
                               REPBASE UPDATE
                                      
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   Reference collections represent published examples or consensus
   sequences of repetitive elements from different eukaryotic species.
   
   All reference collections are in flat file FASTA format.
   
   Index to reference collections:
   
   athrep.ref
          Reference collection of A. thaliana repetitive elements.
          (Release 4.1.5)
          
   celrep.ref
          Reference collection of C. elegans repetitive elements.
          (Release 4.0.7)
          
   drorep.ref
          Reference collection of D. melanogaster repetitive elements.
          (Release 4.0.0)
          
   humrep.ref
          Reference collection of human repetitive elements.
          (Release 7.1.6)
          
   invrep.ref
          Reference collection of invertebrate repetitive elements; not
          including C. elegans or D. melanogaster.
          (Release 4.0.0)
          
   mamrep.ref
          Reference collection of mammalian repetitive elements.
          (Release 5.2.5)
          
   plnrep.ref
          Reference collection of plant repetitive elements; not
          including A. thaliana.
          (Release 4.0.0)
          
   pseudo.ref
          Reference collection of pseudogene repetitive elements.
          (Release 1.0.7)
          
   rodrep.ref
          Reference collection of rodent repetitive elements.
          (Release 3.3.1)
          
   simple.ref
          Reference collection of the most abundant simple sequence
          repeats in primates.
          (Release 3.1)
          
   vrtrep.ref
          Reference collection of vertebrate repetitive elements; not
          including zebra fish.
          (Release 4.0.0)
          
   zebrep.ref
          Reference collection of zebra fish repetitive elements.
          (Release 4.0.0)
          
   humsub.ref
          Reference collection of human repetitive subfamilies.
          (Release 1.0.2) athapp.ref, celapp.ref, droapp.ref, humapp.ref,
          invapp.ref, mamapp.ref, plnapp.ref, pseapp.ref, rodapp.ref,
          vrtapp.ref - Appendices to the Reference collection of
          repetitive elements. Contain sequences that have been part of
          the Reference collection in the past but have since been
          removed or are alternate submissions for existing data.
          
   Direct comments and questions to:
   
   Jerzy Jurka
   jurek@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
   jurka@gnomic.stanford.edu
   jurka@charon.girinst.org
   
                      Last update, February 29, 2000.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   
    by Paul W. Klonowski
    Genetic Information Research Institute
    Sunnyvale, California
    klonowsk@charon.girinst.org

