Xref: utzoo bionet.molbio.genbank:68 news.software.nntp:450 Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!genbank!bionet!ig!benton From: benton@presto.IG.COM (David Benton) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Distributing GenBank over the Internet Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 03:06:07 GMT References: <1989Dec7.213027.8591@phri.nyu.edu> Followup-To: bionet.molbio.genbank Organization: IntelliGenetics, Inc. Lines: 32 Roy Smith wrote: > Would it be possible to get rid of all this magtape and distribute > GenBank over the Internet? One possibility is being able to ftp the > tar files. Another more interesting possibility ....... We are pleased to announce that the current GenBank release is now available for FTP from the GenBank On-Line Service FTP directory. Release 61 can be found in the directory ftp/pub/db/gb-rel61. All data and index files in compressed format can be found in that directory. The data files alone comprise approximately 27 MB (compressed) and the indexes and text files an additional 4 MB. Anonymous access to the GenBank FTP directories (which include, in addition to the most recent quarterly release of GenBank, weekly update files for both the GenBank and EMBL nucleotide sequence data banks and contributed software) is available by login to genbank.bio.net. Use the username "anonymous" and give your surname as the password. While we have not tested the recent Bitnet FTP on large files, we are urging Bitnet users to exercise restraint until the impact of transferring large databases on the network can be determined. Sincerely, David Benton GenBank Manager 415-962-7360 benton@genbank.ig.com