From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jun 01 23:00:00 1994
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From: eddy@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk (Edward Welbourne (Genetics))
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In-reply-to: mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr's message of 1 Jun 1994 22:18:47 +0100

In article <2sitvn$deh@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (Jean Thierry-Mieg) writes:
> we will have a sun tape drive
> probably a dec tape drive

Please can we have details on the type of tape drive.  Specifically, which of
2.5 or 5.3 GigaByte cartridge (ExaByte &c),
150 Meg quarter inch tape cartridge,
other ...

	Eddy.
--
				...   Few indeed are those who, travelling
it, have crossed the dark and yawning Abyss of Implementation to Delivery.
Many, yea, many in truth stagnate yet in the Desert of Delay, or linger ever
in the ghastly limbo called Perpetual Beta.	(from the LOGINATAKA)

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 02 23:00:00 1994
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From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
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> From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
> Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
> Subject: xv 2.21 for Solaris?
> Date: 23 Mar 1994 09:15:59 -0800
> 
> Does anybody have a copy of xv 2.21 that runs on Solaris 2.X?
> Thanks,
> - Dave

Jeff Kirk gave me a copy he compiled, and permission to distribute it.  I've
put it on probe.nalusda.gov in pub/grains/xv2.solaris.tar.Z.  Thanks Jeff!!
- Dave


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From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
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Subject: Bibliographies and class name ?Paper
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I would like to rename ?Paper to ?Reference, since many of the references in
my database are books instead of papers.  So I did it.  But now the 
Bibliography function ("Show Related Biblio" in the KeySet menu, or "Biblio"
from a tree window) is broken, says "Missing or unrecognised Class Paper".

Same result whether I use a real class ?Reference, or use ?Paper with a 
"-Rename Reference" in options.wrm.

Does anybody know a workaround for this?
(I'm using acedb 3.0).

- Dave

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jun 06 23:00:00 1994
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From: jld@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Joanne Dicks)
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I'm having a problem with acedb and am wondering if anyone can set me
straight on it. I recently converted to version 3.0 for Solaris and 
haven't had many problems with it. However for the last couple of
days I haven't been able to get Write Access. The option is missing
from the main pull-down menu. The environment variable ACEDB_SU is
definitely set to TRUE, so it's not that and my username is in
passwd.wrm. Besides which, I was able to load in files last week.
It's probably something very small and stupid on my part so I hope
someone recognizes the problem and can help me out. Thanks.

Jo Dicks

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jun 06 23:00:00 1994
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From: mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (Danielle et Jean Thierry-Mieg)
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Subject: Re:  Bibliographies and class name ?Paper
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reply
unfortunatelly, the code itself:
w6/biblio.c:biblioKeySet

firts passes a call CLASS Paper
to select those entries in the keyset which
are paper by themselves
so a class Paper must be defined

i am a bit surprised though that ?Paper with a  "-Rename Reference"
does not work
i think a way out is a subclass

define class Paper Hidden
define class Reference subclass of Paper filter 
no filter or may be filter IS "*"

Visible

then the code should be happy

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jun 06 23:00:00 1994
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From: D.Wolf@dkfz-heidelberg.de (Detlef Wolf)
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> ... and my username is in
> passwd.wrm. Besides which, I was able to load in files last week.

Can only do wild guesses from this:
ACEDB checks for the real user id,
so if you become you with the UNIX "su - jld"
command, you will probably not have write access.

I might also try to uncomment the
GetLoginFailed line in passwd.wrm

Greetings
Detlef


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From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
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Subject: Re:  Bibliographies and class name ?Paper
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> define class Paper Hidden
> define class Reference subclass of Paper filter 
> no filter or may be filter IS "*"
> 
> Visible
> 
> then the code should be happy

Happier than Dave, maybe.  I see how this works around the problem, but
going through the exercise is reminding me of some of my longstanding
suggestions about subclasses, which I should voice while I'm thinking
about them since I never did before.  

1.  The Model class shows models for real classes like Paper but not for
subclasses like Reference.  It would be nice to list the subclasses too, 
even though it's just to show the same model plus the value of Filter.

2.  I can control where on the main window a visible class is listed, by 
its order in options.wrm, but apparently subclasses appear only at the bottom
of the window.

3.  The data must be loaded as Paper objects.  It would be nice to be able
to load as Reference objects directly, and have ACEDB fill in whatever value
of the Filter is needed, if any.

- Dave

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    Common Questions, with Answers, about ACEDB.

   
Q0:  What is ACEDB? 
Q1:  What is the current version of ACEDB? 
Q2:  What hardware/software do I need to run ACEDB? 
Q3:  !Where can I get ACEDB? 
Q4:  !What ACEDB databases exist? 
Q5:  !What written documentation exists for ACEDB? 
Q6:  Where can I find further information about ACEDB? 
Q7:  How should ACEDB be cited? 
Q8:  Is ACEDB object-oriented? 
Q9:  What's all this about Gopher|WAIS|ftp|WWW|URL ... 
Q10: How can I get on/off the ACEDB announcements mailing list? 
Q11: When and where is the next ACEDB Workshop? 
Q411: Who prepared this document & where is the current version? 
  
    Questions marked with + are new, those with !
    have substantially changed answers.

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Q0:  What is ACEDB?


A0:  ACEDB is an acronym for A Caenorhabditis elegans Database.  It can
     refer to a database and data concerning the nematode C. elegans,
     or to the database software alone.  This document is concerned
     primarily with the latter meaning.  ACEDB is being adapted by many
     groups to organize molecular biology data about the genomes of
     diverse species [see Q4].

     ACEDB allows for automatic cross-referencing of items during
     loading and allows for hypertextual navigation of the links
     using a graphical user interface and mouse.  Certain special
     purpose graphical displays have been integrated into the
     software.  These reflect the needs of molecular biologists
     in constructing genetic and physical maps of genomes.

     ACEDB was written and developed by Richard Durbin (MRC LMB
     Cambridge, England) and Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, Montpellier,
     France), beginning circa 1990.  It is written in the C programming
     language and uses the X11 windowing system to provide a platform
     independent graphical user interface.  The source code is publicly
     available [See Q3].  Durbin & Thierry-Mieg continue to develop
     the system, with contributions from other groups including
     Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the European integrated Genome
     Project.

     A description by Durbin & Thierry-Mieg:
         ACEDB does not use an underlying relational database
         schema, but a system we wrote ourselves in which data
         are stored in objects that belong in classes.  This is
         nevertheless a general database management system using
         caches, session control, and a powerful query language.
         Typical objects are clones, genes, alleles, papers,
         sequences, etc.  Each object is stored as a tree,
         following a hierarchical structure for the class (called
         the "model").  Maps are derived from data stored in tree
         objects, but precomputed and stored as tables for
         efficiency.  The system of models allows flexibility
         and efficiency of storage -missing data are not stored.
         A major advantage is that the models can be extended
         and refined without invalidating an existing database.
         Comments can be added to any node of an object.

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Q1:  What is the current version of ACEDB?


A1:  As of January 1994, ACEDB has undergone a bifurcation.  Those
     involved with C. elegans will want to to track the 2.x series
     under the stewardship of Richard Durbin and all other groups
     should probably track the 3.x series of Jean Thierry-Mieg.
     Thierry-Mieg writes "... 2 and 3 differ only at the level of
     displays ..."  Version 2.0 was released in December, 1993 and
     version 3.0 was released in January, 1994.

     A Macintosh version is available as version 2.0b4.

     To retrieve the software see Q3.

     To be kept informed of new releases see Q10.

     [This question refers to the software not the C. elegans data.]

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Q2:  What hardware/software do I need to run ACEDB?


