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From: ODONNELL@arcb.afrc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Database software
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Date: 3 Aug 90 17:17:00 GMT
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A faint echo of Dan Davisons remarks here. I understood what he
meant first time, and I sympathise.

New NAQ?
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How about some super-duper s/w to allow VAXes to cope with the vast increase
in Dbase size? NAQ is getting old, and is very slow in coping.

Dbases in bits
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I know I am supposed to use Genbank and EMBL divided up into chunks, but
that means the average user has to do the same search several times on
several different bits of the dbase. And I just KNOW someone (the average
biologist user) will moan at me that the PRIMATE data is not in the
VERTEBRATE data - and why not?

Fast indexing
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Yes - I would like something like the OWL database - Index files larger
than the database itself. But I don't have the disk space, and I'm
asking for more disk space than Administration has (what!!!!! you CAN'T
need that much!)

Shopping list
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I would like a means of processing my own original dbases to work in conjunction
with some new s/w ie:Faster indices. An NAQ with the ACCESSION number feature
in instead of having to create something for PSQ.


You're doing a good job
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And how many of you out there are tinkering with the old PIR programs with
each release of Genbank and EMBL, everytime the format changes. Be brave -
we are the unsung heros! Anyone else suffer EMBL23's entry XLRN01
which  had > 25 lines before the DE line?

This is where the computer-literate biologists end up: computing support!

I am not complaining - I enjoy the challenge, but I can think of other
things to do.

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Cary O'Donnell			Tel: (+44) 582 762271 ext 226
AFRC Computing Centre		Fax: (+44) 582 761710
West Common			email: ODONNELL@UK.AC.AFRC.ARCB
Harpenden			(Molecular biology support at AFRCCC)
Herts AL5 2JE
U.K.    			(AFRC = Agricultural & Food Research Council)

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