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From: ag24@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Aubrey de Grey (Genetics))
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Subject: Re: Promoter Database
Date: 3 Nov 1995 23:20:35 GMT
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Dear Dr. Nutter,

The text of the abstract you mention indicates that the "Drosophila Promoter
Database" in question is not a stand-alone database but rather an extracted
subset of melanogaster sequences from the Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD)
which was expanded by reference to GenBank sequences.  There is no wording
to indicate that the database had been or would be made available in its
own right.

EPD is available from EMBL at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/epd.

Cheers, Aubrey de Grey
FlyBase

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