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From: smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re:  Updates of GenBank via USENET: comparison with V65.0.
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.165806.6947@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 20:58:06 GMT
References: <9010301510.AA03412@histone.lanl.gov>
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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In article <9010301510.AA03412@histone.lanl.gov>, pgil%histone@LANL.GOV (Paul Gilna) writes:

> GenBank's collaboration with EMBL has reached a point where we are
> beginning to implement a data exchange syntax that will allow updating
> of data between the two databases. The goal in this process is to bring
> the two databases to the point where they are functionally equivalent,
> ....
> In the meantime we struggle with the current means of merging each
> other's data. One aspect of this process at GenBank requires that we
> take a tape release from EMBL, work out what is new or updated, convert
> it to GenBank format and merge it with the GenBank database. ....
> ... We reasoned that there was not much point in mounting these
> entries on the servers, as they are merely limited versions of existing
> data already present on the EMBL and GenBank-On-line servers.
> 
> It is thus very likely that the discrepancy between the USENET 
> distributions and the tape release is accounted for by these entries.

If this is indeed the reason for the significant discrepancy then part of the
'solution' to the problem would be to get these EMBL 'updates' posted to
USENET as well. Is this practical to do?  In the meantime we will look to see 
if these new sequences are part of the unannotated part of the tape 
distribution.  Thanks for the help!

I do not think, however, that this is a reason to delay a scheme for checking 
the feed already sent out.  

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