SWISS-PROT name -> GenBank AC

[Steve Smith]

Efremov Roman wrote:
> 
>  Dear netters,
>  Could anybody tell me how to get GenBank accession number for a given
> SWISS-PROT sequence name?
>  Thank you in advance. Roman

If you look at the reference section of the SwissProt entry for
lines starting with "DR"  you will see listed the EMBL (and other)
accession numbers.  For example:


thunder_15% typedata sw:opsd_human | grep "^DR"
DR   EMBL; K02281; G386990; -.
DR   EMBL; U49742; G1236137; -.
DR   EMBL; U16824; G575446; -.
DR   PIR; A41200; OOHU.
DR   GCRDB; GCR_0085; -.
DR   MIM; 180380; -.
DR   MIM; 268000; -.
DR   PROSITE; PS00237; G_PROTEIN_RECEPTOR.
DR   PROSITE; PS00238; OPSIN.

thunder_16% typedata genembl:K02281 | head
!!NA_SEQUENCE 1.0
LOCUS       HSU49742     6953 bp    DNA             PRI      
03-SEP-1996
DEFINITION  Human rhodopsin gene, complete cds.
ACCESSION   U49742 K02281
NID         g1236136
KEYWORDS    opsin; rhodopsin.
SOURCE      human.
  ORGANISM  Homo sapiens
            Eukaryotae; mitochondrial eukaryotes; Metazoa; Chordata;
            Vertebrata; Eutheria; Primates; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.

Hope this helps.

Steve Smith
steve.smith at gcg.com