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From: pgil@HISTONE.LANL.GOV (Paul Gilna)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Poly A tails
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Date: 1 Feb 91 18:49:40 GMT
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I have a request to make of the "netfolk", as we are revisiting our
annotation editorial procedures with regard to the handling of poly-A
tails in sequences.

In the past, primarily since such sequences have themselves been
presented inconsistently, we have consistently dropped them from the
sequence and annotated the entity as a polyA_site in the features
table.

	What I would like to request from this readership is a user
	view on the relative importance of the absence or presence of
	poly-A *sequence data* to your work with GenBank sequences.


Thanking you in advance,

--paul


Paul Gilna
Biology Domain Leader
GenBank, Los Alamos.