EMGLib Release 5 (December 2003)

The release 5 of EMGLib (the Enhanced Microbial Genomes Library) is now available through anonymous FTP at:

The distribution includes:

• The flat version of EMGLib in GenBank format (file EMGLib.seq).

• The ACNUC index tables (files ACCESS, AUTHOR, BIBLIO, EXTRACT, KEYWORDS, LOCUS, LONGL, SHORTL, SMJYT, SPECIES, SUBSEQ, and TEXT).

• Two help files used respectively with the Query (HELP) and Query_win programs (HELP_WIN).

In a way to run EMGLib, you must install a copy of Query_win on your computer. The architectures presently supported are: Sun Solaris, IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha, Silicon Graphics, HP/UX, Linux PC, MacOS Classic and Windows 95.

It is also possible to access EMGLib through two World-Wide Web servers located at:

EMGLib release 5 contains 174 sequences from 141 complete bacterial and archaeal genomes. These 174 entries total 434,648,385 bases and they contain 404,721 protein genes, 7138 tRNA, 1409 rRNA, 6 snRNA, 8 scRNA and 239 other miscellaneous RNA.