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>tony@wehi.dn.mu.oz.au writes:
>... talking about a VMS program that creates a GenBank submission form ...
>	If there is interest, I will try to get time to cut this module from our
>system, and make it a standalone program and make it available for
>anonymous ftp access. 

Please do so.

>	With the arrival of AUTHORIN we thought our program might die a death,
> ... talks about reasons AUTHORIN on a PC/Mac connected via serial lines
> ... to a VMS/UNIX system that has the sequence is not used by users ...

I agree. Our setup at Purdue is PCs/MACs connected to the VMS system mostly by
serial lines; I don't expect this configuration to change in the near future. I
find my users don't like the idea of downloading the sequence to their PC, 
running AUTHORIN, then uploading the authorin-generated file to the VMS system 
in order to mail it. It is easier for them to edit the database form directly 
on the VMS system.

Dave Kristofferson has said that releasing the Authorin format to the general
programming public in order to write a VMS-version of Authorin is not a
good idea. I disagree. The need is obviously there and without an Authorin-
lookalike, VMS sites (and perhaps UNIX sites) are going to continue sending in
the Genbank form instead of an Authorin-generated file thus causing more work
for LANL and GenBank. While I haven't looked closely at the output from 
Authorin, it seems to me that there must be some form of data verification 
built into it. If Genbank released this verification scheme to a few VMS 
programmers, I'm sure an Authorin-lookalike could be safely created.

Dave, if you are reading this, what do the people who use the UNIX 
Intelligenetics package do to submit data to Genbank?


-- Rick

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