A2:

     Unix and X11:
        
          Any machine running SunOS 4.x
          SPARCstation 10 under Solaris [Probably all Solaris, then --bks]
          DEC  DECstation3100, 5100 etc.
          DEC  Alpha/OSF-1
          Silicon Graphics Iris series
          PC 386/486 with Linux (free Unix)
          There exist, or have existed, ports onto Alliant, Hewlett-
           Packard, IBM R6000, Convex.   You may have to contact
           the developer responsible for the port to make these real.
          NeXT: contact Patrick Phillips at University of Texas,
           NeXTmail: patrick@wbar.uta.edu
              email: phil@decster.uta.edu
         
    MSDOS/Windows/NT:
         
        A port to NT is rumored to be in the works.
         
    Macintosh:
         [Contributed by Frank Eeckman]
         Macace is distributed as a self-extracting archive that contains
         the application, the wspec files, and a fully up to date
         database.  macace 3.0 is available with an updated 21bdb
         database.  Please send all questions/bug reports to
         eeckman@llnl.gov A native powerPC version is available as
         well.  Macace needs a macintosh with > 16 MBytes of RAM,
         and a decent color monitor is preferred. System 7 or
         greater is required. For the multimedia extensions Quicktime
         1.0 is required.  Please add your name to our mailing list by
         sending email to eeckman@llnl.gov.
         It is our belief that for cost savings a powerPC mac will beat
         the advertised linux-intel combination.
         Macace is fully compatible with xace, but includes some
         multimedia extensions (picture and movie support) not found
         in the unix versions.


     To retrieve the software see Q3.

    For cost savings, a combination of a high-end Intel platform
    with Linux appears very attractive.

    Here at the Institute of Forest Genetics we run ACEDB on a 
    Sun Microsystems SPARCstation II, and users can interact
    using Macintoshes and PC-clones by using X11 implementations
    for the personal computers and a LAN.  [This section should
    be expanded to have a more thorough discussion of X11
    interactions.  --bks]

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Q3:  Where can I get ACEDB?


A3:  All the files are available in the following public access
     accounts (anonymous ftp sites) accessible via Internet:
	
        
        lirmm.lirmm.fr (193.49.104.10) in pub/acedb
        
        
        cele.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (131.111.84.1) in pub/acedb
	
        
        ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.20.1) in repository/acedb
	
            
            (version 1-10 is available in repository/aatdb)
             
        
        bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il (132.76.55.12) in
            pub/databases/acedb.
	
	
        MacAce is available from:
        
        genome.lbl.gov
             (131.243.224.80) in pub/macace 
        
             cele.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (131.111.84.1) in pub/acedb/macace 
        
            

    A typical session would be: 
        ftp ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
        login: anonymous
        password: your email address
        cd repository/acedb/ace3
        binary
        ls
        get README_3
        get NOTES
        get INSTALL
        get bin.sparc.3.0.tar.Z
        quit
	

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Q4:  What ACEDB databases exist?


A4:  [In alphabetic order by Database name.
         Curators, submit changes as new paragraphs.--bks]

     Database : AAnDB-1.0
     Species : Aspergillus nidulans
     PI : Leland Ellis
     Last_update : February 1994
     ACEDB_version : 3.0
     Contact : leland@stralight.tamu.edu
      URL : http://keck.tamu.edu/ibt.html 
     Comment : defunct, See AGsDB

     Database : AAtDB
     Species : Arabidopsis thaliana
     Availability : 
     Curator : John Morris
     Current version: 1-5
     Contact : curator@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : ABtDB-1.0
     Species : Bovine, Bos taurus
     ACEDB_version : 3.0 extended
     PI : Leland Ellis
     Last_update : February 1994
     Contact : leland@stralight.tamu.edu
     URL : http://keck.tamu.edu/ibt.html
     Comment : defunct, See AGsDB

     Database : ACeDB
     Species : Caenorhabditis elegans
     Current version: 2-10
     Curator : Jean Thierry-Mieg
     Curator : Richard Durbin
     Contact : rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
     Contact : mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr
     Last_update : May 1994

     Database : AceMap
     Species : Homo Sapiens (Saccaromyces Pombe, Mus musculus in development)
     Focus : Physical mapping of human chromosomes X and 21
     Curator : Hugues Roest Crollius
     Contact : hrc@gea.lif.icnet.uk
     PI : Hans Lehrach
     PI : Hugues Roest Crollius
     Last_update : 22 Feb 1994

     Database : AGhDB
     Species : Gossipium hirsutum (cotton)
     PI : Russ Klhel
     Curator : Stephanie Crouch
     Last_update : March 1994
     Contact : scrouch@tamsun.tamu.edu

     Database : AGsDB  A Genus species Database
     Species : Aspergillus nidulans
     Species : Neurospora crassa
     Species : cow w/ human anchor loci
     Species : cotton (demo)
     Species : Homologs of Aspergillus cell cycle loci
               for budding and fission yeast
     PI : Leland Ellis
     Curator : Leland Ellis
     Last_update : March 1994
     ACeDB_version : 3.0 (beta still), with extensions to the Human
               C21 Models to provide for multiple species, and queries
               between species via Homologs (e.g., cell cycle loci with
               links via Homologs between Aspergillus and budding 
               C. cerevisiae) and fission (S. pombe) yeast);
               interacting loci via defined Interactions for each locus
     Models : as of 3.13.94
     Data : as of 3.13.94
     Revision :  AAnDB for Aspergillus nidulans and ABtDB for Bos taurus
                 (cow) have been folded into AGsDB, and are not being
                 developed futher as individual species databases.
     WWW : WWW-AGsDB is an interface of AGsDB with the World-Wide Web,
           and utilizes the WWW-ACeDB Server (nph-acedb3) of Guy Ducoux
           (ducoux@moulon.inra.fr).
     URL : http://keck.tamu.edu/ibt.html
     Contact : leland@straylight.tamu.edu

     Database : ASbDB
     Species : Sorghum bicolor
     PI : Keith Schertz
     Curator : Stephanie Crouch
     Last_update : March 1994
     Contact : scrouch@tamsum.tamu.edu

     Database : ChlamyDB
     Species : Chlamydomonas
     PI : Elizabeth Harris
     Contact : chlamy@acpub.duke.edu
     Availability : Still under construction
     Phone : 919-684-5243 (till 6/94)
     Fax : 919-684-5412 (till 6/94)
     Last_update : 30 Sept. 1993

     Database : EcoDB
     Species : E. coli
     PI : Staffan Bergh
     Contact : staffan@biochem.kth.se
     Availability : Still under construction
     Last_update : 11 Oct. 1993

     Database : FlyBase
     Species : Drosophila melanogaster
     Availability : gopher or gopher+ ftp.bio.indiana.edu
     Availability : ACeDB-style interface to SyBase server
                    due by end of 1994
     Curator : Edward Welbourne
     Contact : eddy@gen.cam.ac.uk
     Contact : flybase@morgan.harvard.edu
     PI : William Gelbart
     PI : Michael Ashburner
     PI : Thomas Kaufman
     PI : Kathy Matthews
     PI : John Merriam

