The latest version of the PIR-International protein sequence
databank, Release 45, is now available in all forms.
Gopher or Web to
gopher://gopher.bchs.uh.edu
and use "Fast PIR lookup"
Anonymous FTP on
ftp://ftp.bchs.uh.edu/pub/gene-server/pir/pir_rel45/{ascii, vms, vms_lzw}
The formats are
ascii: CODATA format, compressed
vms: Unix compress format of the files used by GCG v. 7 & 8, new NBRF format
vms_lzw: lzcompress format (preserves RMS file characteristics), new NBRF format
If you have problems with these releases, contact davison at uh.edu.
dan davison
gene-server wrangler
