dbd@THEORY.BCHS.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (08/03/90)
Now that the database wunderkunds at EMBL, IG, LANL, and NLM have broken all the existing code for reading the GenBank feature tables, which members of that elite are going to contribute the parsing code in C, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, and who knows what else for those biologists out there who *aren't* whiz-bang programmers but have real work to get done, and can't afford commerical packages? Great implementation guys. dan
jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) (08/04/90)
Is there a description and/or example of the new table format available? I suppose I just need a pointer to a site with GB 64 that I could peek at (genbank.bio.net doesn't seem to have the release notes). <Joe -- Joe Smith University of Pennsylvania jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics (215) 898-8348 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059
benton@genbank.BIO.NET (David Benton) (08/04/90)
The full DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank Feature Table Definition document is
available from GenBank (or EMBL or DDBJ) on request. Please send
you postal address to genbank@genbank.bio.net and we'll send a paper
copy right away. An abbreviated description is available in the
GenBank Release 64 release notes which are available for anonymous
FTP from genbank.bio.net (see ~ftp/pub/db/gb-rel64/gbrel.txt).
Example entries with the new feature table format have been included
as an appendix to the GenBank release notes for magnetic tape releases
since the December 1989 release (Rel 62).
- David Benton
GenBank Manager (for now)
benton@karyon.bio.net