Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!av8tr!elliston From: elliston@av8tr.UUCP (Keith Elliston) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: accession no. won't return sequence Summary: same problem once before... Message-ID: <571@av8tr.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 90 17:30:17 GMT References: <1990Oct12.164624.1@rsbs0.anu.oz> Organization: Aviators Online BBS, Somerville, NJ Lines: 30 In article <1990Oct12.164624.1@rsbs0.anu.oz>, jjw@rsbs0.anu.oz@ writes: > I've got a problem. (No flames please!) I am trying to obtain a > sequence, the accession number of which is given in a recent paper (PNAS > vol 87, pp5397-5401, by Feiler and Jacobs). The paper states that the > sequence had been deposited in the GenBank data base and an accesion number > was given, X53035. I have tried with no success to obtain the sequence from > and from the EMBL server ( I don't have the address I have seen this at least once myself lately. The sequence of the D3 receptor was published in Science a few weeks ago, with an accession number. I tried to get the sequence from the Genbank server, Genbank online, and from the EMBL server. I kept trying, and after about a week it finally showed up at EMBL. I also have noticed that at least Genbank has been known to give out accession numbers without actually having the sequence in hand. Perhaps it is time to standardize things, such that when an accession number is finally granted, the data will be available for accession. This might impede the publication of a paper that needs the accession number before publication, but would stop all this frustrating business of trying to track down the data. just my $0.02 Keith uunet!av8tr!elliston -- =============================================================================== Keith O. Elliston | .signature really under construction.... uunet!av8tr!elliston | ===============================================================================