>In article <1992Nov20.022102.12238 at Princeton.EDU>, lpcasson at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Lawrence P. Casson) writes:
>>PROBLEM: I would like to retrieve complete mouse T-lymphocyte receptor
>>variable domain sequences, and avoid having to deal with the small
>>fragments that constitute many of the GenBank entries.
>>>>I'm assuming that the Kabat and Wu database is the best place to start.
I do not know of anyone that has indexed the Kabat databases and
provides a mechanism to retrieve individual sequences.
I have converted the Kabat amino acid database into GenPept format so
that the GCG utilities can be used. I used the Kabat 5.0 (beta) amino
acid database. It is available via anonymous ftp from
amber.mgh.harvard.edu as follows:
cd genbank
get kabat.genpept
Once on your system you can use: GENBANKTOGCG/GENPEPT to convert this
text file into a GCG formated database. After then running SEQCAT you
can use STRINGS and FETCH to retrieve the specific sequences you want.
Mike Cherry
