From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Dec 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.186.0.134!ptdnetP!newsgate.ptd.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!newscore.univie.ac.at!03-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!fstgal00.tu-graz.ac.at!spaniel From: smith@umes07.avl.co.at (Search Spaniel) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Software-search the web quickly with Search Spaniel Date: Wed, 03 Dec 97 17:35:21 GMT Organization: Search Spaniel Lines: 4 Message-ID: <250108700@searchspaniel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: isdn024.tu-graz.ac.at To Software-search the most search engines in the shortest time, use the internet's newest search engine - Search Spaniel at: http://www.searchspaniel.com/ From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Dec 02 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.59.152.222!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.new-york.net!news.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail From: Justin Lee Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Mini Analysis Program Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 13:36:37 -0500 Organization: Columbia University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3485A6B4.4D5F3D87@columbia.edu> Reply-To: cjl2@columbia.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: bb110101.cpmc.columbia.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (Win95; U) Hi, I have written a mini analysis program to analyse spontaneous miniature EPSCs or IPSCs under Windows environment. It can detect 3pA peaks with 5pA noise. It can also be used for any spontaneous activities, such as spontaneous action potential firing, current recordings for electochemical measurements, etc.. Please visit at http://128.59.170.42 to download the program and try it out. I also have several other programs useful for electophysiology and immunocytochemistry. Justin Lee -- Columbia University Department of Physiology 630 W. 168th Street BB1106 New York, NY 10032 Phone (212) 305-3817 Fax (212) 305-5775 e-mail cjl2@columbia.edu http://128.59.170.42 ftp://128.59.170.42 From owner-srs@net.bio.net Wed Dec 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!141.211.144.13.MISMATCH!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.eerie.fr!jussieu.fr!infobiogen.fr!newsmaster From: Jean-Marc Plaza Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: blast on srs5.1 Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 12:34:23 +0100 Organization: INFOBIOGEN Lines: 76 Message-ID: <3486953F.745F@infobiogen.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.infobiogen.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) I have a problem with the output of blast application We use blast 1.4.9MP. the message error for the blast research is : file could not be opened "blast_nam.inx" Information: no entries found, query: "[blast-name:temp]" but the script file ans the result is built: blast.csh blast_id.dbs temp.blast tmp.seq user.par Is it a problem of prasing blast output of 1.4.9MP? Regards, Jean-Marc -------------------------------------------------------------- more temp.blast BLASTP 1.4.9MP [26-March-1996] [Build 14:46:45 May 2 1997] Reference: Altschul, Stephen F., Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene W. Myers, and David J. Lipman (1990). Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-10. Query= 104K_THEPA (924 letters) Database: /env/infobiogen/db/swissprot/SPblast/sprot 59,021 sequences; 21,210,388 total letters. Searching..................................................done WARNING: -hspmax 100 was exceeded with 18 of the database sequences, with as many as 303 HSPs being found at one time. Smallest Sum High Probability Sequences producing High-scoring Segment Pairs: Score P(N) N sw|P15711|104K_THEPA 104 KD MICRONEME-RHOPTRY ANTIGEN. 4916 0.0 1 sw|P19246|NFH_MOUSE NEUROFILAMENT TRIPLET H PROTEIN (200... 112 7.9e-13 3 sw|P16884|NFH_RAT NEUROFILAMENT TRIPLET H PROTEIN (200 K... 100 3.5e-12 4 sw|P14918|EXTN_MAIZE EXTENSIN PRECURSOR (PROLINE-RICH GL... 115 2.4e-11 2 sw|P24152|EXTN_SORVU EXTENSIN PRECURSOR (PROLINE-RICH GL... 109 2.5e-11 3 sw|Q00451|PRF1_LYCES 36.4 KD PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN. 101 3.5e-11 4 ... -- --------------------------------------------------- Jean-Marc PLAZA INFOBIOGEN - CNRS 7, rue Guy Moquet BP8 94801 VILLEJUIF Cedex, France tel: +33 45 59 52 39 fax: +33 45 59 52 50 e-mail: plaza@infobiogen.fr --------------------------------------------------- From owner-srs@net.bio.net Wed Dec 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!eerie.fr!jussieu.fr!infobiogen.fr!newsmaster From: Jean-Marc Plaza Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: blast on srs5.1 Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 14:08:55 +0100 Organization: INFOBIOGEN Lines: 77 Message-ID: <3486AB67.7620@infobiogen.