From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jul 01 23:00:00 1996
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From: you@stud.man.ac.uk (PUT Your Name Here)
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Subject: embl2ace
Date: 2 Jul 1996 15:17:28 GMT
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I have downloaded a copy of emble2ace and tried using it to convert a
short embl file (rather than a complete genome file) to ace format 
without success. The program doesn't appear to start up at all. 
Any ideas please?


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jul 02 23:00:00 1996
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From: Roger Horton <mobferh1@stud.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: embl2ace
Date: 3 Jul 1996 09:07:06 GMT
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Does anyone have a copy of "embl2ace" that really works?
The copy I have definitely doesn't! Or is there any other 
software that will convert into ACE format from EMBL or GENBANK?

Roger Horton,
University of Manchester.


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jul 10 23:00:00 1996
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In article <4s354f$1p2@hollywood.cinenet.net>, HLD PUBLISHING <> wrote:
...
>Due to HLD PUBLISHING limited list of Newsgroups, it is not our policy to 
>remove a newsgroup from our list free of charge. To be removed from our 
>list of future commericial postings by HLD PUBLISHING COMPANY an Annual 

I like this word "commericial" --sort of a chimera of
commercial and comical.

    --bks


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jul 11 23:00:00 1996
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From: taka@NIHS.GO.JP (Takako Igarashi)
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Subject: cell division time of ACeDB
Date: 12 Jul 1996 02:33:13 -0700
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Hello!

In "Cell" class of ACeDB ( C. elegans genome database ) 
there are two kinds of cell division time information; 
"Embryo_division_time" and "Reconstruction  N2-EMB-1  
Birth". Each time data of the same cell is different. 
Could anyone tell me the difference between two data? Or 
could anyone tell me any description of cell lineage data 
of ACeDB?  

Thank you in advance.

Takako Igarashi
National Institute of Health Sciences
1-18-1, Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 158
TEL 03-3700-1141 ext.296
FAX 03-5717-7180
email taka@nihs.go.jp


From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Mon Jul 15 23:00:00 1996
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From: rd@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Richard Durbin)
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Subject: ACEDB data release for C.elegans
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This is a broadcast message to the ACEDB mailing list and related
newsgroups.  If you are on the explicit mailing list and do not want
to be, please send email to rd@sanger.ac.uk.

ACEDB data updates WG1.4-4 and WS1.4-9 to 4-12 for C. elegans
=============================================================

You should be using these in conjunction with release 4_3 of the acedb
software.

Reminder: there are now two versions of the C.elegans database.  The
WS1 update series contains everything, whereas WG1 update series
contains all data except sequences and directly related material
(proteins, motifs etc.), for those with limited resources. 

The additions since WG1.4-3 and WS1.4-8 are:

for both types of update

  - a physical map update with many changes (June 24th)
  - some cgc references have been added (April 11th) also
	a new set of connections between references and Loci
  - cgc strains update (May)
  - wbg subscribers update (May)
  - wbg14.3 citations and abstracts
  - genetic data left over from submissions for the new Worm map last year
    (although a few outstanding points need clearing up next time)
  - a set of transgenic strains from David Baillie has been added
  - more expression data from Ian Hope and Donna Albertson and more pictures

and for just the complete database including sequences WS1.4-9

  Data fom St Louis and Sanger Sequence databases taken in mid-June:
  - There are now 1464 cosmids totalling 44,150,616 bases.  We are
	nearly half way!
  - We are switching from using the PIR protein database for homology 
	searches to the TREMBL database, hence many PIR homologies are 
	being deleted and TR ones added.
	   
The total database sizes after adding these updates are 370Mb for the
WS1 database (we said it would grow!) and around 65Mb for the WG1
database.

It will take a long time to read in the WS1 updates, particularly
4-12.  All four updates took us several hours.

APOLOGIES
=========

For some reason, some of the Sequence-* map displays, which show the
status of the cosmids being sequenced, are not automatically updated
properly.  If no coloured boxes are displayed when you show a Sequence
map, then please select "Recalculate" from the main menu.  To avoid
you from having to do this every time, you should get write access
first, then save after recalculating.

Sorry, we inadvertently left out Restriction enzymes last time when we
were re-building the whole database.  This meant that enzyme sites
could not be specified by name when using the DNA analysis tool.
Poetic justice caught up with Sylvia when teaching ACeDB to a class.
They have been added in this release.

We failed in the initial WG1 and WS1 releases to include the wscripts
directory containing the display_script for viewing the expression
pictures.  They are included this time.

The DNA became inaccessible in the Macintosh version of WS1.  We are
trying to resolve this problem before the next mac release.

The abstracts for the regional worm meetings 1996 did not make this
release, but will be in the next one.  Plus further transposon mapping
data.

Instructions for obtaining updates/the whole thing
==================================================

All the files are available in the following public access accounts
(anonymous ftp sites) accessible over internet:

  ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.20.1) in the USA, in repository/acedb
  ftp.sanger.ac.uk (193.60.84.11) in England, in pub/acedb
  lirmm.lirmm.fr (193.49.104.10) in France, in directory genome/acedb

In each case, log in as user "anonymous" and give a user identifier
as password.  Remember to transfer the files in BINARY mode by
typing the word "binary" at the start of your ftp session.  Many
thanks to NCBI for letting us share in their excellent resource.

