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In addition to archiving sequence and genome data, the EMBL Outstation—the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), provides an ever-expanding number of free network services to external users. For a list of server addresses, see Note 1. This chapter is designed to act as an introduction to these services and help prospective users to get started. It is now possible to access these services via anonymous file transfer protocol (FTP), World Wide Web (WWW), Gopher, and electronic mail (E-mail). The various methods of data retrieval and searching, using all four methods, are covered in this chapter.

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