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.infobiogen.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Sorry This news replace the one before ----- Hi, I am using on test the new version of srs 5.1 I have a problem with the output of blast application We use blast 1.4.9MP. the message error for the blast research is : file could not be opened "blast_nam.inx" Information: no entries found, query: "[blast-name:temp]" but the script file ans the result is built: blast.csh blast_id.dbs temp.blast tmp.seq user.par Is it a problem of prasing blast output of 1.4.9MP? more temp.blast BLASTP 1.4.9MP [26-March-1996] [Build 14:46:45 May 2 1997] Reference: Altschul, Stephen F., Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene W. Myers, and David J. Lipman (1990). Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-10. Query= 104K_THEPA (924 letters) Database: /env/infobiogen/db/swissprot/SPblast/sprot 59,021 sequences; 21,210,388 total letters. Searching..................................................done WARNING: -hspmax 100 was exceeded with 18 of the database sequences, with as many as 303 HSPs being found at one time. Smallest Sum High Probability Sequences producing High-scoring Segment Pairs: Score P(N) N sw|P15711|104K_THEPA 104 KD MICRONEME-RHOPTRY ANTIGEN. 4916 0.0 1 sw|P19246|NFH_MOUSE NEUROFILAMENT TRIPLET H PROTEIN (200... 112 7.9e-13 3 sw|P16884|NFH_RAT NEUROFILAMENT TRIPLET H PROTEIN (200 K... 100 3.5e-12 4 sw|P14918|EXTN_MAIZE EXTENSIN PRECURSOR (PROLINE-RICH GL... 115 2.4e-11 2 sw|P24152|EXTN_SORVU EXTENSIN PRECURSOR (PROLINE-RICH GL... 109 2.5e-11 3 sw|Q00451|PRF1_LYCES 36.4 KD PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN. 101 3.5e-11 4 ... -- --------------------------------------------------- Jean-Marc PLAZA INFOBIOGEN - CNRS 7, rue Guy Moquet BP8 94801 VILLEJUIF Cedex, France tel: +33 45 59 52 39 fax: +33 45 59 52 50 e-mail: plaza@infobiogen.fr --------------------------------------------------- From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Dec 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gip.net!news-dc.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.sprintlink.co.za!iafrica.com!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Please read Date: 5 Dec 1997 15:36:56 GMT Organization: UUNET Internet Africa Lines: 4 Message-ID: <01bd019c$03802e60$65181fc4@malidis> NNTP-Posting-Host: 196-31-24-101.iafrica.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Do you have a programme that I can make my own home page? If you do please send it to me. Thanx From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Dec 04 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!NET.BIO.NET!biosci-help From: biosci-help@NET.BIO.NET (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: ATTN: BIO-SRS/bionet.software.srs to convert to automoderation for spam Date: 5 Dec 1997 12:28:17 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 174 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: Reply-To: biosci-help@net.bio.net NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net As announced earlier in bionet.forum, we will soon implement a new policy to control spam in unmoderated bionet groups. The original message is copied directly below. Appended after it is a copy of my proposed new group charter for BIO-SRS/bionet.software.srs. It is not intended to change the status quo for serious scientific discussion, but only to eliminate commercial and pornographic spam messages. If you have any suggestions for change in the text or in the policy, please let me know within the next few days. Thanks, Serge Taylor Biosci Administrator Stanford University ============== original message ============================== As part of our effort to eliminate "spam" messages which are offensive and distracting to the scientific discussions which the Biosci newsgroups are designed to facilitate, we are creating a new type of moderated newsgroup -- "Moderated (only to filter out spam)". Our rationale is that only what usenet recognizes as "moderated" newsgroups can filter mail postings, yet it has proven difficult to find volunteer moderators from each newsgroup. Our intention is to use a combination of human and software filters to eliminate the most egregious examples of spam. Since we value diversity of opinion in scientific communications, and recognize that our efforts are unavoidably subject to both Type I and Type II errors, we aim to err on the side of allowing arguably scientifically relevant communications to be posted. We intend to convert all the unmoderated bionet newsgroups to the new status as soon as possible, and forsee two situations: (1) Where a charter exists for an established but unmoderated group, we will take the current charter