Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: MJB1@VMS-SUPP.CAM.AC.UK Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.seqnet Subject: SEQNET Bulletin Message-ID: <5036@ig.ig.com> Date: 8 Feb 88 10:33:24 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 49 From: MJB1@VMS-SUPP.CAM.AC.UK Bulletin_# 74 Christian Burks 5 Feb 88 Genbank Changes To: SEQNET@CAM.PHX Date: 6 Feb 1988 Subj: GenBank changes Received: from lanl.gov by NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK via Satnet with SMTP id aa00441; 6 Feb 88 1:34 GMT Received: by LANL.GOV (5.54/1.14) id AA06065; Fri, 5 Feb 88 18:23:21 MST Received: by intron.lanl.gov (3.2/5.17) id AA05754; Fri, 5 Feb 88 18:34:45 MST Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 18:34:45 MST From: cb < (Christian Burks)cb%intron@gov.lanl> Message-Id: <8802060134.AA05754@intron.lanl.gov> To: MJB1@uk.ac.cambridge.vax-vms.support Subject: Re: SEQNET Bulletin Cc: cb Marcella Attimonelli: Thank you very much for your suggestions and corrections...when we made the SITES -> FEATURES conversion, we tried to be completely systematic, but you've obviously caught a few examples where we fell short. We appreciate your letting us know. We are working with EMBL to try and eliminate differences between the data items in their and our databases...in the meantime, we have adopted the use of the COMMENT field in GenBank for parking EMBL features we have not been able to automatically translate into GenBAnk format. This of course is not the optimal solution, but it at least avoids the data being lost altogether at times when we can't devote the resources to translating the entries by hand. I am sorry if the disappearance of SITES caught you by surprise...I had thought that BBN announced this change in release 52 and/or 53; yours is the first negative feedback we've had (though I do know of others who've used the SITES, too). Please let us know if you encounter any further inconsistencies in the database, and we'll do our best to address them. Christian Burks Los Alamos National Laboratory GenBank