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From: rdonis@crcvms.unl.edu
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Subject: Published Genbank Accession number not in Genbank
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Date: 16 Mar 91 03:56:55 GMT
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To the Genbank managers and keepers:

My thanks for the fantastic work you are doing in keeping this great 
resource alive. Of course there are always little things to pick on.

Here is one:

PNAS 88:1711 (March 1991) carries an article on hepatitis C virus 
nucleotide sequences. Accession number: M58406

I did "retrieve@genbank..." and the reply was "no matches on m58406"
meaning the sequence is not available to the rest of us as yet.

This is probably the consequence of the "release after publication date"
clause in the sequence submission form. OK, fine...
but it is frustrating for the rest of us to just keep trying to 
see when the *GENBANK* folks realize that maybe its time to make the 
sequence available.

How many PhDs does it take to come up with a solution to this?

My 2 pennies:
I suggest all the Scientific Journal publishers send Genbank E-mails 
like this:
Nucleic Acids Research; vol 56, number 2. Date: 2-15-91
Accessions to Genbank    M1234
			 M5678
Accessions to EMBL   etc, etc....

Then Genbank folks would perhaps automate moving the accessions included 
in the E-mails from the private to the public GB directory

Next we have to figure out how to get the Presses to do their part, and
send the info to GB. Any ideas?

Ruben Donis
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rdonis@crcvms.unl.edu
402/472-6063