     Database : Flydb
     Species : Drosophila melanogaster
     Availability : by request only, via ftp
     Curator : Suzanna E. Lewis
     Contact : SELewis@lbl.gov
     Focus : STS content mapping project summary
     PI : Gerald Rubin
     PI : Mike Palazzolo
     PI : Dan Hartl
     PI : Alan Spradling
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : GrainGenes
     Species : Wheat, barley, oats, relatives
     Availability : Anonymous ftp from probe.nalusda.gov:pub/grains
     Availability : Gopher greengenes.cit.cornell.edu port 70
     Availability : Gopher probe.nalusda.gov port 7002
     Curator : David E. Matthews
     PI : Olin D. Anderson
     Contact : matthews@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu
     Contact : oandersn@wheat.usda.gov
     URL : gopher://greengenes.cit.cornell.edu/1/
     Data_version : 1.3
     Released : 12 Jan 1994
     Based_on : acedb.1-10
     Availability : See following WWW URL
     URL :  http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedbs/acedbs/graingenes/index.html
     Last_update : Feb. 1994

     Database : human.c17
     Species : Homo sapiens
     Availability :  the database is under development
     Contact : lsprilus@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
     Focus :  mapping & sequencing of Human Chromosome 17
     Based_on: acedb.3-0
     Last_update : Jan. 1994

     Database : Maize
     Species : Zea mays L. ssp. mays
     Focus : Maize genome
     Acedb_version : 1.9
     FTP : probe.nalusda.gov, pub directory; anonymous ftp
     Comment : Maize is an acedb front end for the Maize Genome 
                   Database, MaizeDB, a SYBASE database.
     Comment : MaizeDB is updated daily and has WWW connectivity
                   to external databases: GenBank (loci, alleles and
                   probes), SwissProt (gene products) and the E. coli
                   Stock Center (loci).
     Data : Major data categories: 4522 mapped loci (located to
                chromosome or better) including 684 mapped genes and
                1423 mapped probed sites (gene candidates); 982
                probes; 1850 map scores; 1533 gel patterns
                (Probe/Enzyme/Stock); 4231 stocks; 5105 Variations
                (alleles, DNA polymorphisms, rearrangements, etc);
                465 phenotypes; 223 traits; 547 gene products;
                5314 bibliographic references; 1979 persons with
                addresses.
     Gopher : host = teosinte.agron.missouri.edu, port = 70
     Telnet :  telnet teosinte.agron.missouri.edu 
                  login as guest, use password 'corncob'
     HTTP :  http://teosinte.agron.missouri/top.html 
     HTTP : http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedbs/index.html
                via PGD, the Plant Genome Database
     Comment : Genera is a software toolkit for creating and
                   extracting data from Sybase databases; used to
                   create MaizeDB and Worldwide Web connectivity.
     HTTP : Genera Info  http://cgsc.biology.yale.edu/genera.html
     Funding : MaizeDB USDA/ARS to E. Coe
     Funding : Genera NSF BIR 92-01652 to S. Letovsky and M. Berlyn
     Curator/PI : Ed Coe ed@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Curator : Pat Byrne byrne@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Curator : Georgia Davis gdavis@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Curator : Mary Polacco  maryp@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Curator : Marty Sachs, Maize Stock Center,  msachs@uiuc.edu 
     Curator : Christiane Fauron  FAURON@GENE1.med.utah.edu
     Curator : Carolyn Wetzel cmwetzel@iastate.edu
     Curator : Steve Rodermel S1SRR@ISUVAX.IASTATE.EDU
     Design : Stan Letovsky letovsky-stan@CS.YALE.EDU
     Design : Mary Berlyn mary@fetalpig.biology.yale.edu
     Systems Manager :  Denis Hancock
                            dhancock@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Contact : db_request@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu
     Last_update : 25 April 1994

     Database : MycDB
     Species : Mycobacteria
     Comment : MycDB is a collation of data on the mycobacteria,
                   causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy. It
                   is centered on the mapping and sequencing projects
                   under way in M.leprae and M.tuberculosis.
     PI : Staffan Bergh
     PI : Stewart Cole
     PI : Doug Smith
     Curator : Staffan Bergh
     Contact : staffan@biochem.kth.se
     Last_update : Apr. 1994
     WWW :  http://kiev.physchem.kth.se/MycDB.html
     ftp : ftp.pasteur.fr (157.99.64.12) in pub/MycDB
     ftp : kiev.physchem.kth.se (130.237.52.64) in pub/MycDB
     ftp : bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il (132.76.55.12) in pub/databases/mycdb

     Database : RiceGenes
     Species : Rice (O. sativa)
     Availability : Anonymous ftp from probe.nalusda.gov:pub/rice 
     Availability :  Gopher nightshade.cit.cornell.edu port 70 
     Availability :  Gopher probe.nalusda.gov port 7007 
     Curator : Edie Paul
     PI : Susah McCouch
     Contact : epaul@nightshade.cit.cornell.edu
     Release : ACEDB 1-10
     Last_update : May 1994

     Database : SaccDB
     Species : Saccharomyces cerevisiae
     Focus : Budding Yeast Genome
     Acedb_version : 2.0
     FTP : genome-ftp.stanford.edu, not available yet.
     Comment : The database is in beta test by a small number of
          yeast labs. The WWW-ACEDB gateway version is
          currently available, see HTTP below. The Gopher
          server contains only the Olson restriction map
          information and views of the resulting Clone
          (Physical) Map.
     Data : Olson/Riles Physical Map, Mortimer Genetic Maps and
          Information, Sequences from GenBank, Gene/Clone
          associations using the Wash Univ. primer clone
          filters.
     Gopher : host = genome-gopher.stanford.edu, port = 70
     HTTP : URL http://genome-www.stanford.edu 
     Funding : National Center for Human Genome Research, NIH
     PI : David Botstein, botstein@genome.stanford.edu
     Project Manager/Curator : Mike Cherry, cherry@genome.stanford.edu
     Curator : Fred Dietrich, dietrich@genome.stanford.edu
     Systems : Dan Mosedale, mosedale@genome.stanford.edu
     Contact : yeast-curator@genome.stanford.edu
     Last_update : 7 May 1994

     Database : SolGenes
     Coverage: Solanaceae - tomato, potato, pepper
     Availability : Anonymous ftp from probe.nalusda.gov:pub/solgenes 
     Availability :  Gopher nightshade.cit.cornell.edu port 71 
     Availability :  Gopher probe.nalusda.gov port 7006 
     Curator : Edie Paul
     PI : Steve Tanksley
     Contact : epaul@nightshade.cit.cornell.edu
     Release : ACEDB 1-10
     Last_update : May 1994

     Database : SoyBase
     Species : Soybeans
     Curator :  Lisa Lorenzen
     PI : Randy Shoemaker
     Contact : lorenzen@mendel.agron.iastate.edu
     Phone : 515-294-0421
     Fax : 515-294-2299
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : TreeGenes
     Species : Forest trees
     Availability : alpha, contact curator
     ACEDB_version : 1-10
     Curator : Bradley K. Sherman
     PI : David B. Neale
     Contact : Dendrome@s27w007.pswfs.gov
     Contact : bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov
     Contact : dbn@s27w007.pswfs.gov
     Last_update : March 1994
     URL : gopher://s27w007.pswfs.gov/
     URL : http://s27w007.pswfs.gov/
     URL : ftp://probe.nalusda.gov/pub/trees

     Database : 21Bdb
     Species : Homo sapiens
     Availability : by request, via ftp, world-wide-web
     Based_on : acedb.1-10 plus moulon server
     URL : ftp://genome.lbl.gov/pub/21Bdb-v1.1.tar.Z
     URL : http://genome.lbl.gov/Genome/acepage.html
     Curator : Donn F. Davy
     Contact : DFDavy@lbl.gov
     Contact : aggarwal@genome.lbl.gov
     Focus : STS content mapping & sequencing of Human Chromosome 21
     PI : Michael Palazzolo
     PI : Chris Martin
     PI : Jan-Fang Cheng
     Last_update : Apr. 1994

     Database : VoxPop
     Species : Populus spp.
     Availability : contact curator
     Curator : Carl G. Riches
     PI : Reinhard F. Stettler
     Contact : cgr@poplar1.cfr.washington.edu
     Contact : STETTLER@coyote.cfr.washington.edu
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : ?
     PI : Scott Chasalow
     Species : Potato
     Contact : Scottish Crop Institute, Dundee
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : ?
     PI : George Murphy
     PI : David Flanders
     Species : Arabidopsis thaliana
     Contact : John Innes Center, Norwich, England
     Last_update : Sept. 1993

     Database : ?
     Species : Homo sapiens
     Focus : Physical mapping of human chromosomes 22 and X
     Curator : Ian Dunham
     Contact : idunham@crc.ac.uk id1@sanger.ac.uk
     PI : Ian Dunham
     PI : David Bentley
     Last_update : 28 Sep 1993


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Q5:  What written documentation exists for ACEDB?


