Dear Colleagues,
To assist submitters the EBI has been providing for some time a
vector screening service using the latest implementation of the
BLAST algorithm and a special sequence databank known as EMVEC.
EMVEC is an extraction of sequences from the SYNthetic division of
EMBL containing more than 2000 sequences commonly used in cloning
and sequencing experiments. EMVEC is by no means a complete vector
databank but it is representative of the kind of material used in
modern sequencing.
After the initial phase we are now prepaping to update this
database with each EMBL database release (every 3 months) and expect
to make EMVEC publicly available from the EBI's network servers
starting from EMBL Release 64 (Sep 2000)
Regards,
Guenter Stoesser
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Guenter Stoesser email: stoesser at ebi.ac.uk
EMBL Outstation - Hinxton tel: +44 (0)1223 494466
European Bioinformatics Institute fax: +44 (0)1223 494472
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK www: http://www.ebi.ac.uk
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> Subject: Vector databank ?
> Date: 26 Jul 2000 10:55:48 GMT
> From: Guy Bottu <gbottu at bigben.vub.ac.be>
> Organization: Belgian EMBnet Node
> Newsgroups: bionet.software.gcg
>> Dear colleagues,
>> For the moment we offer to our users the Vector databank from Intelligenetics,
> which can be retrieved from the anonymous ftp server of the NCBI.
> Unfortunately, this databank is not updated anymore since 1996. So, we
> are searching for a replacement.
> Do you know a publicly available, regularly updated databank of vector
> sequences ? The databanks that EMBL or Genbank use to screen for vector
> contamination maybe, but I did not see a server from where to retrieve
> them.
>> Thanks in advance,
> Guy Bottu
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