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Bulletin_# 74  Christian Burks 5 Feb 88 Genbank Changes
To: SEQNET@CAM.PHX
Date: 6 Feb 1988
Subj: GenBank changes


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Marcella Attimonelli:

Thank you very much for your suggestions and corrections...when we made
the SITES -> FEATURES conversion, we tried to be completely systematic,
but you've obviously caught a few examples where we fell short.  We
appreciate your letting us know.

We are working with EMBL to try and eliminate differences between the
data items in their and our databases...in the meantime, we have
adopted the use of the COMMENT field in GenBank for parking
EMBL features we have not been able to automatically translate
into GenBAnk format.  This of course is not the optimal solution,
but it at least avoids the data being lost altogether at times
when we can't devote the resources to translating the entries
by hand.

I am sorry if the disappearance of SITES caught you by surprise...I had
thought that BBN announced this change in release 52 and/or 53; yours
is the first negative feedback we've had (though I do know of others
who've used the SITES, too).

Please let us know if you encounter any further inconsistencies in
the database, and we'll do our best to address them.

       Christian Burks
       Los Alamos National Laboratory

       GenBank