and add the following language (taken From the policy statement which we send to anyone who wishes to start a new newsgroup or convert an unmoderated to moderated newsgroup, and suitably customized to the newsgroup where necessary) on "Moderation Policy": "Moderation Policy: Mass-posted commercial messages, chain letters, and similar postings not germane to the stated purpose of the charter will be deleted without comment. Inappropriate messages posted in good faith will be returned to the sender where feasible. Messages not strictly within the charter but likely to be of interest to many subscribers will be accepted. Use of the newsgroup for commercial purposes is prohibited." The proposed new charter will be posted to the newsgroup for a short comment period. (2) Where a charter does not exist for an established unmoderated group, we will solicit the newsgroup's discussion leader(s), where listed, to draft a non-controversial charter and submit it to the newsgroup for a short comment period. If at any time a moderated-for-spam newsgroup wishes to convert to a regular "moderated" group, with its own moderator, we shall be happy to treat such a request just as we do the request to change from unmoderated to moderated status. Finally, if a currently moderated group wishes to take advantage of the spam filtering software to ease the administrative burden on the moderator, we will discuss the logistics and policy guidelines with the group's moderator. (We will notify moderators when we are ready to offer this facility; we are not currently ready.) We hope that these new arrangements will protect the integrity of our newsgroups and allow us to focus on other ways of improving Biosci. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we deal with the spam problem. Serge Taylor Biosci Administrator Stanford University Libraries ========== proposed modified charter ==================== Proposal for BIO-SRS/bionet.software.srs (moderated-for-spam) USENET newsgroup name: bionet.software.srs Status: Moderated-for-spam One line Description: Discussions about Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) software Moderation address: bio-srs@net.bio.net (bio-srs-moderator@net.bio.net is an alias for bio-srs@net.bio.net) Moderator: Biosci Staff Mailing list name: BIO-SRS E-mail postings addresses: bio-srs@net.bio.net bio-srs@daresbury.ac.uk Provide support and discussion for maintainers and users of SRS-based software packages. This includes servers based on WorldWideWeb as well as local installations and the definition of new database connections into the SRS database network via suitable tools as provided with the software. Charter: Announce, and inform on, new achievements on information servers running the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) engine. This affects predominantly data and services in the biology and/or related areas which can be accessed via electronic networked information retrieval software (WWW or specific client software). Announcements from the author (Thure Etzold) or other developers, proposals and discussions of customers, maintainers and developers with respect to new strategies and tools, as well user and maintainer support shall inform and invite to participate. Exclusion: General issues on accompanying software problems shall be placed in bionet.software or suitable software-specific newsgroups in the comp hierarchy. Established WWW, GOPHER, or other services not dealing with the SRS or associated software shall be discussed in other newsgroups. Specific items on the non-biology related technical side of the server software are not intended to be discussed in length but will be mentioned publically in case of need. The newsgroup shall not be used for large papers and discussions, as the posting of the link to a suitable document or archive server will be sufficient. Moderation Policy: This newsgroup is moderated by automatic spam filtering software and by Biosci personnel, implementing the following policy: Mass-posted commercial messages, chain letters, and similar postings not germane to the stated purpose of the charter will be deleted without comment. Inappropriate messages posted in good faith will be returned to the sender where feasible. Messages not strictly within the charter but likely to be of interest to many subscribers will be accepted. Use of the newsgroup for commercial purposes is prohibited. FAQ: Periodic (e.g., quarterly) postings of a FAQ are intended. Background: The Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) as created by Thure Etzold has been made available on the VMS platform initially but is now also running on many flavours of the UNIX operating system. Its main advantage is the ability to interlink databases of extremely heterogenous origin. Currently, more than 35 databases can be browsed on seven servers accessible via the WWW protocol (as an entry, try the URL http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs/status.html). Besides local command line access, future developments include the networked environment with special clients as well as commandline interface retrieval tools via the HASSLE system as created by Reinhard Doelz. Reference point server URL: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs/srsc Discussion Leaders: Thure Etzold, EMBL Heidelberg etzold@embl-heidelberg.de Reinhard Doelz, Biozentrum Basel doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sun Dec 07 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.kornet.nm.kr!