Objective
Production and distribution of the EMBL nucleotide sequence database in a period of rapid growth. Data will be distributed to users on magnetic tape and CD-ROM and over computer networks. Development work will be undertaken for future nucleotide sequence databases.
Hardware and software have been developed and data processing procedures refined allowing 3 times faster data entry. 4 releases were successfully delivered. The nucleotide sequence database grew to over 80 million base pairs. The first data from major genome sequencing projects has entered the database.
The main task of the data library is the production, maintenance and distribution of the nucleotide sequence database. This is done in close collaboration with GenBank in the USA and the DNA Database of Japan. In the last few years some effort has also been dedicated to the provision of other data: protein sequences, the eukaryotic promoter database and restriction enzyme information for example.
Data are collected from journals and direct submissions by researchers. Entering biological sequences into the database is only a small part of the work. The largest single kind of work is annotation of these sequences: extracting the biological information from the literature and casting it in a form suitable for inclusion in the database. There is also a substantial administrative workload in communicating with researchers about their submissions and with users about their requirements.
The data are distributed to users:
by quarterly releases on magnetic tape and CD-ROM;
using a network fileserver which allows users to request the latest data over computer network;
by daily updates of remote copies at nodes on EMBNet, a computer network connecting a number of European molecular biological computer centres.
During the contract period these services will continue and the development work will be undertaken for a future database which:
takes account of requirements generated by genome scale sequencing and mapping;
provides better linkage to other related databases;
is well adapted to inclusion of data from automated sequencing machines.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications telecommunications networks
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics nucleotides
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data processing
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HEIDELBERG
Germany
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