

[Katerina Tzouvara]

Release 78 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)
  http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/molbio/embl_release/               (Finland)
  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)

PLEASE try to use these mirror sites for download.

Release 78 is about 20.5GB compressed and 136GB uncompressed.
It contains 32,631,252 sequences comprising 37,984,728,579
nucleotides, an increase of about 5.4% over release 77.

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 78 data at
Thursday Mar 11 01:00 GMT 2004.

Regards,
Katerina Tzouvara
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
EMBL-EBI