Hello molbio.software buffs, A while ago someone asked about software to utilize databases such as Rich Roberts' REBASE. This is a uuencoded version of rebsearch which searches REBASE for information about restriction enzymes based on their names, prototypes, etc. I am new to posting software to the net but have benefited from the efforts of others in the past. So here is something in return. I don't have shar so I have incorporated it here as a uuencoded, compressed, tar file. To unpack it you need to remove this text from in front of the uuencoded part uudecode thisfile (I call it rebsearch.uue) uncompress rebserch.tar.Z tar xvf rebserch.tar Sorry I could not send it in more accessible form. Hope it's useful, Paul Fisher (micprf@lure.latrobe.edu.au). - - - vers 1.1 Since then I have added another option allowing one to specify a file name for your own enzyme data base. Together with one of the earlier options this allows creation and searching of any desired subsets of the main data base.