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Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genome-program
Subject: Re: GenBank Parser
Keywords: genome,parser
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.213650.7478@nlm.nih.gov>
Date: 24 Sep 90 21:36:50 GMT
References: <922@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> <1885@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Reply-To: states@artemis.NLM.NIH.GOV (David States)
Organization: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
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In article <1885@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:
>In article <922@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> read@cs.utexas.edu (Rob) writes:
>>*  Does anyone have a lexer/parser for the GenBank Feature Table?
>>*  Would anone want one if wrote one?
>
>This is an excellent idea.  But it depends on a "Definition of Genbank", a
>document that (to my knowledge) not ever made public...

We have a parser which translates the new GenBank format to the data formats
defined in the GenInfo ASN.1 definition.  It should be released with
the NCBI software toolkit distribution later this fall.  Sources and
documentation will be placed in the anonymous ftp site "ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" 
subdirectories ./toolbox and ./tech-reports when they are available
(not yet).

>>Robert L. Read				University of Texas
>>read@cs.utexas.edu			Center for High Performance
>>(512)-477-1240				Computation
>
>  Tom Schneider
>  National Cancer Institute
>  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
>  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>  toms@ncifcrf.gov

David States
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Nation Library of Medicine