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From: Isabel Sauvaget <ISABEL%PASTEUR.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU> PseqIP release 4.0 Announcing PseqIP release 4.0 : Release 4.0 of the PseqIP protein sequence data bank is now available. PseqIP 4.0 includes 8117 different protein sequences for a total of 2 130 642 residues. Description of PseqIP data bank : PseqIP is a nonredondant protein sequence data bank generated by systematic sequence comparison. The previous releases of PseqIP were generated from NBRF-PIR, PSD-Kyoto, PGtrans and NEWAT data banks, in the release 4.0 we added a new protein data bank: SWISS-PROT which contains protein sequences from the PIR protein data bank and translation of nucleic-acid sequences from the EMBL nucleotide data library. Source of data : Release 4.0 has been updated using the following data banks SWISS-PROT release 5.0 5205 entries NBRF-PIR release 13.0 4524 entries PGtrans release 50.0 6697 entries PSD-Kyoto release 2.0 3749 entries NEWAT release 2.0 1140 entries Availability of PseqIP : A flat file of PseqIP 4.0 is available upon request by mail only. We send it on a magnetic tape with the following format : ASCII card image format density 1600 bpi blocksize 4800 80 characters/record The data bank is distributed with the 'C' source code of an implementa- tion program and a homology search program. References : PseqIP: A nonredondant and exhaustive protein sequence data bank generated from 4 major existing collections. J.M Claverie, L. Bricault. Proteins n0 1, 60-65 (1986) SWISS-PROT: A. Bairoch. Medical Biochemistry Department. University of Geneva. 1, rue Michel Servet 1211 GENEVA 4. SWITZERLAND. Please mail requests to: (if possible include a magnetic tape) Jean Michel Claverie, Isabelle Sauvaget (JMC@PASTEUR, ISABEL@PASTEUR) Unite d'Informatique Scientifique Institut Pasteur 25, rue du Dr Roux 75724 PARIS Cedex 15. FRANCE