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smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (08/22/90)

In article <Aug.20.22.46.03.1990.25527@turbo.bio.net>, lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes:

> I suppose what I ought to do is to add a line in the header with a
> sequence number and have associated with each sequence number the
> accession numbers in a particular posting.  That way if you do lose
> some in transit you'll be able to figure out which ones.

That is not a bad idea, but if you know you have lost sequence number 59, as 
an example, how will you know which sequences you have missed?  You are going 
to keep an accessible file somewhere with all the sequence numbers and 
associated loci?

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