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    ****           acedb: A C. elegans Database               ****
    **** Richard Durbin (Sanger Centre, UK) rd@sanger.ac.uk   ****
    **** Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, France) mieg@kaa.cnrs-mop.fr****
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last edited: February 1995