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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson)
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Subject: Re: What's in EMBL that's not in GenBank?
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Date: 16 Jul 89 22:02:27 GMT
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In article <3863@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
]
]	Can anybody who has used both the EMBL and GenBank nucleotide
]databases tell me how much (if anything) is in one that isn't in the other?
]We currently have a subscription to GB and are considering subscribing to
]EMBL.  If there isn't really anything in EMBL that isn't already in GB, then
]it isn't worth the cost and effort (and, more importantly, disk space) to
]maintiain both.  The same question applies to SWISS-PROT and Dayhoff (PIR).
]-- 
]Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
]455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
]{att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
]"The connector is the network"

	This is a question that is best answered by the U. Wiconsin
people, or a subscriber to their software.  They distribute a version
of the EMBL database that has had Genbank entries removed.  I checked
the size of the EMBL file, it is approximately 10% larger than the PRIMATE
file on GENBANK.

Bill Pearson