VCORCES.BISHOP@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (John Bishop) (07/21/89)
Dear bboard members I have recently used sequences in the GENBANK release on BIONET of the gene for drosophila white. It has in the 14kb's of sequence a few errors. The EMBL version was sent corrections by the author about 2 years ago and was finally updated the end of '88. As of the April release of GENBANK no corrections have been made. IF YOU ARE WORKING ON A GENE AND IT IS NOT IN ONE DATABASE BUT IS IN THE OTHER THAT OMMISSION IS very,very IMPORTANT! Should be obvious but I ROUTINELY find one dabase has the sequence I want and it is lacking in the other--the really interesting genes often are the newest and only enter one or the other database at a time. GET BOTH!!!! John Bishop Johns Hopkins U - Dept. of Biology vcorces.bishop@bionet-20 -------