From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jul 14 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!FRODO.MGH.HARVARD.EDU!CHERRY From: CHERRY@FRODO.MGH.HARVARD.EDU (Mike Cherry) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: ACEDB on CD-ROM Message-ID: <930714201138.202011c9@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 93 00:11:38 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: biosci Lines: 178 I was cleaning out my old email and found the message below. It might be of interest of folks reading the ACEDB group. Its announcing a CD-ROM from NCBI that contains the ACEDB distribution, among other things. You cannot run ACEDB off the CD-ROM as the CD-ROM contains the compressed tar files available via gopher or ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. However for those sites with no or very slow network connections this might be a good way to get the software and data. This CD-ROM does not come out very often but I assume this is somewhat demain driven. If enough people want to pay for the CD-ROM the NCBI will produce it more often. Mike Cherry >From: federhen@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (Scott Federhen) >To: bits@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov >Subject: NCBI Repository CD-ROM > > > The second release of the NCBI Data Repository CD-ROM is now available, >free of charge, from the NCBI. Send your request, including your surface mail >address, to 'repository@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov', or: > > NCBI Data Repository > National Library of Medicine > Bldg. 38A, Rm 8N-803 > Bethesda, MD 20894 > > Phone: (301) 496-2475 > Fax: (301) 480-9241 > > NOTE: Within the next week we will be mailing copies of the new release >to everyone who got a copy of the first release from us. If you got a copy >of the first release from some other source (at a conference, or from one >of the groups that contributed databases to the Repository) you will need >to send a request for the new release. > > The NCBI Data Repository was established as a service for providing >a public distribution site for databases maintained by individual developers >or groups. These databases and software are not officially supported or >maintained by NCBI nor does NCBI assume responsibility for the accuracy >or reliability of the data or software. Each data collection is solely the >responssibility of the individual developer and the data is made available >by NCBI 'as is'. > > The Data Repository includes databases and software which were built >on many different hardware platforms. We have used a CD-ROM formatting >program which uses a superset of the ISO-9660 format called "Rockridge" to >encode file and directory names on the CD-ROM. If the Unix-based user of the >CD-ROM has a Rockridge-compatible driver he/she will be able to access files on >the CD-ROM using the original Unix-type names. Other users of the CD-ROM will >see a different set of DOS-compatible file and directory names that are >automatically generated by the formatter. > > In addition, different hardware platforms have different conventions >for the line-termination character in text files. Unix systems expect a >line-feed, Macintoshes expect a carriage-return, and DOS expects both a >carriage-return and a line-feed. The compromise which makes the most systems >the happiest is to include both a carriage-return and a line-feed. In an >attempt to make the data accessible to the largest number of users we have >converted all of the text files on the CD-ROM to this format except for >databases which are targetted to a specific hardware platform, and >databases which include software that might be broken by the conversion. > > The Data Repository is also accessible over the Internet by gopher and >anonymous FTP to 'ncbi.nlm.nih.gov' (130.14.20.1) under the directory >'repository'. > > The following databases are included on the Data Repository CD-ROM: > >AAtDB - An Arabidopsis thaliana Database, the genomic database for the > plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This database was built using software > developed for the ACeDB. Maintained by Mike Cherry > (cherry@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu). > >ACeDB - A Caenorhabditis elegans Database, the genomic database for the > nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This directory includes software and > an installation script for running the system on several hardware > platforms. Maintained by Richard Durbin (rd@cele.