AJB@dlvh.daresbury.ac.uk (08/25/90)
Michael Gribskov mentioned the LEEDS FEATURES DATABASE compiled by John Wootton (the correct email address is WOOTTON@GOV.NIH.NLM.NCBI) and Rachel Nicolson (RACHEL@UK.AC.LEEDS.BIOVAX) with data retrieval software being written by myself (AJB@UK.AC.DARESBURY.DLVH). The position with regard to availability of this database is a little murky wrt intellectual property rights but this confusion should be resolved shortly. The database comprises 3 sections a) Comment information b) Discriminating 2-dimensional matrices describing each feature which can be used to scan a single sequence or a database. c) Hit lists found by scanning the OWL non-redundant protein sequence database with the matrices. Currently around 100 features are described. The database + software can be accessed free of charge by any academic with a userid on the UK.AC.DARESBURY.DLVH computer. Application forms can be obtained by contacting USER INTERFACE GROUP SERC DARESBURY LABORATORY DARESBURY WARRINGTON UK WA4 4AD email UIG@UK.AC.DARESBURY Tel: (0925) 603351 and asking for SEQNET (DLVH) forms (ask for the ISIS form as well). I suggest that US folk contact John with questions of availability. I'll contact this BB once the database is more easily available. It is annoying that beaurocracy ALWAYS gets in the way :-( Alan Bleasby