are we losing TRANSFAC ?

[Guy Bottu]

from : BEN

	Dear colleagues,
	
One of the facilities of EMBOSS is access to the TRANSFAC databank through the 
tfscan program. This program risks however to become obsolete, at least for the 
EMBnet Nodes. The TRANSFAC databank from release 5 on has become commercial. You 
must pay to have downloadable flat files and you are not allowed to give access 
to third parties (see http://www.gene-regulation.com). 
Is anyone aware of a solution ? Maybe a special arrangement for EMBnet ? Or 
should we use instead the TFD databank (http://www.ifto.org) ? But that one is 
less complete and the last version dates from April 2000.

 	Guy Bottu