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.fast.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!news1.saix.net!usenet From: "spy" Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: Please read Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 07:27:46 +0200 Organization: The South African Internet Exchange. Lines: 4 Message-ID: <66g0eq$bc4@news1.saix.net> References: <01bd019c$03802e60$65181fc4@malidis> NNTP-Posting-Host: kby2.marques.co.za X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Pleeeeeeze....i need omnipage From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Dec 09 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!205.252.116.205.MISMATCH!howland.erols.net!news2.chicago.iagnet.net!131.103.1.115!news1.chicago.iagnet.net!iagnet.net!ixa.net!news.aa.net!not-for-mail From: psewell@aa.net (Paul Sewell) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: Please read Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 05:35:40 GMT Organization: Alternate Access Inc. Lines: 39 Message-ID: <348e2a1a.5489953@news.aa.net> References: <01bd019c$03802e60$65181fc4@malidis> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.157.220.10 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Cache-Post-Path: moon.aa.net!unknown@cust171.pm6.everett.aa.net try this site happy holidays where ever you are......:-) Why not take the time to come and visit The Jumpgate. http://www.aa.net/~psewell A vast file area for you to browse and download many useful and interesting programs. The screen savers area has over 200 files including some great Christmas ones for the upcoming festive season. The desktop themes area has a large amout of themes and utilities to suit all tastes. Come and chat in The Jumpgates chat room where there is allways a good social gathering.. Other areas include Quake , babylon 5 , Music and Formula 1 Grand Prix 2. A forum and message board will be added within the next week. The Jumpgate is updated on a daily bases so when you arrive enter your e-mail address and subscribe to The Jumpgates update newsletter. Dont forget to sign the guest book and let me know what you think of my site and if you have any comments or ideas to improve The Jumpgate. Hope to see you there soon... Thanks for your time. Paul Sewell Http://www.aa.net/~psewell On 5 Dec 1997 15:36:56 GMT, wrote: >Do you have a programme that I can make my own home page? >If you do please send it to me. > >Thanx From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Dec 15 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!152.158.16.55!newsfeed2.uk.ibm.net!ibm.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news.belnet.be!news.vub.ac.be!ben!gbottu From: gbottu@ben.vub.ac.be (Guy Bottu) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: importing entries in Access ? Date: 16 Dec 1997 14:03:52 GMT Organization: Belgian EMBnet Node Lines: 8 Message-ID: <6761o8$j5r@rc1.vub.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: ben.vub.ac.be X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have a question : does someone know of a program/script/utility that processes EMBL entries (retrieved from an SRS server as "flat" file) so that they can be imported in an MS-Access database ? Dr. Guy Bottu This message has also been posted to bionet.molbio.embldatabank and bionet.software.gcg From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Dec 18 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 19 Dec 1997 02:00:13 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199712191000.CAA04329@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (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: -------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Dec 22 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!infobiogen.fr!newsmaster From: Jean-Marc Plaza Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: documentation in new srs5.1.0 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:28:30 +0100 Organization: INFOBIOGEN Lines: 12 Message-ID: <349FD89E.21C1@infobiogen.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.infobiogen.