A5:
    From Sam Cartinhour:
       The ACEDB Documentation Server is a repository for
       documentation concerned with "A C. elegans Data Base",
       the generic genome database software designed by
       Richard Durbin (MRC, UK) and Jean Thierry-Mieg
       (CNRS, France). The server is intended as a resource
       for developers, curators, and end-users of all (not
       just plant) databases derived from ace. Eventually
       we hope to offer all kinds of documentation, from
       reprints to (technical) gossip.  The ACEDB
       documentation server is sponsored by the Plant Genome
       Database Project at the National Agricultural Library
       (USDA).  The documentation server is listed on the
       home page for the Agricultural Genome World Wide Web
       Server at http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000.

     Primary documents from the developers are:
         acedb -- A C. elegans Database: I. Users' Guide.
         acedb -- A C. elegans Database: II. Installation Guide.
         acedb -- A C. elegans Database: III. Configuration Guide.
         Syntactic Definitions for the ACEDB Data Base Manager
             --Jean Thierry-Mieg and Richard Durbin (1991-)
     
     Get By anonymous ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.20.1)
     in repository/acedb:
        ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/respository/acedb/doc*tar.Z
     And ftp://weeds.mgh.harvard.edu/acedb_doc
     The files are in tex and postscript.  [I have had
     some difficulty printing these.  Jean Thierry-Mieg
     suggests latex xxxx.tex, dvi2ps xxxx.dvi > xxxx.ps, 
     lpr xxxx.ps.]

     You will find interesting documents in the wdoc
     subdirectory of the ACEDB distribution.

     The Australian National Genomic Information Service has prepared
     good documentation of the C. elegans version as
      Angisturte.ps and angistute.hqx 
     available by anonymous ftp at ncbi.hih.gov in repository/acedb/ace2.

     Cherry, J.M., Cartinhour, S.W., and Goodman, H.M. (1992) AAtDB,
     An Arabidopsis thaliana Database. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
     10 (4): 308-309,409-410

     Tutorial manual for AAtDB:
     Cartinhour, S., Cherry, J.M., and Goodman, H.M. (1992) An
     Introduction to ACeDB: For AAtDB, An Arabidopsis thaliana
     Database. Massachusetts General Hospital. (Available on
     request in printed form from the AAtDB curator).

     A description of ACEDB:
     Cherry, J.M. and Cartinhour, S.W. (1993) ACEDB, A tool for
     biological information. in Automated DNA Sequencing and
     Analysis, edited by M.  Adams, C. Fields, and C. Venter.
     Academic Press (in press).  [text is available through
     ftp or gopher from weeds.mgh.harvard.edu]

     Another description of ACEDB for physical mapping projects:
     Dunham, I., Durbin, R., Mieg, J-T & Bentley, D.R. (1993)
     Physical mapping projects and ACEDB, in Guide to Human
     Genome Computing. Ed.  Bishop, M.J.  (Academic Press)
     (review, in press).  [text is available through ftp or
     gopher from weeds.mgh.harvard.edu]

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Q6:  Where can I find further information about ACEDB?


A6:  There is a Usenet/Biosci conference titled bionet.software.acedb.
     If you do not have access to the Biosci conferences via a
     newsreader (e.g. rn, trn) you can participate in the conference
     by electronic mail.  To subscribe to the e-mail version of the
     conference send email to biosci-server@net.bio.net (UK, European
     readers use biosci@uk.ac.daresbury or biosci.daresbury.ac.uk) with
     no subject line and only the message
     
           subscribe ACEDB-SOFT
	   
     in the body.  To unsubscribe send the message
     
           unsubscribe ACEDB-SOFT
	   
     to the same address.
     This is an automated service.  Your e-mail address will be taken
     from the header of the message that you send.  If you then send
     mail to acedb@net.bio.net the mail will be distributed to all
     subscribers and to the electronic conference.

     Mike Cherry has set up an ACEDB Developer's archive.  For
     anonymous ftp use the hostname weeds.mgh.harvard.edu and look in
     the acedb_dev directory. If you wish to contribute you can put
     files in the incoming directory.  Send a message to Mike
     (cherry@genome.stanford.edu) that you have put something in that
     directory then Mike will move it out for general access.
     For gopher you can connect to weeds.mgh.harvard.edu
     (132.183.190.21) and ...
     
        -->  N.  FTP Archives for Molecular Biology/
	
     then
     
        -->  M.  ACEDB Developer's archive/
	
     [N and M are integers which are subject to change.]

     The bionet.software. acedb.conference is archived and can be
     searched using WAIS.  Here is a Gopher-style link to the WAIS
     archive. (This is also courtesy of Mike Cherry.):
     
          #
          Type=7
          Name=ACEDB BioSci Electronic Conference
          Path=7/.index/acedb-biosci
          Host=genome-gopher.stanford.edu
          Port=70
     

     The AAtDB, Soybase, GrainGenes, Mace, and TreeGenes [see Q4]
     databases regularly submit data to the Plant Genome Database
     at the National Agricultural Library (NAL).  Nal makes this
     data available via the WWW using an http server with URL:
         
         http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/index.html
	 
     You will also find a selection of models.wrm files (schemata)
     for the various databases here.  You will want to get a
     "mosaic client" to examine this.

     Other URL's that readers with mosaic clients might want to
     examine are:
        
        http://moulon.inra.fr/acedb/acedb.html for C. elegans data
	
        
        http://moulon.inra.fr/acedb/mycdb.html for Mycobacterium data
	
        
        http://moulon.inra.fr:8001/acedb/igd.html for an integrated
            genome database.
        
	

     For information on how these were created see
        
        http://moulon.inra.fr/acedb_conf_eng.html
	
        
        http://moulon.inra.fr/acedb_conf.html (en francais)
	

     The Genome Computing Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
     has an anonymous ftp service at machine genome.lbl.gov
     (131.243.224.80) which contains: 
          flydb - LBL's Drosophila Acedb-style database
          21bdb - LBL's Human Chromosome 21 Acedb-style database
          querdb - LBL's query-language extensions to Acedb 
          metadata - LBL's compendium of Acedb database schema variants
          macace-aatdb-demo.hqx  -  pre-release Acedb MacIntosh version
          There is also a repository of contributed software for
          data conversions and the like.
	  

     Computer staff for the UC Berkeley Drosophila physical mapping
     project the LBL Human Chromosome 21 project, and the LBL plant
     genome projects meet regularly to coordinate their ACEDB
     extension and development efforts, along with Frank Eeckman,
     who is working on the Macintosh version of ACEDB (for further
     information, contact jlmccarthy@lbl.gov). They also keep in
     close touch (via email, personal visits, etc.) with their
     counterparts in Cambridge (Richard Durbin et al), Montpellier 
     Jean Thierry-Mieg et al), and the Interated Genome Database
     project in Heidelburg (Otto Ritter, Detlef Wolf et al).

