5S RIBOSOMAL-RNA DATA-BANK

In this paper we present the updated version of the compilation of 5S rRNA and 5S rDNA nucleotide sequences, It contains 1622 primary struct ures of 5S rRNAs and 5S rRNA genes from 888 species, These include 58 archaeal, 427 eubacterial, 34 plastid, nine mitochondrial and 1094 euk aryotic DNA or RNA nucleotide sequences, The sequence entries are divi ded according to the taxonomic position of the organisms, All individu al sequences deposited in the 5S rRNA Database can be retrieved using the WWW-based, taxonomic browser at http://rose.man.poznan. pl/5SData/ 5SRNA.html or http://www.chemie.fu-berlin. de/fb_chemie/agerdmann/5S_r RNA.html. The files with complete sets of data as well as sequence ali gnments are available via anonymous ftp.