Example:

ftp ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
login: anonymous
password: your user id or email address
cd repository/acedb             # change to relevant directoy
binary				# IMPORTANT
dir				# display files in this directory
get README
get NOTES
get INSTALL
cd ace4				# change to ace4 directory
get bin.sunos.4_3.tar.Z		# get program
cd ../celegans			# change to worm data directory
mget update.WS1.*		# get all WS1 update files
quit

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

Get any update files that you do not have already and read the file
NOTES before proceeding further.

Always get a copy of the INSTALL script.  Move it and the .tar.Z files
into the home directory in which you are installing ACEDB.  Type
"source INSTALL".  Start acedb (normally by typing "acedb"), click
"Yes" to accept initialising the database if starting from scratch,
then choose "Add Update File" from the menu (right button), and press
"All updates" with the left mouse button.

If you have a problem making the program work, look at the section
on problems in NOTES, and if that fails to help, let us know.

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

Comments about the data should be sent to the data curator, Sylvia
Martinelli (sylvia@sanger.ac.uk).

Comments about the program, or the installation procedure, should be
sent to one of us:

Richard Durbin (rd@sanger.ac.uk)
Jean Thierry-Mieg (mieg@kaa.cnrs-mop.fr)

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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jul 17 23:00:00 1996
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From: Jason Martin <jason@sequana.com>
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Fatal Errors with blixem/dotter
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 18:37:31 -0700
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Wondering if anyone could help with a blixem/dotter problem when called
from acedb:
 
After calling up blixem on a Pep_homol, a sequence from the alignment
is seleted for 'Dotter HSPs only'.  The first one usually works,
provided the sequence is either in the database, or is fetchable.  But
the second one always crashes the session, leaving this error message:
 
!! FATAL ERROR 0: !! Cannot get box 3 - index out of range
 
 
I have traced this error back in the source, and it seems to arise after
a call to gBoxGet() after being called from graphBoxDraw() which is
called from highlightProteinboxes() in dotter.c. (mouthful)
 
I have used the standard makefile for 'SOLARIS_4_RELEASE', and 
compiled it on a sparc-20.
 
Anyone else have these problems on this or another platform?  
Any help appreciated.
 
Jason

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Jason Martin
Biocomputational Scientist
Sequana Therapeutics, Inc.
11099 North Torrey Pines Rd. Suite 160
La Jolla, CA 92037

(619)-646-8377
(619)-452-6653  [FAX]
jason@sequana.com
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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Thu Jul 18 23:00:00 1996
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From: esr@sanger.ac.uk
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: Re: Fatal Errors with blixem/dotter
Date: 19 Jul 1996 10:52:39 GMT
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Jason wrote:

> After calling up blixem on a Pep_homol, a sequence from the alignment
> is seleted for 'Dotter HSPs only'.  The first one usually works,
> provided the sequence is either in the database, or is fetchable.  But
> the second one always crashes the session, leaving this error message:
>  
> !! FATAL ERROR 0: !! Cannot get box 3 - index out of range

Sorry folks, this bug had not been detected because it only occurs
when the environment variable ACEDB_PROJECT is not set.  Since we
always have that variable set, we never saw the bug.

If you're suffering from it, there a two fast fixes:

1. setenv ACEDB_PROJECT (in the script or shell that calls xace)

2. comment out these lines in w9/dotter.c:

	if (!getenv("ACEDB_PROJECT")) {
            initAlignment();
        }

A more elegant fix will be made to the next source release.  For the
standalone version of Blixem, the FTP site executables have been
fixed.

Erik Sonnhammer

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Sun Jul 21 23:00:00 1996
Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!mr.net!news.ios.com!usenet
From: shahvika@pilot.msu.edu (Vikas Shah)
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Subject: Molecular Modelling
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:17:23 GMT
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I am an undergraduate student at Michigan State University, entering
my junior year this fall.  I am investigating molecular modelling
packages for research I plan on doing next summer, and am writing to
ask for help and recommendations regarding the wide variety of
packages out there.  I need to be able to do energy minimizations as
well as geometry optimizations, predict electron densities, zoom in
and out among structures, and - if possible - view and record
particle-particle interactions.  Here's the catch -- I am running an
IBM 486DX2 66 Mhz with 20 MB of RAM and 1 MB vRAM with Win95.  I am
planning on upgrading if possible, but that will depend on funding.
Forget system speed for now, I just need to know the best packages out
there.  Please mail shahvika@pilot.msu.edu.  Thank you.

