Peter.Stoehr@embl.bitnet (Peter Stoehr) (12/06/90)
Mike Cherry writes in: Message-ID: <9012060337.AA23618@genbank.bio.net> .. >A couple of notable observations from these numbers. The total number >of new sequences has decreased about three fold for the Oct/Nov period >as compared to the Aug/Sep period. EMBL is now (Oct/Nov period) >releasing about three times the number of new sequences as GenBank. >However in the Aug/Sep period the two databases released about the same >number. > >I would be interested in your thoughts as to what might have caused the >decrease in new sequences. .. I do not wish to give a blow by blow account of all the statistics you quoted about EMBL/GenBank productivity, but just a few points: - the data available from the EMBL file server is not just new data entered at EMBL, but also that sent from GenBank and DDBJ which also enters the EMBL RDBMS. We do not distinguish between these sources, so you cannot use the NEWENTRIES.NDX index as I think you have. - the index contains updates to existing entries as well as entirely new ones. Numbers of updates performed in a given period can fluctuate wildly, even more so those that get reflected in the index itself. Regards Peter Stoehr EMBL Data Library