This is to announce the availability of release 175.0 of the GenPept(R)
(GenBank Gene Products) Database.  GenPept is provided in a format similar
to that formerly distributed by GenBank(R) under the administration of
Intelligenetics Inc.  This GenPept release IS _NOT_ AN OFFICIAL RELEASE FROM
THE NCBI-GENBANK, but an attempt to provide a data file format compatible
with existing software products.  

This data format is suitable as an input data file for the GCG program
genbanktogcg -genpept.  Compatibility with other software has not been tested.

Site:      ftp.ncifcrf.gov

Directory: pub/genpept
Files:     gprel.txt.gz, gpdat.seq.gz, gpdat.fasta.gz

Directory: pub/genpept/divisions
Files:     1 file for each GenBank file

Directory: pub/genpept/updates  (daily, cumulative)
Files:     gpseq_updates.dat.gz

Rel. Date: 18-Dec-2009

If you have questions or comments concerning this data, or you experience any
difficulty in downloading the data via ftp, please contact:

Gary Smythers  smyth...@mail.nih.gov  301-846-5778

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