Version 2+BLAZE of Genbank Search stack for Macintoshes is
now available. This version incorporates requests to
the BLAZE search server at genbank.bio.net.
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NOTE: The free search services from Gebank.Bio.Net (at
IntelliGenetics) will terminate at the end of September
this year. The National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI) will be providing similar BLAST
search services thru e-mail starting this month. At
that time, there will be a new version of this stack
available.
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GenBank Search is a Macintosh Hypercard stack for
interacting with the computer services from Genbank
at Intelligenetics. These free search and fetch
services thru electronic mail include:
* Searching of the current GenBank databank for similarities
with a query nucleic acid or protein sequence of yours, and
* Retreival of a sequence in the current GenBank by locus
name or accession number.
To use this GenBank Search stack, you must have:
-- a Macintosh with Hypercard version 2, and Mac System 6.0.5
or later
-- that Mac needs to be connected to the national Internet
network, thru an Appletalk or Ethernet cable,
-- your Mac must have the MacTCP communications software,
and Hypercard version 1.2 or later, from Apple Computer,
-- you must have a valid Internet return mail address.
This stack includes a simple sequence editor, so you can
enter your sequence directly here, and it includes features
to read from disk a variety of sequence formats.
GenBank Search stack is available via anonymous FTP or
Internet Gopher to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, in folder
/molbio/mac as gbsearch-ig.hqx.
-- Don
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Don Gilbert gilbert at bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