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk) > and Jean Thierry-Mieg (mieg@frmop11.bitnet). > >aids-db - A collection of sequences from HIV and related viruses. > Gerald Myers, LANL. (glm@life.lanl.gov) > Kersti MacInnes, LANL. (kam@life.lanl.gov) > >blocks - A database of protein sequence homology blocks, constructed > from SwissProt and PROSITE. Includes Unix and DOS software > packages used to make the database. Maintained by Steven and Jorja > Henikoff (henikoff@sparky.fhcrc.org) > >carbbank - PC-based database and software system that contains information > about the structure of complex carbohydrates. Includes the Complex > Carbohydrate Structure Database (CCSD) and the CarbBank software > system. Maintained by Dana Smith, Scott Doubet and Peter Albersheim. > (carbbank@uga.bitnet) or (76424.1122@compuserve.com). > >chrominfo - A Macintosh-based database system and associated software > containing human chromosome map information. Maintained by > Prakash Nadkarni (nadkarni-prakash@cs.yale.edu) > >ECO2DBASE - The E. coli gene-protein database, which links information > about E. coli genes and their protein spots on 2-D gels. Maintained by > Frederick C. Neidhart (frederick_c._neidhardt@um.cc.umich.edu) > >enzyme - The Enzyme Data Bank, a database of information about enzymes, > including names, catalytic activity, cofactors, and pointers to > relevant entries in sequence databases. This directory also includes > an ASN.1 encoding of the database. Maintained by Amos Bairoch > (bairoch@cmu.unige.ch) > >EPD - Eukaryotic Promoter Database. A collection of biologically functional, > experimantally difined RNA POL-II promoters active in higher eukaryotes. > Maintained by Philipp Bucher (philipp.bucher@isrec.arcom.ch) > >FlyBase - The Drosophila Genetic Database, the genomic database for the > fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Maintained by Michael Ashburner, > (ma11@phx.cam.ac.uk) > >journals_toc - A collection of journal tables of contents. Maintained by > Amos Bairoch (bairoch@cmu.unige.ch) > >kabat - A collection of sequences of immunological importance, includint > aligned protein and nucleic acid sequences in various formats. Compiled > by Elvin Kabat (kabat@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Maintained by George Johnson > (tt@immuno.esam.nwu.edu). > >LiMB - Listing of Molecular Biology databases. A collection of information > about the content and maintenance of a large number of databases of > interest to the molecular biology community. Maintained by > Graham Redgrave (gwr@life.lanl.gov). > >metabolism - A collection of notes and datasets relating to intermediate > metabolism. Maintained by Peter Karp (pkarp@ai.sri.com). > >metproto - A database of metabolic reactions. Maintained by Ray Ochs > (rso2@po.cwru.edu) > >NFRES - Non-Redundant Functionally Equivalent Sequences. A collection of > non-redundant nucleic acid sequences from GenBank, separated into > different functional classes (coding regions, exons, introns, etc.). > Maintained by Andrzej Konopka (konopka@fcrfv2.ncifcrf.gov). > >NGDD - Normalized Gene Designation Database. Normalized gene maps for > Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Bacillus subtilus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, > and Caulobacter crescentus. Assembled by Yvon Abel and Robert Cedergren. > (cedergren@bch.umontreal.ca) > >pkinases - A non-redundant annotated collection of protein kinase > sequences. Maintained by Anne Marie Quinn (quinn@salk-sc2.sdsc.edu). > >prosite - An annotated database of protein sequence motifs. Maintained by > Amos Bairoch (bairoch@cmu.unige.ch). > >REBASE - Restriction Enzyme Database. A collection of information about > restriction enzymes, their cutting sites and commercial sources. > Maintained by Richard Roberts (roberts@cshl.org) > >repbase - A collection of datasets of human repetitive DNA sequences. > Maintained by Jerzy Jurka (jurek@jmullins.stanford.edu) > >RLDB - The Reference Library DataBase, a collection of information > about the chromosomal locations of a set of publicly available > DNA probes. Maintained by Guenther Zehetner (G_Zehetner@icrf.ac.uk). > >seqanalref - The Sequence Analysis Bibliographic Reference Data Bank, > a formatted database of bibliographic references to From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jul 22 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!rc1!ub4b!mcsun!uunet!olivea!pagesat!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!poplar1!cgr From: cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu (cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: some utilities Keywords: acedb mapmaker database Message-ID: <22na86$eiv@news.u.washington.edu> Date: 23 Jul 93 00:09:42 GMT Reply-To: cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu Followup-To: bionet.software.acedb Organization: University of Washington Lines: 108 NNTP-Posting-Host: poplar1.cfr.washington.edu i have written a couple of programs that help me move data from mapmaker to a relational database, from whence i will be able to move it to acedb. these may be re-inventing the wheel, but when i asked around a few weeks ago no-one knew of programs like these. (please let me know if you have a better mousetrap!) they are now available for anonymous ftp from poplar1.cfr.washington.edu in the directory /pub/acedb in the file mm2db.tar.gz. this file is in gnu's gzip format. this file unzips/untars into a directory called