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Q7:  How should ACEDB be cited?


A7:  From the distribution:

        We realize that we have not yet published any "real" paper on
        ACEDB.  We consider however that anonymous ftp servers are a
        form of publication. We would appreciate if users of ACEDB
        could quote:
            Richard Durbin and Jean Thierry Mieg (1991-). A C. elegans
            Database.  Documentation, code and data available from
            anonymous FTP servers at lirmm.lirmm.fr,
            cele.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk and  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

        Papers involved in database development could quote more
        precisely:
           I.   Users' Guide. Included as part of the ACEDB distribution
         kit,
           II.  Installation Guide. Included as part of the ACEDB
         distribution
           III. Configuration Guide. Included as part of the ACEDB
         distribution

        and the preprintkit, available by Anonymous FTP from ...
           Jean Thierry-Mieg and Richard Durbin (1992). Syntactic
           Definitions for the ACEDB Data Base Manager. Included as
           part of the ACEDB distribution.

             --Jean and Richard.

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Q8: Is ACEDB object-oriented?


A8: From the ACEDB User's Guide.

    A major current vogue in computer languages and database design
    is for ``object-oriented'' systems.  It's also a source of lots
    of argument.  We are just trying to build a good system, and
    don't want to get caught in the crossfire, but we do talk about
    organising our data into objects and classes.  We have undoubtedly
    been influenced by many of the ideas going around, but it isn't
    likely our system would be regarded as kosher by the object-
    oriented community.  In particular there is no class hierarchy, nor
    inheritance, and it is written in a modular but non-ideological way
    in straight C. However display and disk storage methods are class
    dependent.

    In some ways the class hierarchy is replaced by our system of
    models and trees, which seems to be rather unusual.  We think it
    is very natural for the representation of biological information,
    where for some members of a class a lot might be known about some
    aspect, but for most only a little is known.

    The advantages of our sytem over a relational database, such as
    Oracle or Sybase, is our ability to refine our descriptions without
    rebuilding the database and the possibility of organising the
    storage of data on disk according to their class, i.e. we store in
    a very different way the tree-objects and the long stretches of
    DNA sequence.

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Q9:  What's all this about Gopher/WAIS/ftp/WWW ...


A9:  These terms all refer to Internet protocols.
     An excellent introduction to the Internet is:
       _The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog_,
       by Ed Krol, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.
     Or ask your system administrator to provide you with
     a gopher client or mosaic client and begin navigating
     on your own. 

     URL is a Universal Resource Locator on the World-Wide
     Web (WWW).  There are many free Internet browsers
     available that allow you to use an Internet connection
     and a URL to access services.  Mosaic may be the
     most popular and it is available for Mac, PC or Unix
     via anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.

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Q10: How can I get on/off the ACEDB announcements mailing list?


A10: To get on or off the mailing list send mail to
     rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk or mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr.
     New releases of the software are announced to
     this list.

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Q11: When and where is the Next ACEDB Workshop?


    From Jean Thierry-Mieg:
     DATES:
     The acedb '94 workshop will be held july 2 to 16, in Saint Matthieu
     de Treviers, a small village, 20 km north of Montpellier, at the
     foot of the Pic Saint Loup.

     HOUSING:
     We have booked a place meant for family vacations which includes
     ample space, a nice conference room and ten studios meant for 5
     people (bathroom, shower, kitchenette, terrace, all nice and clean)
     that we plan to share among 3 to 4 participants.  Meals will be
     taken at a local restaurant.

     The place is ideal for work and informal discussions and will be
     well equiped with computers. The situation is nice for hiking and
     allows volley-ball, ping-pong, tennis and petanque.

     We can provide lists of possible hotels for those who would prefer
     more privacy or find ways of accomodating families if you let us
     know very soon (school ends early july in France).

     Cost for 2 weeks is 1000 FF (about 200 US dollars) for housing on
     site plus 2500 FF for full meals. We may get enough funding to
     reduce this cost, but cannot pay for travel.

     PROGRAM:
     Formal presentations and general discussions will take place in the
     mornings and the evenings, alternating network aspects, data handling,
     displays and genome data analaysis.

     The afternoons will be dedicated to data manipulation, programming
     and writing documentation. The idea is to actually implement during
     the meeting many of the ideas that will come up, to fuse and
     coallesce the now numerous acedb-based applications into a working
     modular package, and to import and consolidate large sets of
     additional data.

     Towards this goal, we will broadcast the following announcement

     ACEDB'94 Genome Database Workshop.

     Montpellier, July 2-16, 1994

     This meeting will cover the use and development of the 
     ACEDB database manager central to several major genome projects,
     including C.elegans, A.thaliana, human, and a number of
     other plant and animal species. 

     We wish to encourage people with large sets of data on other
     organisms to attend this workshop. They will be helped to build,
     during the meeting, a friendly graphic presentation of their own
     data, in return for discussing their own experience.

     *******************************************************************

     FORMAT:
     This meeting will be much longer than the 2 previous acedb workshops
     (Cambridge 92 and Boston 93), in the hope of initiating new
     collaborations and allowing concrete results. This format is usual in
     physics summer schools and often very productive.
     
     The workshop may be coupled to a 2 days presentation of acedb, open
     to the general audience, and yet to be organised.
     
     We anticipate at least the participation of people from: Berkeley,
     Boston, Cambridge, Heidelberg and Montpellier, including Richard
     Durbin (LMB and Sanger Centre, Cambridge), John McCarthy (LBL,
     Berkeley), Otto Ritter (DKFZ, Heidelberg), Danielle and Jean
     Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, Montpellier).

     Please confirm your participation and forward this announcement to
     your colleagues.

     Danielle and Jean Thierry-Mieg 
     CNRS-CRBM
     BP 5051,
     34033  Montpellier, France.

     email mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr
      (if this address fails, fall back on mieg@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

     Tel: (33) 67 61 33 24
     Fax: (33) 67 52 15 59

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Q411:Who prepared this document & where is the current version?


    [Note to international readers: 411 is the phone number for
    information in the USA. --bks]

    This document will be posted monthly to the BIOSCI newsgroup
    bionet.software.acedb and to USENET conference news.answers.
    It is intended to be used as an index to ACEDB databases and
    to information about the database software.

    The latest text version of the ACEDB FAQ should be available via
    anonymous ftp at machine net.bio.net (134.172.2.69) as
    file pub/BIOSCI/ACEDB/ACEDB.FAQ or at rtfm.mit.edu
    (18.70.0.209) as pub/usenet/news.answers/acedb-faq. Answer 3
    demonstrates a sample FTP session.  If you only have
    electronic mail, the FAQ can be retrieved from
    mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu.

    There is an HyperText Markup Language (HTML) version of this
    document available on the World Wide Web:
        http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedocs/acedbfaq.html
        http://s27w007.pswfs.gov/Homepage/acedbfaq.html

    Curators of ACEDB databases should take note of Question 4 and
    keep me apprised of changes.

    Errors of commission or omission are unintentional.  If I have
    forgotten to give you credit please let me know.  Please
    send comments and corrections to: acedbfaq@s27w007.pswfs.gov

    Major contributions in getting this FAQ off the ground
    were made by John McCarthy and Mike Cherry.  Other
    contributors include:

        Lisa Lorenzen
        David Matthews
        Edie Paul
        Donn Davy
        Eric De Mund
        Sam Cartinhour


    Please cite as:
      Sherman, Bradley K. (1994) "ACEDB Genome Database FAQ."
      Usenet news.answers.  Available via Universal Resource
      Locator ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/acedb-faq

    To add or modify information in this document, please
    send mail to: acedbfaq@s27w007.pswfs.gov

      
      Bradley K. Sherman
      Dendrome Project                
      Institute of Forest Genetics    
      P.O. Box 245, Berkeley, CA, 94701
      Phone: 510-559-6437 Fax: 510-559-6440  
      

    The Dendrome Project and TreeGenes are funded by the
    USDA ARS Plant Genome Research Program.

