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- We describe a set of programs for creating and using indexes for the
- distributed forms of the major sequence libraries. The indexes conform to
- the specification of those distributed on cd-rom by the EMBL sequence
- library. The programs create entry name, accession number, author and
- freetext indexes and a brief directory index. If a suitable application
- program is given an entry name or accession number these indexes allow
- rapid retrieval of sequences or annotation. Similarly the author and
- freetext indexes provide the data for extremely fast searching on author
- names and "keywords". The indexing programs can create indexes for EMBL,
- Swiss-Prot, GenBANK, PIR and NRL3d libraries. We also describe the
- organisation and use of the different sequence libraries and their index
- files.
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