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) CC: etzold@ebi.ac.uk Hi, It seems to have a problem with the documentation for SRS manual mtoc_icarus.html is not found -- --------------------------------------------------- Jean-Marc PLAZA INFOBIOGEN - CNRS 7, rue Guy Moquet BP8 94801 VILLEJUIF Cedex, France tel: +33 45 59 52 39 fax: +33 45 59 52 50 e-mail: plaza@infobiogen.fr --------------------------------------------------- From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Dec 22 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsfeed.nacamar.de!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!uunetukout!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Thure Etzold Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: SRS version 5.1.0 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 01:35:22 +0000 Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 100 Message-ID: <349F1559.F7B77CE2@ebi.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: o2-3.ebi.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32) Dear all, happy Christmas and lots of new features. Have fun! The file is at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/srs/srs5.1.0.tar.gz Release notes: SRS version 5.1.0 ================= -- new features 1) New hierarchical link index allows taxonomic queries and in general queries on hierarchical entry relations. 2) New named indexes group several index files with the same meaning into a single "virtual" index. 3) Created databanks of databanks which allows to search which servers provide specified databanks. -- changes in the www interface 1) New databank selection page, which uses JavaScript and compatible with Netscape 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (and the following minor releases of the programs). Allows working with large sets of databanks. 2) Following user demands, we added new Query form, similar to the one present in srs 4.0. Allows simple views to be directly specified in the query form. The srs5 query form is still available as "alternate query form". 3) In the query result page the user can now select if the operation to be performed is on the "selected" entries or on "all but selected". The second option allows to link or save a set of entries without need to go to the query manager. 4) The View Manager has been simplified by inserting a new front page showing the different options from view management. In the list for selecting the linked databanks, the new named links have been included to allow linking to entire databank groups (i.e. searchDB=all sequence databanks) with one click. 5) The databank information page now shows if a databank is currently being reindexed and it can show the progress of indexing. -- changes in the Icarus language 1) Added objects as a new basic type that can be assigned to variables. Object have methods. Predefined classes Strv (a string class), Sequence, Job. 2) Token tables now accept objects as tokens (using $Wrt:[o:$blabla]). Very useful for streaming and reorganizing large chunks of text. 3) Added the new parsing concept of TINs (Token INdices). The lazy parsing model has beed modified to allow token tables to be dependent from TINs. -- changes in the server maintanance 1) Completely changed the way subentries are described, now using TINs. This modification is NOT backward compatible with the previos version of subentries, but because we don't know of anybody specifying subentries yet, we hope not to give too much trouble :O) 2) New way of adding applications, makes interfacing applications even using remote shells (rsh) a breeze. 3) Now it is possible to limit access to internal resources (databanks, applications or even single fields within a databank) depending from the internet domain which requests access. 4) The way sequences are treated is changed, and it writes the sequence in the token table as a "sequence" object. This object has various methods which allow sequence conversion in all major formats. 5) All existing parsers have been modified to take advantage of TINs and of sequence objects. 6) Inserted the indexing log file as a databank, this allows to quickly spot indexing problems by querying the log file. 7) SRSCHECK now generates calls to SRSBUILD using the new -nn option which causes SRSBUILD to be completely silent (no numbers written during indexing) 8) GETZ has a new option -stat which displays the status of the indexing process for the specified databank. The version has been compiled and tested on IRIX5.3, IRIX6.2, OSF versions 2 and 4, Solaris, Linux. Almost all compiler warnings have been removed. The ones left are inconsequential. Thure Etzold, etzold@ebi.ac.uk Giorgio Verde, verde@ebi.ac.uk 22 Dec, 1997 From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Dec 30 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Webmaster@scienceguide.com (Robert W. 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