DNA Data Bank of Japan

                                 DNA Database

                            Release 5, July 1989

                     395 entries, 679378 bases, 23895 lines




             This data base may be copied and redistributed freely,

             without  advance  permission,    provided  that   this

             statement is reproduced with each copy.







             Prepared by:

             Sanzo Miyazawa      Manager/Database Administrator

             Hidenori Hayashida  Scientific Reviewer







                          DNA Data Bank of Japan
                      National Institute of Genetics
                 Center for Genetic Information research
                Laboratory of Genetic Information Analyses


                               1111 Yata
                          Mishima, Shizuoka 411
                                 Japan

                        Phone: +81 559 75 0771 x647
                        FAX:   +81 559 75 6040
                E-mail: ddbj%niguts.nig.junet@relay.cs.net


















             Files included:

             1) ddbjrel.txt: release notes; this document
             2) ddbj.dna: DNA data
             3) ddbj.cds: peptide coding sequences extracted from ddbj.dna
             4) ddbj.pep: peptide sequences translated from ddbj.cds
             5) ddbj.dir: a short directory file
             6) ddbj.acc: an accession number index file
             7) ddbj.jou: a journal index file
             8) ddbjsub.txt: a data submission form

             The 3rd and 4th files above were generated by using
             "seqext" and "pepttr" programs made by Dr. Jim Fickett
             in GenBank, Los Alamos National Laboratory.


             Acknowledgements:

             We thank GenBank for helps, especially for providing us
             with such tools that are useful for quality control in
             data entry.