newsmgr at merrimack.edu wrote:
> Using NCBI's Entrez (at least the network version) one can search for the
> term "biomol genomic" using the field "Properties" in the nucleotide
> databases. This is guaranteed to find ONLY those sequences that are from
> genomic DNA, not mRNA/cDNA. Of course you still gotta look at the entry to
Is it really "guaranteed"? My understanding is that there are
some entries-- perhaps only older ones-- for which one must
actually go back to the primary literature to determine for
certain whether or not the sequence is genomic. Have all these
been retro-fitted to the new standard?
Arlin
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Arlin Stoltzfus, Ph.D. (arlin at is.dal.ca)
Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7 CANADA
phone: 902-494-2968 fax: 902-494-1355
