Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!labrea!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!jes From: jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: relational genbank format Message-ID: Date: 21 Dec 88 03:20:56 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: bionet Organization: U. of Penn., Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics Lines: 17 Could someone explain (briefly!) the proposal for moving Genbank to a ``relational'' format. I wonder why we need (yet) another database format. If this has already been explained, maybe someone could email me some info on this topic; we're new on the net. Joe Smith -- jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 233 Anatomy-Chemistry Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059 (215) 898-8348