          --bks
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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 07 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!bcm!news.tamu.edu!rigel.tamu.edu!grl6732
From: grl6732@rigel.tamu.edu (Gerard R. Lazo)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re: Write Access
Date: 8 Jun 1994 08:16 CDT
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jld@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Joanne Dicks) writes...
> 
>I'm having a problem with acedb and am wondering if anyone can set me
>straight on it. I recently converted to version 3.0 for Solaris and 
>haven't had many problems with it. However for the last couple of
>days I haven't been able to get Write Access. The option is missing
>from the main pull-down menu. The environment variable ACEDB_SU is
>definitely set to TRUE, so it's not that and my username is in
>passwd.wrm. Besides which, I was able to load in files last week.
>It's probably something very small and stupid on my part so I hope
>someone recognizes the problem and can help me out. Thanks.
>

I was having a similar problem (I should try reading the documentation 
sometime); however, I found in my case that the permissions for the
/acedb30/database directory needed to be changed for writing. Likewise,
fror updating the database I needed to change permissions for 
/acedb30/database/blocks.wrm for writing changes. I don't think
think setenv ACEDB_SU was set, but I was able to read *.ace files with
no problem. I hope this helps your situation. 
                                              /
Gerard R. Lazo                   . %.        (=)   GLAZO@tamsun.tamu.edu
USDA-ARS                        (.(  .)       /     Off: 409-260-9533
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Route 5, Box 805                %_( ._)       /       Fax: 409-260-9333
College Station, TX 77845        //\|        (=)   
                                ((            /     lazo@genome.tamu.edu

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 09 23:00:00 1994
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From: mps2@bio6.acpub.duke.edu (Maulin Piyush Shah)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Keyset display?
Date: 10 Jun 1994 16:18:34 GMT
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How can I force the keyset display NOT to be alphabetical.  I want it to be in
Roman numeral numeric order and have some things I added at the end. Basically, a
way to have the keyset show up exactly as I write it in the .ace file would be
ideal. Thanks a lot.
		
				Maulin

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 09 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail
From: rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Richard Durbin)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: empty objects and deletion
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From: Jonathan Karges <J.Karges@dkfz-heidelberg.de>
Message-Id: <199406101511.AA23494@cvx12.inet.dkfz-heidelberg.de>
To: acedev@genome.lbl.gov
Subject: Empty objects...
Status: R

Hi !

I tried to read ace-dumps in ACEDB 3.0 (SPARCstation IPC) and
recognized that after reading the dump file, empty objects (only the
name is known but no data is stored for the objects) are not listed in
the keyset. However, if you then try to create a new object under the
name of an read empty object, this name is known. So, the empty object
has really been stored in the database.

I think, empty objects also should be listed in the keyset.

Best regards

Jonathan

---------------------------------

Your empty objects are not displayed because they are flagged as
deleted objects.  When you delete an object from ACEDB, you in fact
just empty it.  You have to leave a database entry with a name for it
because there may be dangling pointers.  So when an object is saved
with no data in it, it is flagged deleted, and not shown in keyset
listings.  This also applies to empty objects that you try to read in
as empty (they get stored empty).  If you create a name by a reference
from another object, it will not get flagged empty, and will display
in the keyset list, in plain font rather than bold because you can't
display it.  If you want to explicitly create a name for an empty
object that will be displayed in keysets, then you could do so by, for
example, reading in a keyset of them, then deleting the keyset object.
If you want to display an empty object as a tree, you can use the
Add/Alias/Rename window -- you need write access for this, but the
only reason to display an empty tree would be to put data into it.

Sorry this is all a bit round/about.  The equation of deletion with
empty objects is correct with respect to ACEDB semantics.  For
example, it is required to make parsing and acediff work properly.
Also to delete objects created only to hold cross-references, when the
cross-reference is deleted.  These are important.

Richard

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sun Jun 12 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU!mwitten
From: mwitten@CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: URGENT QUESTION
Date: 13 Jun 1994 10:11:59 -0700
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Question:

I am interested in any help from anyone out there on the
following subject. 

We have become an information gathering
society. One of the areas of interest is the gathering of
large databases of information. I was wondering if
anyone out there might know of databases of biomedical
information and how to access them. For example,
GenBank, census data, databases of medical images,
databases of population statistics, environmental
toxicity data, dental data, etc. If you know of such data,
would you please send me the following information: 


Name of Database:
Is the database public or private:
How to contact database or database owner.


I will summarize the responses for the list. This is a
rather urgent request so, rapid answers would be
appreciated. Do not worry about duplicating others.


Feel free to cross post this note to any other lists that
might be appropriate.


Thanks,
Matthew Witten, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Applications Research and Development
Associate Director
UT System Center For High Performance Computing
Balcones Research Center, 1.154 CMS
10100 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758-4497 USA
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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sun Jun 12 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!agate!agate!hcobb
From: hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu (Henry J. Cobb)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Put your help files on the web.
Date: 13 Jun 1994 20:32:07 GMT
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	Here's some Tcl code I cooked up to split ACEDB's help.wrm file
into HTML for Web browsing.

	Next, I'll hack WebAce to link through displays.wrm to the help
html files.

#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh
#
# makehelp.tcl
#
#	converts Acedb wspec/help.wrm style files
#	into a directory of HTML documents.
#
#	example:
#		tcl/makehelp.tcl wspec/help.wrm /usr/local/Web/flydb
#
#	by Henry J. Cobb, June 13th, 1994.
#

set helpsource [lindex $argv 0]
set helpdir	[lindex $argv 1]

set fh [open $helpsource r]

while {[gets $fh line] >= 0} {
   if [string match {\*\**} $line] {
      set words [split $line " "]
      set key [string trim [lindex $words 0] {* }]
      if [string length $key] {
	 lappend myindex $key
      }
   }
}
close $fh

set helpindex "$helpdir/index.html"

set fh [open $helpindex w]

puts $fh {<HEAD>}
puts $fh {<TITLE>Flydb Help Index</TITLE>}
puts $fh {</HEAD>}
puts $fh ""
puts $fh {<BODY>}
foreach key $myindex {
   puts $fh "<a href=\"http:$key.html\">$key</a>"
   puts $fh {<br>}
}
puts $fh {</BODY>}
close $fh

set fh [open $helpsource r]
set helpfile ""
set hfh ""

while {[gets $fh line] >= 0} {
   if [string match {\*\**} $line] {
      set words [split $line " "]
      set key [string trim [lindex $words 0] {* }]
      if [string length $key] {
	 if [string length $helpfile] {
	    puts $hfh {</PRE>}
	    puts $hfh {</BODY>}
	    close $hfh
	 }
	 set helpfile "$helpdir/$key.html"
	 set hfh [open $helpfile w]

	 puts $hfh {<HEAD>}
	 puts $hfh "<TITLE>Flydb Help on $key</TITLE>"
	 puts $hfh {</HEAD>}
	 puts $hfh ""
	 puts $hfh {<BODY>}
	 puts $hfh "(<a href=\"http:index.html\">Index</a>) "
	 puts $hfh " (<a href=\"http:Help.html\">Help on Help</a>)"
	 puts $hfh "<H1>$line</H1>"
	 puts $hfh {<PRE>}
      }
   } else {
      #Normal line of text
      if [string length $helpfile] {
	 set words [split $line " "]
	 foreach key $words {
	    if {-1 == [set myoffset [lsearch -exact $myindex $key]]} {
	       puts -nonewline $hfh "$key "
	    } else {
	       puts -nonewline $hfh "<a href=\"http:$key.html\">$key</a> "
	    }
	 }
	 puts $hfh ""
      }
   }
}
puts $hfh {</PRE>}
puts $hfh {</BODY>}
close $hfh
--
Henry J. Cobb hcobb@fly2.berkeley.edu, Bad-Think Criminal
	This is a fat cross platform .sig virus,
	able to run on many different platforms.

