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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
Subject: obtaining Genbank
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.220009.3483@crom2.uucp>
Organization: Abbey Technologies - Athens GA
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 22:00:09 GMT


     What's the best strategy for obtaining Genbank if you're stuck out 
here in uucp-only-land?  I finally found the right button to push to get
the EMBL mail server to send me prices and order forms for the tapes and
CDs they distribute; is there a similar address for Genbank information?
I'm looking for the data in a format searchable by fasta as distributed
by the University of Virginia (fasta.shar).  I presently have a bionet
feed paid for out of personal funds and it's painful to see the updates
scroll past and then get dropped on the floor by C news expire after only
a week on the system.  
    I'm not averse to spending a reasonable amount of money to obtain
Genbank, but I'm not interested in spending thousands just to get a pro-
prietary format and a self-proclamed "user-friendly" front end.  I thought
(briefly) of trying to get it from UH via the Princeton BITFTP server but
suspect that if I tried to get anything that huge via BITFTP the people
at Princeton would blackball me for the rest of eternity (and quite right,
too.)  I'm not asking the net.people to do my homework for me, but I would
greatly appreciate any bright ideas and/or pointers to appropriate sources
of information.  Remember, I can't FTP.
                                              Thanks very much,
                                              James P. H. Fuller

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