Announcement: GenPept 163.0 available

[Gary Smythers]

This is to announce the availability of release 163.0 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

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

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

Rel. Date: 26-Dec-2007

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

Gary Smythers g...@ncifcrf.gov 301-846-5778
or
Bob Stephens bo...@ncifcrf.gov

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Gary W. Smythers [Contractor]
Programmer Analyst IV
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center
SAIC NCI-Frederick
PO Box B, Bldg 430
Frederick, MD 21702-1201 USA
g...@ncifcrf.gov
(301) 846-5778
FAX:(301) 846-5762
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