Vikas Shah

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jul 23 23:00:00 1996
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From: JD Barnett <jbarnett@nalusda.gov>
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Subject: www <-> acedb
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:29:05 -0400
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A www interface to acedb (version 4.3) is available at

ftp://probe.nal.usda.gov/pub/tools/webace.tar.gz

Installation instructions are at

http://probe.nal.usda.gov:8000/acedocs/webace.html
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From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Tue Jul 30 23:00:00 1996
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From: jattwood@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Mr J. Attwood)
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Subject: Contigs don't appear on gMap display in v4.3 for SunOS4
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Hi,

	I'm just upgrading to 4.3 from 4.1, on a SS10, running SunOS 4.1.3.
I've merged my old old model with the new one but, after loading my map
and clone data, building the maps and aligning the contigs, none of my 
contigs appear on the gMap display. Previously many of them appeared in
the Contigs column and one or two appeared in the Interval column, both in
the default view. The .ace file generated by the align contigs option is
identical to the one produced by v4.1 (after Richard kindly squashed a bug
for us), and the input data have not changed in any way.

	Suggestions on what to do about this gratefully received, as I
can't see anything obvious that's causing it, unless the default view in
4.3 is somehow different to the one in 4.1. As my newsreading is way
behind, I would appreciate an email copy of any replies, at the address
below.

Thanks in advance,

John Attwood,
john@galton.ucl.ac.uk

From owner-acedb@net.bio.net Wed Jul 31 23:00:00 1996
Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail
From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator)
Newsgroups: bionet.software.acedb
Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser
Date: 1 Aug 1996 02:00:10 -0700
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(LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95)

This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up
the *most frequently*.  The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL
http://www.bio.net/.

If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other
documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail
queries sent to

		       biosci-help@net.bio.net

We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and
mailing lists.  We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet
information searches or answer scientific questions.  Please post
those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups.


	Contents:
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	0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!

	1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups.

	2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc.

	3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists.

	4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory.


0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!!
------------------------------
BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now
operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our
Web site at http://www.bio.net/.  We need just a few minutes of your
time to help us serve you.

You can do two important things which will take very little time for
you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you.

First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the
archives.  You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as
described in item #1 below.  Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you
contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for
supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if
they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term.

Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides
products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass
this message on to your marketing or marketing communications
department or other appropriate group.  Please ask them to help
support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and
benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are
interested, they can then contact us for further information at our
tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net.


1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups.
--------------------------------------------------------
As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are
accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net.
One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings
and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured
properly to send e-mail.  Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS
index.  The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS
Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address
database described in another item further below.


2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc.
-------------------------------------------------------
BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups),
mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/.
The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small
number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net).  Unfortunately it
is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out
to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of
newsgroups and mailing lists.  These attempts to grab free advertising
are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net
terminology.  USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many
spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the
mailing lists.  However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses
and hit these too, so neither medium is immune.

What should you do personally if you get junk mail?
---------------------------------------------------
Just delete it and move on without reading it further.  Filing a
protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often
disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from.  Unless you
really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by
sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the
address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing.

What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups?
----------------------------------------------------
The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup.
If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape.
Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the
spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists
completely.  Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the
time to review each message before it goes out.  We have set up
software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an
address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed.
This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass
it on, say about 1 min. per message.

Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible
for their newsgroup.  The discussions leaders and their e-mail
addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is
available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/.  If a newsgroup is being
hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader
for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group.
Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the
newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your
complaint.  With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has
to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems
directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net.

We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells
us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator
is willing to do the work.  For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this
entails only a few minutes of work each day.

Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings
on the USENET distribution.  Unfortunately there are easy ways for
determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET,
but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if
the newsgroup is moderated.  You can also access our newsgroups over
the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net.  While this Web interface will not
stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you
yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of
your personal mail files.  For those of you with local USENET news
systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new
newsgroups and recent postings.


3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists.
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PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on
subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the
newsgroups and mailing lists.  People who do this only bother everyone
on the lists to no avail.  Please be sure to follow the proper
procedures below.

Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at
http://www.bio.net.  Below we give an example utilizing the
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites:

Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI
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A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   for the group.  These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet.  For
   the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is
   methods@net.bio.net.  The listname is the portion of the address to
   the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods".  The listname is used with
   the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below.

B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to
   biosci-server@net.bio.net.  Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup
   posting addresses!  Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it
   will be ignored.

C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following
   commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g.,

   subscribe methods
   unsubscribe methods
   end

   Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines.  The
   server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address
   on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list.
   Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has
   changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells
   you that you are not a member.


Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at
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To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to
specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended.
The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet
on the Web at http://www.bio.net/.  For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list
the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the
appropriate commands are

    sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts

    unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts

These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk,
NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses.  As usual, include the text in
the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored.

To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use

    unsub bionet-news

Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one
in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by
this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk.


4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory.
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Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research
interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have
not already done so.

You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL
http://www.bio.net/adrform.html.

The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is
http://www.bio.net/).  If you are not directly on the Internet but can
reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user
directory.  waismail use is described above.  You can also request a
user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net.

Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your
address information is still up-to-date.  Because of our limited
personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to
revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have
resources to edit old forms.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIOSCI/bionet Manager

				biosci-help@net.bio.net