mm2db. look at the file README.mm2db for information and instructions. sources and solaris 2.1 binaries are included. i hope these are helpful. herewith is the README.mm2db file: MAPMAKER - TO - DATABASE CONVERSION PROGRAMS The associated programs, scanmap and scanseq, help translate data files generated from MapMaker 3 into a format that can be understood by a relational database management system. The data output by these programs can added to an existing database (what is done here), or used to create a new database of genetic map information. One could then, for example, combine the MapMaker data with existing an existing database and generate a report of the combined data for inclusion in an acedb database. These programs were developed on a Sun SPARCstation LX running under Solaris 2.1 (Unix System V Release 4), using GNU's gcc compiler. As such, the executables initially distributed run only on SPARCstations under Solaris 2.1. The source code is included so that the programs can be compiled for other machines. The output file names will have to be changed to work under MS-DOS. There are a couple of things that I may change in the future: - include a date-generated field in all output records - put in more error-recovery code Please let me know if you have other things to add, or make local changes--others may want the same things! cgr July 1993 carl g. riches college of forest resources internet: cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu university of washington ar-10 voice: 206-543-2764 seattle, wa 98195 fax: 206-543-3254 SCANMAP usage: scanmap scanmap is a program that reads through a MapMaker .map file looking for information about mapped loci and chromosomes. It writes out three files: a file of locus data, a file of chromosome information, and a file of map data , one record for each The format of the locus data file is (one record per locus): - the locus name - MapMaker's internal id number for the locus - MapMaker's code about whether or not the locus is mapped - which chromosome on which it is mapped The format of the chromosome data file is (one record per chromosome): - the chromosome name - MapMaker's internal id number for the chromosome - the number of loci mapped on the chromosome The format of the map data file is (one record per chromosome-locus pair): - the chromosome name - MapMaker's internal id number for the chromosome - the locus name - MapMaker's internal id number for the locus - the raw distance to the next locus as calculated by MapMaker - the distance (in cM) to the next locus using the Haldane method - the distance (in cM) to the previous locus using the Haldata method - the distance to the next locus (in cM) using the Kosambi method - the distance to the previous locus (cM) using the Kosambi method - the distance from the first mapped locus on this chromosome (cM) using the Haldane method - and the distance from the first mapped locus on this chromosome (cM) using the Kosambi method. Remember to link in your math library when compiling this file. SCANSEQ usage: scanmap scanseq reads through MapMaker's .data file for the sequences at each locus. It then writes out a file of this data, one record per line: the locus name, and the sequence. GENEMAP.CMD usage: (depends on your dbms) genemap.cmd is a set of SQL commands that can be used as a model for creating a relational database to hold the data output by scanseq and scanmap. This code was generated by R:Base 3.1c running under MS-DOS. It may need to be changed for other SQL database management systems. (Of course, major modifications will be necessary for non-SQL dbms's :) --- carl g. riches college of forest resources internet: cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu university of washington ar-10 voice: 206-543-2764 seattle, wa 98195 fax: 206-543-3254 From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Fri Jul 30 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!agate!overload.lbl.gov!bks From: bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov (Bradley K. Sherman) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: FAQ in preparation Message-ID: <23e6pn$8a@overload.lbl.gov> Date: 31 Jul 93 16:31:51 GMT Organization: Dendrome, A Genome Database for Forest Trees Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: s27w007.pswfs.gov I am posting this from the ACEDB developers workshop in Boston. There should be additional reports following. The need for a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with answers was expressed and I have volunteered to begin collating such a document. To this end I am soliciting questions, answers and other suggestions. If you have such a contribution, please send it by email. I will be away until mid-August at which time I will post a draft document. --Brad Sherman -- Bradley K. Sherman, Dendrome Project, Institute of Forest Genetics USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 245, Berkeley, CA, 94701, USA Phone: (510)559-6437 FAX: -6440 Internet: bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov Dendrome Gopher Server: s27w007.pswfs.gov port 70 From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sat Jul 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!NET.BIO.NET!kristoff From: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: IMPORTANT BIOSCI INFORMATION Message-ID: <9308010900.AA22015@net.bio.net> Date: 1 Aug 93 09:00:02 GMT Sender: kristoff@net.bio.net Distribution: biosci Lines: 243 Three important items follow: BIOSCI archive searching by e-mail, the BIOSCI FAQ, and the BIOSCI User Address Directory form. If you have not yet listed yourself in our e-mail address directory, please take a few minutes to complete and return the form below. If your address information has changed since you listed yourself, please send us an updated form. 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Thanks again for your cooperation! --------------- please cut here and return portion below --------------- New information or Update to old record (enter N or U): date (DD-MM-YY): first name: middle initial: family name: job title: e-mail address: e-mail network: phone number: FAX number: institution: address1: address2: address3: city: state/province: country: postal code: research interest: research interest: comment: comment: comment: comment: comment: From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sat Jul 31 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!GENOME.STANFORD.EDU!cherry From: cherry@GENOME.STANFORD.EDU (Mike Cherry) Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb Subject: ACEDB Workshop Participant List Message-ID: <199308011232.AA15421@genome.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Aug 93 12:32:34 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: biosci Lines: 376 This is the list of names an addresses for those attending the ACEDB Workshop -- Boston 1992. Arun Aggarwal 50B-3238 Lawrence Berkeley Labs Berkeley, CA U.S.A. VOICE: 510-486-6821 EMAIL: aggarwal@genome.lbl.gov Mary Anderson Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre Dept Life Science Nottingham University Nottingham, NG7 2RD U.K. VOICE: +44 602 791216 FAX: +44 602 513251 EMAIL: plzmlh@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vax Mark Atkinson INRA Station d'Amelioration des plantes Domaine de Crouelle 63039 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex FRANCE VOICE: 3373 62 43 37 EMAIL: atkinson@valmont.clermont.inra.fr Staffan Bergh Biochemistry Royal Institute of Technology S-10044 Stockholm SWEDEN VOICE: +46 8 790 8752 FAX: +46 8 24 5452 EMAIL: staffan@biochem.kth.se Mary Berlyn Biology Department Yale University New Haven, CT 06511 U.S.A. VOICE: 203-432-9997 EMAIL: mary@fetalpig.biology.yale.edu Doug Bigwood USDA, NAL 10301 Baltimore Blvd. Beltsville, MD 20705 U.S.A. VOICE: 301-504-6813 FAX: 301-504-7473 EMAIL: dbigwood@nalusda.gov Sam Cartinhour Dept of Molecular Biology Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 U.S.A. VOICE: 617-726-5935 FAX: 617-726-6893 EMAIL: cartinhour@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu Scott Chasalow Scottish Agricultural Statistics Service Scottish Crop Research Institute Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA SCOTLAND VOICE: +44 382 562731 FAX: +44 382 562426 EMAIL: s.chasalow@scri.sari.ac.uk Mike Cherry Department of Genetics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5120 U.S.A. VOICE: 415-723-7541 FAX: 415-723-7016 EMAIL: cherry@genome.stanford.edu Joseph Chillemi 269 Broadway Arlington, MA 02174 U.S.A. VOICE: 617-496-5667 Mellissa Cobb University of California at Berkeley Department of Molecular & Cell Biology LSA 539 Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A. VOICE: 510-643-9944 FAX: 510-643-9947 EMAIL: mcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu Eric DeMund Lawrence Berkeley Lab 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-3238 Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A. VOICE: 510-486-5181 FAX: 510-486-4004 EMAIL: eademund@lbl.gov Richard Durbin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QH ENGLAND VOICE: +44 223 402010 FAX: +44 223 402008 EMAIL: rd@mrc-lab.cam.ac.uk Frank Eeckman Institute for Sci. Comp. Res. LLNL L426 Livermore, CA 94551 U.S.A. Leland Ellis W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics Institute of Biosciences and Technology Texas A&M University 2121 Holcombe Houston, TX 77030 U.S.A. VOICE: 713-677-7607 FAX: 713-677-7963 EMAIL: leland@straylight.tamu.edu David Flanders John Innes Centre Colney Lane Norwich U.K. VOICE: +44-603-502200 (direct) +44-603-52571 (switchboard) FAX: +44-603-505725 EMAIL: arabidopsis@jii.afrc.ac.uk Thierry Garnier Unite de Genetique Moleculaire Bacterienne Institut Pasteur 28, rue du Dr. Roux 75724 Paris Ceder 15 FRANCE VOICE: 1 45 68 84 49 EMAIL: tgarnier@pasteur.fr William Gilbert Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Spaulding Life Sciences Bldg. 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