From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 02 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!serra.unipi.it!sirio.cineca.it!menelao.polito.it!pcgen07.molinette.unito.it!friard From: friard@area.ba.cnr.it (Olivier Friard) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Index file for SRS Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:31:48 Organization: Politecnico di Torino - Italia Lines: 6 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pcgen07.molinette.unito.it X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] hi, are the index files of SRS (.IDX and .IDS) available? Thank you Olivier From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 02 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.UVic.CA!not-for-mail From: Chris Upton Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: user guide Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:19:05 -0700 Organization: University of Victoria Lines: 5 Message-ID: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.bioc.uvic.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01SGoldC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32) Hi, Could someone point me to a straight forward user guide for SRS? Thanks, Chris Upton From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Jun 04 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.wli.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!194.162.162.196!newsfeed.nacamar.de!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!server5.netnews.ja.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: "Thure Etzold" Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 21:44:58 +0100 Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 52 Message-ID: <6l9ler$a3s$1@niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: idefix.ebi.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Ewan Birney wrote in message <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk>... >Chris Upton wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Could someone point me to a straight forward user guide for SRS? well, i am sorry - i doesn't exist yet. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris Upton > > **straight forward** guide - no > >the guide for SRS off any SRS site, but I have to admit, I just >find it confusing... > >(srsdev... are you listening?) > >There is the problem that SRS is a complex beast, and tough to document. > >But I would give anything for > > a) losing the stupid frames format of the help pages > b) having a nice hardcopy (latex?) representation We are discussing a complete reformat of the existing documentation which is mainly about server maintenance, and to add a lot more 'user documentation'. We noticed that almost nobody is interested to to the real RTFM, i mean, read it all, but only the in bit that is relevant for a particular problem. Our plan is to make a documentation databank called 'srsfaq' or just 'faq' with entries which document only a single task, eg, "get sequences in fasta" format. These entries will have a lot of cross-references to related entries or other pages in the documentation. The main advantage is that it can be indexed and easily be extended by other people with, eg, server specific information. ...we would even be willing to give up frames;-) ..suggestions?? thure From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Jun 04 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!158.43.192.17!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Ewan Birney Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 15:53:07 +0100 Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Lines: 26 Message-ID: <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rathbin.sanger.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; IRIX 5.2 IP22) CC: cup@athena.bioc.uvic.ca Chris Upton wrote: > > Hi, > Could someone point me to a straight forward user guide for SRS? > > Thanks, > Chris Upton **straight forward** guide - no the guide for SRS off any SRS site, but I have to admit, I just find it confusing... (srsdev... are you listening?) There is the problem that SRS is a complex beast, and tough to document. But I would give anything for a) losing the stupid frames format of the help pages b) having a nice hardcopy (latex?) representation -- Ewan Birney http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/birney/ From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Jun 04 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!btnet-peer!btnet!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!delos!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Peter Rice Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: 05 Jun 1998 15:43:13 +0100 Organization: The Sanger Centre Sender: pmr@unst.sanger.ac.uk Message-ID: References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: unst.sanger.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Lines: 55 Ewan Birney writes: > There is the problem that SRS is a complex beast, and tough to document. > > But I would give anything for > > a) losing the stupid frames format of the help pages > b) having a nice hardcopy (latex?) representation Anything Ewan?? As you are just up the corridor, I'll give some thought to my prize for suggesting the following: a) no frames ============ You can lose the frames by going for just the manual section of interest. For example, using NetScape: Go to the SRS top page: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs5/ Go to the SRS manual page: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs51/man/srsman.html In the left hand frame (list of sections) Middle-button click on the one you want, for exmaple SRSWWW for the Web server interface, and it will pop up in a new frame-free window http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs51/man/mtoc_srswww.html ... magically, you are reading that section without frames. b) printed copy ============ Middle-button Click on *any* link in the table of contents to bring up the manual text in a new window. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs51/man/mi_srswww.html#intro Then print from NetScape and you have a printed manual. P.S. Note for Chris Upton (who started this thread) : Kate Neill sends her regards :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Rice | Informatics Division, The Sanger Centre, E-mail: pmr@sanger.ac.uk | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Tel: (44) 1223 494967 | Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, England Fax: (44) 1223 494919 | URL: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/pmr/ From owner-srs@net.bio.net Fri Jun 05 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: 6 Jun 1998 18:07:09 GMT Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 28 Message-ID: <6lc0gd$am$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> <6l9ler$a3s$1@niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: chipmunk.bio.indiana.edu >...we would even be willing to give up frames;-) I recently had to update the local IU biology web server with a frames display (not my choice). The first several comments I got were - drop the frames. HTML frames is a formatting device that seems to cause more hassle than it is worth, to many users. When I try to read documents formatted with them, the frames typically really get in the way of reading. Another significant problem with frames: when an inframe document links to documents from other services, those external docs are typically encapsulated in your frame layout - usually to the detriment of the layout and presentation of that external service. There is a case of one company sueing another in Indiana over this - because it makes it appear to the reader that the external document, enclosed in a local title frame, were owned/presented by the local service. A sort of Internet plagerism. Usually you can accomplish the same formatting without the problems, using HTML tables. - Don -- -- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana-u--bloomington-in-47405 -- gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sat Jun 06 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!delos!