EMBL release 80 is available

[Weimin Zhu]

Dear Colleagues,

Release 80 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.funet.fi/pub/sci/molbio/embl_release            (Finland)
  ftp://bio-mirror.net/biomirror/embl/release/              (USA)
  ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/embl/release/  (Japan)
  ftp://ftp.cbi.pku.edu.cn./pub/databases/embl80            (China)

PLEASE try to use these mirror sites for download.

>From release 80, EMBL release includes the whole genome shortgun (WGS)
data, along with the EMBL normal division data.
The total compressed file size is about 35.5 GB, and 201 GB for
uncompressed files.
  Division data: containing 37,882,872 sequences comprising
42,077,895,467 nucleotides, an increase of about 8.6% over release 79.
  WGS data:    containing 4,429,392 sequences comprising 28,144,536,717
nucleotides, an increase of about 2.1% of number of entries over release
79.

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 80 data at 12:00 GMT,
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004.

Regards,
Weimin Zhu & Siamak Sobhany
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
EMBL-EBI