database access GenBank

[Philippe Dessen]

> 
> In response to Charles:
> www.ca.embnet.org is designed to provide sequences to everybody this
> way. Like most EMBnet (European Molecular Biology network) sites it
> has an SRS server. The Canadian node is the only one I know that
> provides GenBank this way, most of us provide EMBL instead.
> You can play interactively with the Canadian server directly by using:
>   http://www.ca.embnet.org/srs6.1/
> It should then become clear what the DB entry is doing.
> 
> As an addendum the original query was solved (typically) behind the scenes
> and was just an emboss.default file in the wrong place. I'm tempted
> to put this file in the emboss directory itself under a filename like:
> emboss.default.example . Historically the file is where it is to
> avoid new installations overwriting your own copy but the above would serve
> the same purpose.
> 
> Alan
> 
> (http://srs.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/srs6/)
> 
> 
In the old EMBnet world, INFOBIOGEN offers GenBank on its SRS server since 1993 ...
http://www.infobiogen.fr/srs6/.

Regards

Philippe Dessen