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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Greetings</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recently discovered that about 3000 Refseq
accessions that were present in the 4/2005 release have been withdrawn. The ones
I've looked at appear to be NCBI predictions using their gnomon tool and had
'XM_*' accessions. I'm concerned that a database that is supposed to be stable
is so dynamic. I asked NCBI about it, but didn't get an explanation. Does
anybody have any experience with such large scale withdrawls? Does anybody know
why?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>