pkarp@AI.SRI.COM (Peter Karp) (05/01/91)
Yesterday I was startled to learn that the schema for the relational
form of Genbank is available online. Terrific! For others who did
not know this, here is the help text returned by the Genbank mail
server, which tells how to obtain the schema and other sorts of information:
You have reached the email server for Group T-10 at Los Alamos National
Laboratory. This email address is used to request automatic distribution
of various packages of software, documentation and data.
You can request a package from bioserve by sending a message containing
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====> alpar
This is a program to parse sequences from a pre-defined multiple sequence
alignment output.
====> alwin
This is a program that takes aligned sequences and performs a windowed majority
at each offset. The output is suitable for plotting, and is a good visual tool
for finding similarity and dissimilarity in aligned sequences.
====> gb-awb
This is a postscript file for the GenBank Annotator's Workbench manual.
====> gb-journals
In order to avoid duplication of effort, the responsibility for scanning
and maintaining contacts for editorial policies with journals has been
divided between the three databases, GenBank, the EMBL Data Library, and
DDBJ. This is the list of journals that fall in the domain of each database.
====> gb-schema
This is the GenBank schema document.
====> gb-subform
This is the GenBank on-line submission form for use in submitting sequence
data to the GenBank database. This form should be used only if you are
unable to use the Authorin program. For more information, write to
gb-sub%life@lanl.gov.
====> gb-tp
This is the official description of the GenBank Transaction Protocol, including
the current entity definitions. The files are in troff source format.
====> limb-data
This is the flatfle of the LiMB database.
====> limb-info
This is information on the LiMB database.
====> score
A Program for Computer-Assisted Scoring of Southern Blots
====> signal-scan
A program used to find transcriptional elements in DNA sequences
====> trna-scan
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michael%genome@lanl.govkristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (05/02/91)
Peter, The schema has also been available for anonymous ftp from genbank.bio.net in pub/doc/schema for quite some time. Dave