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From: kramer@beasley.CS.ORST.EDU (Jack Kramer - Biophysics)
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Subject: Re:  Update - re status of Japanese Flat DB server
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Date: 28 May 91 18:39:05 GMT
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In article <9105281658.AA02439@histone.lanl.gov> pgil@HISTONE.LANL.GOV (Paul Gilna) writes:
>
>One postscript re DDBJ:
>
>All data processed by DDBJ (with the exception of confidential data)
>are passed to GenBank on a regular basis and incorporated
>immediately into the on-line flatfile servers and RDBMS satellites;
>These data are in turn propagated to EMBL and their distribution nodes.
>Hence data from DDBJ are available to users of the GenBank and
>EMBL sequence retrieval and searching facilities. Confidential
>data are passed to us either upon expiration of hold dates or when
>either of the three databases (or increasingly, the community)
>"spot" the published data.
>
>Paul Gilna
>GenBank, Los Alamos 

The real value of the DDBJ flat file server was not necessarily
limited to the availability of just the DDBJ.  It was the only
site which provided anonymous ftp access to the distribution
format data from "ALL" repositories.  Most especially this
included the NBRF/PIR data which the NBRF still refuses to connect
to Internet since they would still rather ship the tapes and
collect their "shipping and handling" charges.

It was also very convenient to be able to access all the databases
at one high bandwidth site.

I am sorry to see that they too have now acceeded to the for profit
crowd.

Jack Kramer