You might want to try MyGenBank. Information is at http://homepage.mac.com/iankorf/mygenbank.html and code can be downloaded at http://mgb.sourceforge.net/download/ It uses MySQL and is fairly easy and lightweight. We've been using it for a couple of years. Good luck. Paul >Hi All, > >I am brand new to this list (and bio clusters in general. . . ). >Just wondering if anybody has any experience downloading and housing >GenBank locally. Any info related to he process used to get the >database and store it would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone >has used Genbank with inquiry, I would be very interested in hearing >from you. > >Thanks, >************************************ >Nick Brockner >System Administrator, Biology Computing Facility >Hamilton College > >_______________________________________________ >Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters