Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: GenBank Release 64 was incomplete Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 12:47:33 GMT References: <9008241347.AA08860@acme.med.unc.edu> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 28 I contacted Dana Fowkles to get further information about the problem. His colleague was also located at the University of North Carolina albeit using a different VAX computer running VMS vs Ultrix on Fowkles' machine. Both also used different FTP implementations and both had truncated gbpln.seq and gbvrl.seq. The only information that I could obtain was that there were no yeast sequences in gbpln.seq. I don't know whether or not their truncated files were exactly the same size. To elaborate on David Benton's posting, we read back in gbpln.seq from a distribution tape and also retrieved the file gbpln.seq.Z from a July 30th backup of the ~ftp/pub/db/gb-rel64 directory; both files (aftering uncompressing the .Z file) were identical and contained over 800 yeast sequences. They also matched the file that was on-line for GOS usage. In conclusion, the problem reported by Dana did not exist in the files that were available here nor in files that were sent out by tape; while I can not track down the cause of his problem since it happened after the data left here, something must have happened either in FTP transmission over the Internet or upon uncompressing the files. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net