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From: eddy@stjude.org (Pat Eddy)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: Reminder: GenBank archive-server
Message-ID: <613@stjude.org>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:52:16 GMT
References: <8904031754.AA13486@benden>
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In article <8904031754.AA13486@benden>, dbd%benden@LANL.GOV (Dan Davison) writes:
> The University of Houston Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences
>                                 And
>                        University Computing Center 
>                      announce the availability of a
> 
>                          GENBANK-SERVER
> 
> 
> 
> This is a mail response facility which will return a specific GenBank
> entry requested via e-mail.  The request must specify one, and only one,
> locus name (from the LOCUS line) from the GenBank sequence database.
> 
> 
> The server can be accessed on the Internet and UUCP  *only* at this time.
> Future connection through BITNET is possible.
> 
> Please be aware that a mail response program is not "smart" and can
> only respond to a limited set of commands.  The full indexing of GenBank
> (author, accession number, journal citation) are NOT available.
> 
> The address to use is
> 			genbank-server@uhnix2.uh.edu           (Internet)
> or
> 			...uhnix2!genbank-server               (Usenet)
> 
> and your request can consist of one of the following:
> 
> HELP 
> SEND LOCUS genbank_locus_name_
> SEND INDEX
> SEND HELP (this may also work)
> 
> "HELP" will result in a small help file being sent back.
> 
> SEND LOCUS genbank_locus_name will return via e-mail the requested locus
> if it exists, and an error message if it does not.  Index files are
> available; ask for the master index via SEND INDEX and there will be more
> information sent back.
> 
> Server Policies:
> 
> The server runs every half hour and will handle only *one* request at a
> time.  If you want more than one entry, send in separate requests.
> Large GenBank entries (Lambda, EBV, tobacco and liverwort chloroplasts)
> may not make it through the thread of mailers.  UUCP mailers, in 
> particular, silently enforce a limit of 64,000 characters in a single
> mail message.  Note also that Usenet mail is very unreliable; you should
> consult the "pathalias" database to construct a mail path from
> your machine to uhnix2.  A local Unix mail wizard may be able to help.
> 
> In the near future we will add access by accession number. It is
> highly recommended that you get the help file, which explains the
> version of GenBank being distributed and the update policy.
> 
> The server contains a simple response to someone asking for too many
> loci or otherwise abusing the service: it stops working for them. 
> Please restrict your requests to no more than one or two a day; if 
> the demand is too great the service will randomly choose requests
> to ignore, or will be stopped altogether.
> 
> Questions can be sent to dd@lanl.gov (Internet) or dd%lanl.gov@CUNYVM(BITNET).
> Requests to talk to a human rather than a mail response program should
> be sent to archive-managment@uhnix2.uh.edu.
> 
>
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