Greetings GenBank Users,
The gbcon229.seq.gz and gbcon230.seq.gz files of GenBank Release 199.0
contained a total of three records with corrupted CONTIG-line contents:
con229 : KI543240
con230 : KI629878 and KI629953
The original sizes and timestamps of the affected files were:
-r--r--r-- 1 ftp anonymous 20119743 Dec 13 21:13 gbcon229.seq.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 ftp anonymous 9763733 Dec 13 21:13 gbcon230.seq.gz
Here are selected portions of the records which demonstrate the nature
of the problem:
LOCUS KI543240 5276 bp DNA linear CON 14-NOV-2013
DEFINITION Thalassobacillus devorans MSP14 genomic scaffold scaffold00007,
whole genome shotgun sequence.
ACCESSION KI543240 AWXW01000000
VERSION KI543240.1 GI:557884536
....
CONTIG join(I from V034512:1..1596,gap(720),<F6>#2066515663.1:1..2960)
//
LOCUS KI629878 42039 bp DNA linear CON 04-DEC-2013
DEFINITION Porphyromonas gingivalis SJD2 genomic scaffold scaffold15, whole
genome shotgun sequence.
ACCESSION KI629878 ASYL01000000
VERSION KI629878.1 GI:563396947
....
CONTIG join(gi|563396143:1..42039)
//
LOCUS KI629953 4352 bp DNA linear CON 04-DEC-2013
DEFINITION Porphyromonas gingivalis SJD2 genomic scaffold scaffold83, whole
genome shotgun sequence.
ACCESSION KI629953 ASYL01000000
VERSION KI629953.1 GI:563396869
....
CONTIG join(NZ_LPVH116484131.1:1..4352)
//
As of approximately 2:08pm EST on Wednesday December 18 2013, the release
files containing these records were patched and reinstalled at the NCBI FTP
site:
-r--r--r-- 1 ftp anonymous 20119739 Dec 18 19:08 gbcon229.seq.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 ftp anonymous 9763701 Dec 18 19:08 gbcon230.seq.gz
The ASN.1 version of GenBank 199.0 was not affected.
The cause of this problem is the same as the one which impacted the contents
of the October 16th 2013 CON-division GenBank Incremental Update. Please
refer to the GenBank newsgroup post of October 18th for further details.
As was the case for the incremental update problem, we once again have
several users at Chemical Abstracts Services (www.cas.org) to thank for
detecting the problem in the GenBank 199.0 release files. We appreciate the
scrutiny of GenBank data products that our users provide, and appreciate
problem reports.
Our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.
Mark Cavanaugh
GenBank
NCBI/NLM/NIH/HHS
