Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Re: accession no. won't return sequence Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 17:37:26 GMT References: <1990Oct13.120400.1@rsbs0.anu.oz> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 35 Jeremy Weinman writes: > Thanks for the reply. I understand the situation now. Only one comment, though: > The PNAS paper the accession number appeared in was July 1990. It's now > mid-October. If that's the usual sort of wait, then I guess I'll just have > to chant a few mantras and wait it out. This delay is definitely outside of our target window, so thank you for notifying us. Paul Gilna at GenBank LANL also replies: > To someone who spots an accession number that cannot be retrieved, I > would request that you do us all a service and inform GenBank directly > (mail to genbank%life@lanl.gov); we can get the annotated data out and > on the servers within 24 hours as soon as we know that the data have > been published. My thanks to Paul for stating LANL's policy here. I just talked to him on the phone however, and Paul emphasized that the above applies to annotated data waiting in the release queue until appearance of the publication. For those who might want to get a jump on the gun, please be aware that GenBank cannot hunt down and release data in advance to people who request the sequence of some particular gene that they may know is in press. The above policy applies only to data that we can verify is published, so everyone will benefit to the maximum if requests for the release of data that are not available on the servers follow these guidelines. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net