Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!news.miami.edu!molbio.med.miami.edu!jkramer From: jkramer@molbio.med.miami.edu (Jack Kramer) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: RE:A question for FTP users Message-ID: <1991Jan22.050856.25876@news.miami.edu> Date: 22 Jan 91 05:08:56 GMT References: <9101191404.AA18024@genbank.bio.net> Sender: news@news.miami.edu (USENET News System) Organization: U of Miami Molecular Biology Computing Lines: 24 In article kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) writes: >Bruce, > > As I am sure you are aware, it is not in GenBank's charter to >supply the databank in any commercial format. Reformatting costs I think all the comments here have been directed to the commercial distributors. At least my intent was completely in that direction. GenBank is to be commended on providing the original databases for access via Internet. This is definitely not true for all government sponsored sequence databases. Try getting PIR from the NBRF. The number of price lists and order forms they have sent me in response to requests for network access must by now exceed the volume of the actual database. >the production of GenBank tremendously. Reformatting GenBank clearly >belongs where it is right now, in the hands of the commercial vendors. I am completely satisfied with current and planned GenBank formats. And if all the vendors standardized on the GenBank format it would certainly make life much easier. No information is added by any of the proprietary vendors in any of the proprietary formats. And indexing schemes which seem to be the most common justification, work just as well with the original GenBank format as any other.