Stuart,
This may be a function of how SRS (or the GCG variant Lookup) is
configured at a particular server. At IUBIo Archive, I revised the
indexing for SRS to make sure the Genbank comment fields were
searchable. As a test of your question, I just now searched
the Genbank EST section at IUBIo, searching "Comment" fields
for "BLAST", and found 165 matches.
Feel free to use this SRS server for Genbank lookups.
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu:81/srs/srsc
- Don
In article <browns02-3010961305560001 at mcrcr1.med.nyu.edu>,
Stuart M. Brown <browns02 at mcrcr.med.nyu.edu> wrote:
>We are doing a bunch of BLAST searches with the EST database.
>>I just got an idea - since these est's are routinely BLASTed
>before they are submitted- and these results are generally noted
>in the comment field, why can't I search the EST database for
>comments that mention BLAST hits against my sequences of interest?
>>I've tried LOOKUP- but the "All text" field does not appear to
>include the comment field of the GenBank entry. I also
>tried ENTREZ with only a bit more success - yet I can see mentions
>of my sequence in the comments when I do my own BLAST searches and
>then read the full annotation of the ESTs that we hit.
>--
-- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana u--bloomington--gilbertd at bio.indiana.edu
