"Confidential" Yeast DNA Sequences

[Reinhard Doelz]

Philip Heacock (pheacock at utmmg.med.uth.tmc.edu) wrote:
: When, if ever, will the "confidential" yeast DNA sequences be released?

I assume that you ask for a timetable of genome sequencing projects. Otherwise,
it depends on the source, and what you call 'confidential'. There are yeast 
genome sequencing projects which have the oblications as written in grants 
(contracts from the EU) stating that the full sequences are to be made 
available at the end of the project upon their completion. Other sequences 
are collected at some sites for internal purposes and, as they are not 
published or generated in a contract-type of environment, will hardly be 
subjected to a defined timetable as the ones as mentioned above. 

One of the concerns raised in the past was the appearance of 'unfinished' 
genomic sequences (not necessarily in yeast), which cover those as made 
available on FTP servers, but are not present in the public databases which 
are typically scanned (EBI/EMBL, Genbank, DDBJ). Be aware of the quality of 
annotation of those sequences. 

Regards
Reinhard 
 
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Reinhard Doelz, Basel, Switzerland