EMBL 51 release

The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database was frozen to make Release 51 on the 22nd May 1997. The release contains 1,432,941 sequence entries comprising 931,351,601 nucleotides. This represents an increase of about 18% over Release 50. A breakdown of Release 51 by division is shown below:

Division Entries Nucleotides Bacteriophage ESTs Fungi GSSs HTG Human Invertebrates Organelles Other Mammals Other Vertebrates Plants Prokaryotes Rodents STSs Synthetic Unclassified Viruses 1355 1019912 16511 20130 2633 66773 23890 19263 12498 11532 19309 37614 34259 46845 13609 45567 41241 2016704 370820548 40756112 12023789 66099956 81623879 89071996 18861639 12355192 12901146 24177727 81791221 40023388 16074720 6837913 14829126 41086545 Total plus: Other patents 1432941 5109 931351601 412041 Grand Total 1438050 931763642

Cross-references to MENDEL Database Added

At this release cross-references in the form of DR lines to the MENDEL database of plant gene nomenclature have been added. The Mendel database project aims to develop a common nomenclature for sequenced genes, based on gene families, for all photosynthetic organisms, the organelle genomes of both photsynthetic organisms (fungi, algae, and protozoa) and plant viruses. It is run under the auspices of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB) by the Commission for Plant Gene Nomenclature (CPGN) database group at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. An example of such a DR line looks like this:

DR MENDEL; 202; ZEAma;Lhc0;1.

where 202 is the Mendel number, ZEAma;Lhc0;1 being the gene symbol.

Resources and further information

• European Bioinformatics Institute
  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
• Latest EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
  ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/
• Full release notes of EMBL 51 (25 Kb)
  http://bioinformer.ebi.ac.uk/newsletter/archives/2/EMBL51-rel easenotes.txt
• John Innes Centre
  http://www.uea.ac.uk/nrp/jic/jic.htm
• MENDEL database of plant gene nomenclature
  http://jiio6.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/

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