mathog at seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog) writes:
>Is the NCBI going to continue the Genbank Fasta e-mail server?
>If yes, could someone please post the details?
>If no, why not?
I was told so time ago by people at NCBI that there are no plans to do
so, but also that this might be reconsidered.
I will add myself that FASTA and BLAST use different database formats,
and this consumes lots of disk space. As the databases continue to
grow it would be nice to consolidate formats for searching programs.
Don't forget that EMBL provides a FASTA server at the address
fasta at embl-heidelberg.de. The added load of everyone migrating there
from genbank.bio.net on top of their current users might be a bit much
however. I'll leave further comments to the folks from EMBL and NCBI.
Sincerely,
Dave Kristofferson
GenBank Manager for 4 more days
kristoff at genbank.bio.net
