NRSUB - A NONREDUNDANT DATABASE FOR BACILLUS-SUBTILIS

In the context of the international project aimed at sequencing the wh ole genome of Bacillus subtilis we have developed a non-redundant, ful ly annotated database of sequences from this organism. Starting from t he B.subtilis sequences available in the EMBL, GenBank and DDBJ collec tions we have removed all encountered duplications and then added extr a annotations to the sequences (e.g. accession numbers for the genes, locations on the genetic map, codon usage, etc.) We have also added cr oss-references to the EMBL, MEDLINE, SWISS-PROT and ENZYME data banks. The present system results from merging of the NRSub and SubtiList da tabases and the sequence contigs used in the two systems are identical . NRSub is distributed as a flatfile in EMBL format (which is supporte d by most sequence analysis software packages) and as an ACNUC databas e, while SubtiList is distributed as a relational database under 4th D imension. It is possible to access the data through two dedicated Worl d Wide Web servers located in France and Japan.