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!MENDEL.AGRON.IASTATE.EDU!lorenzen
From: lorenzen@MENDEL.AGRON.IASTATE.EDU (Lisa Lorenzen)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: SubClass
Date: 15 Jun 1994 05:01:10 -0700
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Hi!  Not meaning to beat a dead horse (I have seen remnants
of this before), but who out there has used the subclass
mechanism??  I would like to look at a database that has
(what it looks like, as well as models/wspecfile if possible) 
and perhaps a reminder of how you invoke the subclass.  I believe
it was  Dave Matthews who asked if you could arrange subclasses
in the main window, or if they always appeared at the bottom,
I never caught the reply to that???


Thanks a lot - 

Lisa :-)



From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
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From: barsteadr@omrf.uokhsc.edu (Bob Barstead, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104 (barsteadr@omrf.uokhsc.edu))
Subject: solaris write access
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For the solaris version of acedb:  As may have been
discussed already, adding users into the passwd.wrm file does not
seem to provide write access, even for the acedb administrator.
Can someone tell me which permissions on which files need to be 
changed in order to get write access.  Also, which files need to
be modified so that other users have read access.

Thanks
Bob Barstead
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
barsteadr@omrf.uokhsc.edu

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail
From: rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Richard Durbin)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re: Contig assembly?
Date: 15 Jun 1994 23:17:18 +0100
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eesnyder@sequana.com asks about contig assembly in ACEDB.

Unfortunately this has a messy history.  The physical map display was
based on the program CONTIG9 written by John Sulston for the C.
elegans mapping project.  Contig9 had full editing and fingerprint
based assembly functions, but the acedb pmap display was originally
only for display of a current state of the map.  We intended to bring
all the editing functions across into acedb, but the person assigned
to do the task turned out to never complete it, and eventually left,
leaving a nearly working mess that nobody else wants to look at.  This
is the code reffered to in the help pages, which is not linked into
the release, so you won't find it.  Sorry for not removing the
references in the help pages.

Since then we have in fact completed a Unix/X port of the original
contig9 software, but outside ACEDB.  In fact this was based on an
automated f2c translation of the VAX fortran, with ACEDB/X graphics
replacing all the terminal based graphics.  This program is called
contigc, and is either now or very soon will be available from
Friedemann Wobus (fw@sanger.ac.uk).  Since the "look and feel" is
still that of a textronix terminal system there is essentially no use
of the mouse, and it looks old-fashioned, but seems to work exactly as
the VAX code did.

More relevant to ACEDB, Jean Thierry-Mieg and Ulrich Sauvage have been
working on new physical map assembly functions linked into the modern
vertical map display of ACEDB.  I gather they have some impressive
results and the interface is more intuitive and potentially much more
powerful.  I suggest you contact them (mieg@crbm.cnrs-mop.fr or
ulrich@crbm.cnrs-mop.fr) to find out the current state of their
system, and whether they can support an active mapping project.

Richard Durbin

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU!matthews
From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re:  solaris write access
Date: 15 Jun 1994 14:58:18 -0700
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Since I'm just now installing a copy of my database on a Solaris 2.3 machine, I
took note of all the steps I did that could be relevant:

The owner of the directory and all its files is 'dmatthew'.
I edited wspec/passwd.wrm to list 'dmatthew'.
I said "setenv ACEDB_SU".
I said "setenv ACEDB <pathname>".
I said "bin/xace".

It worked fine.  "Write Access" appeared as an option at the bottom of the
main menu.  After selecting that, I can "Read .ace files".

> Also, which files need to be modified so that other users have read access.

None, just to read.  However in order for them to print or save queries, it's
good to say "chmod 4755 bin/xace".

Hope this helps.

- Dave

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!jayhawker!eesnyder
From: eesnyder@sequana.com (Eric E. Snyder)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Contig assembly?
Date: 15 Jun 1994 21:50:41 GMT
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I have been spending the few days getting familiar with 
acedb.  I have managed to get most things working, except
the thing I really need: the contig display.  Unfortunately,
the documentation that I have tracked down doesn't say 
much about contigs as such and the on-line help seems not
to match what I am able to display.  

First of all, is it even possible to generate a contig
by simply specifying markers present and absent?  If not,
how does one get to this "contig editor" aluded to in the 
on-line help?  

If I am understanding the system correctly, a certain amount
of structure needs to be define in the the models file.
I found a file that had a definition for class Contig 
(the default file in the ncbi distribution give a "model 
not found error") and got as far as a graphic window with
nothing in it.   If this is the "contig-editor", there 
are no buttons (as in the physical map display) as the 
help states.  

Obviously I am pretty clueless at this point...  but 
is seems like a very worth while package and I would 
like to get this figured out....

Thanks in advance,


Eric E. Snyder, Biocomputational Scientist
Sequana Therapeutics, Inc.
11099 North Torrey Pines Road, Suite 160
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 452-6550 ex 279; (619) 452-6653 fax; eesnyder@sequana.com


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 14 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU!matthews
From: matthews@GREENGENES.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ("Dave Matthews")
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: re: SubClass
Date: 15 Jun 1994 06:11:59 -0700
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> I believe
> it was  Dave Matthews who asked if you could arrange subclasses
> in the main window, or if they always appeared at the bottom,
> I never caught the reply to that???                     

Jean's answer is below.  Sorry, I didn't notice it didn't go to the whole
group.
- Dave

::::::
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 21:58:36 +0100
>From: mieg@kaa.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr (Danielle et Jean Thierry-Mieg)
To: matthews@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Bibliographies and class name ?Paper

1.  The Model class shows models for real classes like Paper but not for
subclasses like Reference.  It would be nice to list the subclasses too, 
even though it's just to show the same model plus the value of Filter.

*** you see the filter in the class Class


2.  I can control where on the main window a visible class is listed, by 
its order in options.wrm, but apparently subclasses appear only at the bottom
of the window.

*** true, taht is a nasty restriction i should eliminate

3.  The data must be loaded as Paper objects.  It would be nice to be able
to load as Reference objects directly, and have ACEDB fill in whatever value
of the Filter is needed, if any.

*** NO, i disagree, is ee subclasses as automatic sorts
however we could separatelly fill some values as part of constraints system


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 16 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!GENOME.STANFORD.EDU!cherry
From: cherry@GENOME.STANFORD.EDU (Mike Cherry)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: xace 3.0 for Solaris 2.3
Date: 16 Jun 1994 21:46:38 -0700
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Hello,

Does anyone have a version of ACEDB 3.0 for Solaris 2.3. I'm a guest
on such a machine and I'm getting the following error:

   ld.so.1: xace3: fatal: libXaw.so.5: can't open file: errno=2

Or does someone have a statically linked version for Solaris 2.3?

