Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael Cherry) (01/29/91)
Archive-name: bionet/molbio/geninfo-backbone/1991-01-25 Archive-directory: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:/toolbox/asn_0.5/ [130.14.20.1] Original-posting-by: Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael Cherry) Original-subject: Re: A question for FTP users Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <CMM.0.88.664670183.kristoff@genbank.bio.net> kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) writes: > The people at NCBI will be running the next GenBank contract > and have it in their charter to develop standards. I would hope that > they would comment on these issues. NCBI has already held developers > meetings on their proposed ASN.1 standard which I hope people are > anticipating. Please forgive my nitnicking that follows but I'd hate to see things get more confused. This is not directed to Dave's posting I just quoted it so you would see were things start. The NCBI proposed database standard is built using a transaction/notation standard called ASN.1. ASN.1 has been adopted by several commercial computer and software companies for a variety of applications. ASN.1 is not the name of the NCBI standard. I believe the NCBI refers to the database format by the name of their nascent database - GenInfo Backbone. You can retrieve a copy of the the GenInfo Backbone format version 0.5 via anonymous ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Look in the toolbox/asn_0.5 directory. [Additional text deleted. --Ed] Mike Cherry cherry@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu Department of Molecular Biology Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 617-726-5955