Thanks,
Mike

J. Michael Cherry                       Internet: cherry@genome.stanford.edu
Head, Computing                         Stanford DNA Sequence & Tech. Center
Project Manager                         Saccharomyces Genome Database
Stanford University School of Medicine  Stanford, CA 94305-5120
Voice: 415-723-7541                     FAX: 415-723-7016

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 16 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!daresbury!trane.uninett.no!sunic!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!128.194.15.2!leland
From: leland@straylight.tamu.edu (Leland Ellis)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: ACeDB3.0/3.1c
Followup-To: bionet.software.acedb
Date: 17 Jun 1994 14:49:08 GMT
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	and Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston
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Hello, In response to Mike Cherry's query, I should have added that, the
files retrieved were:

ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/acedb/ace3/bin.solaris.3_0.tar.Z

and

ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/repository/acedb/ace3/ace.3.1.c.sun-static.test.tar.gz

which are the dynamically linked xace3 binary for acedb3.0 and the
statically linked abi binary for acedb3.1c.  Both work under Solaris 2.3.

Cheers,

Leland

--
********************************************************************
                               
Leland Ellis, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director, W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M University
2121 Holcombe
Houston, Texas  77030

********************************************************************

email: leland@straylight.tamu.edu
URL:   http://straylight.tamu.edu/straylight.html
GenomeMOO:  telnet://straylight.tamu.edu:7777/
MOOmail:  Wizard in GenomeMOO

********************************************************************

"We all live in the world as we imagine it, as we create it."

Andrey Tarkovsky, 'Sculpting in Time -- Reflections on the Cinema'

********************************************************************

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jun 16 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!bcm!news.tamu.edu!128.194.15.2!leland
From: leland@straylight.tamu.edu (Leland Ellis)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re: xace 3.0 for Solaris 2.3
Date: 17 Jun 1994 14:42:45 GMT
Organization: W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences
	and Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston
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In-reply-to: cherry@GENOME.STANFORD.EDU's message of 16 Jun 1994 21:46:38 -0700

Hello, libXaw.so.5 is in /usr/openwin/lib under Solaris 2.3.  The dynamically
linked xace3 in the acedb3.0 distribution from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov works under
Solaris 2.3 if /usr/openwin/lib is in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the user's
.cshrc.

Just did the above from scratch to be sure.

The acedb3.1c availabe as above is statically linked.

Cheers,

L.

--
********************************************************************
                               
Leland Ellis, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director, W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M University
2121 Holcombe
Houston, Texas  77030

********************************************************************

email: leland@straylight.tamu.edu
URL:   http://straylight.tamu.edu/straylight.html
GenomeMOO:  telnet://straylight.tamu.edu:7777/
MOOmail:  Wizard in GenomeMOO

********************************************************************

"We all live in the world as we imagine it, as we create it."

Andrey Tarkovsky, 'Sculpting in Time -- Reflections on the Cinema'

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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sun Jun 19 23:00:00 1994
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From: rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Richard Durbin)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: libXaw.so.5 problem on Solaris
Date: 20 Jun 1994 16:02:39 +0100
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It seems this is a file permission problem.  You must run non-setuid
to eliminate it.  I don't know why this problem arises only with this
library, but for now put it down to yet another SOLARIS inconsistency/bug.

While on the subject, SUN now admit that the Openwindows 3 server is bugged
in "Click to Select" mode (the default) in a way that (a) sometimes causes
the whole screen to hang when double clicking too fast in ACEDB, (b) causes
funny lines to appear with middle button dragging before centering in ACEDB.
You can fix these by going to "Point to select" in "Preferences" from the
Openwindows root menu -- I would welcome help in finding workarounds in the
ACEDB graph library code.

If you need write access for multiple users (the reason for setuid) I suggest
you set up a group and give group read/write access to the database files.

Ricahrd

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jun 22 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk!eddy
From: eddy@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk (Edward Welbourne (Genetics))
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re: Travelling to Montpelier from UK
Date: 23 Jun 1994 14:55:27 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
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To: eddy@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk (Edward Welbourne (Genetics))
In-reply-to: eddy@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk's message of 20 Jun 1994 13:27:45 GMT

In article <EDDY.94Jun20142745@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk> eddy@eddy.gen.cam.ac.uk (Edward Welbourne (Genetics)) writes:

> due to some communications glitches, we've ended up with four tickets
> for a party of three.  Does anyone out there have a use for a ticket
> from London (Gatwick, 10:40 am) to Montpelier (13:20) on Saturday July
> the second ?  ie, in time for the conference.
> 
> It cost us 251 pounds; if you can offer us more than we'll recover from
> the travel agent you're onto a safe bet; but be quick or I may have
> struck a deal with the travel agent.
> 
> 	Eddy.

OK, it's now too late -- I've cancelled the extra ticket.

	Eddy.
--
				...   Few indeed are those who, travelling
it, have crossed the dark and yawning Abyss of Implementation to Delivery.
Many, yea, many in truth stagnate yet in the Desert of Delay, or linger ever
in the ghastly limbo called Perpetual Beta.	(from the LOGINATAKA)

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jun 27 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!galaxy.ucr.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!fastrac.llnl.gov!s1.gov!overload.lbl.gov!bks
From: bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov (Bradley K. Sherman)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: No ACEDB FAQ in July
Date: 27 Jun 1994 23:34:47 GMT
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There will be no July '94 FAQ as I will be at the
ACEDB workshop.  The August one will be doubly good.

    --bks

-- 
Bradley K. Sherman                  Computer Scientist
Dendrome Project                    510-559-6437  FAX: -6440
Institute of Forest Genetics        bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov  
P.O. Box 245, Berkeley, CA 94701    http://s27w007.pswfs.gov/People/bks.html

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 28 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!GENOME.STANFORD.EDU!cherry
From: cherry@GENOME.STANFORD.EDU (Mike Cherry)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: New AAtDB available
Date: 28 Jun 1994 18:21:57 -0700
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John Morris has announced the availability of a new version of AAtDB
for both UNIX and Macintosh. For more details see the announcement in
the Arabidopsis BioSci newsgroup.

Mike

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 28 23:00:00 1994
Path: biosci!galaxy.ucr.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.duke.edu!bio6.acpub.duke.edu!mps2
From: mps2@bio6.acpub.duke.edu (Maulin Piyush Shah)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: More conversion programs
Date: 29 Jun 1994 20:37:46 GMT
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I now also have a functional program that will chang End-not Ref format (Mac
bibliographical database program) To .ace format. Once again, let me know if you
need it.
	
				Maulin

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jun 28 23:00:00 1994
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From: mps2@bio6.acpub.duke.edu (Maulin Piyush Shah)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Genbank to Ace formats
Date: 29 Jun 1994 14:57:16 GMT
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Keywords: 
	I have upgraded Mike Cherry's version of gb2ace. I have added several

features that now enable you to convert, directly grom Genbank GB_PL data to ace
format with the following improvements:
	
	 The references are now read and put in ace format as well.
		The journal, date, pages, authors, title, etc.
		are all listed with separate tags. These fit my models 
		perfectly (obviously), and are relatively simple to modify
		otherwise.

	A "-ace" option will take all the output files and combine them into one
		.ace formatted output file. (Previously, there were five separate
		files that needed reading.)

	I have fully commented as much as I could in the kernel, so as to try and
		make modifying the program simple for even non-programmers.

	The program is now useful for Unix stations, and I have it running on my
		Silicon Graphics machine. Some minor changes may be needed ( I really don't know)
		in order to make it run on different machines.

If you would like a copy, let me know, and if there is enough interest (and if
someone can tell me how to) I will post it on the weeds.mgh.harvard.edu anonymous
ftp site. 


			Maulin Shah (mps2@acpub.duke.edu)
			
		
	