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Ewan Birney Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 15:58:42 +0100 Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: <357AAAA2.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> <35780653.41C6@sanger.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: scarp.sanger.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) Lines: 32 Peter Rice wrote: > > Ewan Birney writes: > > > There is the problem that SRS is a complex beast, and tough to document. > > > > But I would give anything for > > > > a) losing the stupid frames format of the help pages > > b) having a nice hardcopy (latex?) representation > > Anything Ewan?? As you are just up the corridor, I'll give some > thought to my prize for suggesting the following: > [snip] aaahhhh.... and it is so easy! ;) but - glad to hear that Thure - as usual - has already thought of the problem and has a solution (a general solution?) in hand I close with my normal SRS mantra - lets have a clean perl-XS port - lets have a clean client-server implementation - documentation for idiots wanted Ewan Birney http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/birney/ From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sun Jun 07 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!193.174.75.110!news-was.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news.gwdg.de!not-for-mail From: Arne Mueller Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 01:55:22 +0000 Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Lines: 28 Message-ID: <357B448A.E1FD8CE7@gwdg.de> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: roko28.stud.uni-goettingen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) Chris Upton wrote: > > Hi, > Could someone point me to a straight forward user guide for SRS? > > Thanks, > Chris Upton Hi, did you allreday look at http://www.expasy.ch/srs5/man/srsman.html ? greetings, Arne -- Arne Mueller Institut fuer Mikrobiologie und Genetik Abt. Molekulare Genetik und Praeparative Molekularbiologie Universitaet Goettingen Grisebachstr. 8 37077 Goettingen Germany phone: +49-551-399654 | fax : +49-551-393805 email: amuelle3@gwdg.de | http://www.img.bio.uni-goettingen.de From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Jun 08 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!feed2.news.erols.com!erols!newsfeed.internetmci.com!141.211.144.13!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!oleane!jussieu.fr!infobiogen.fr!newsmaster From: Jean-Marc Plaza Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Features in genbank or Embl Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 11:47:24 +0200 Organization: INFOBIOGEN Lines: 41 Message-ID: <357D04AC.9686CE39@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 4.05 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) Hello ! I found an error message in severals SRS Sites about CDS and map_peptide features in GenbanK or EMBL. It concerns the "join " function which contains accession number. For instance in embl-id:HSINSR24 the feature mat_peptide or CDS shows the warning !!!Wrong location definition -- ID HSINSR24_3; parent: HSINSR24 AC M32972; FT mat_peptide join(M23100:1905..1923,M32823:174..725,M32824:114..435, FT M32825:318..466,M32826:188..332,M32827:189..403, FT M32828:277..403,M32829:124..374,M32830:106..273, FT M32831:187..388,M32832:123..158,M32833:161..435, FT M32834:93..232,M32835:85..244,M32836:92..194, FT M32837:261..328,M32838:136..380,M32839:117..227, FT M32840:45..204,M32841:115..244,M32842:101..235,83..434) FT /codon_start=1 FT /note="G00-119-352" FT /gene="INSR" FT /map="19p13.3-p13.2" FT /product="insulin receptor" !!!Wrong location definition Thanks in advance for your help -- --------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 11 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.UVic.CA!not-for-mail From: Chris Upton Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: user guide Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:04:04 -0700 Organization: University of Victoria Lines: 23 Message-ID: <35807074.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> References: <35759399.41C6@athena.bioc.uvic.ca> <357B448A.E1FD8CE7@gwdg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.bioc.uvic.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01SGoldC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32) Arne Mueller wrote: > > Chris Upton wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Could someone point me to a straight forward user guide for SRS? > > did you allreday look at http://www.expasy.ch/srs5/man/srsman.html ? > > greetings, > > Arne > > -- > Arne Mueller Thanks... I did ask for straightforward though!! :-) But, I went back to it and did find not quite as obscure second time around. Chris From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Jun 11 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.imp.ch!imp.ch!news.core.genedata.com!157.161.173.196 From: Tim Eyres Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Bug: Multiple database selection Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:28:24 +0200 Organization: Improware Network Services, Switzerland Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3580E6A8.754F@genedata.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mentolat-e0.core.genedata.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (WinNT; I) Hi all Can anyone help me with a bug in SRS? Please follow these steps on an SRS server. 1. Select a large set of databases from the Top Page of SRS, say over 30. (this may not always be neccesary, the bug does sometimes occur with less databases) 2. Press the Continue button 3. Press the Alternative Query form so that you have the version 5 query form 4. Click the ID link on the left hand side and you'll find it returns a blank page instead of details about ID Can anyone help? I know this error occurs on the EBI SRS server if you selects the first 36 Databases. Tim Eyres From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sat Jun 13 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!CENPOK.NET!hrniu From: hrniu@CENPOK.NET (Niu Haoru) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: looking for a software comparing restriction map of a unknown cDNA with that of genes oin databases Date: 13 Jun 1998 22:21:58 -0700 Organization: Beijing Medical University Lines: 13 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <3584302A.3C7A@cenpok.net> Reply-To: hrniu@cenpok.net NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear: I am cloning a gene,I want to eliminate known genes by enzyme cleavage. Does anyone know of a software or a database with which I can compare the restriction map of the cDNA on hand with that of the genes in cDNA databases? Thanks in advance. NHR From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sun Jun 14 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!newsfeed.concentric.net!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!barba.uci.kun.nl!sci.kun.nl!caos.kun.nl!root From: "K. Cuelenaere" Subject: Re: Bug: Multiple database selection Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <35851E6F.52BF@caos.kun.nl> Sender: root@caos.kun.nl (System PRIVILEGED Account) NNTP-Posting-Host: cammsg11.caos.kun.nl Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: koenc@caos.kun.nl Organization: CAOS/CAMM Center References: <3580E6A8.754F@genedata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:15:27 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Lines: 39 Tim Eyres wrote: > 4. Click the ID link on the left hand side and you'll find it returns a > blank page instead of details about ID we too get the blank page. It's because wgetz core-dumps (there's a core file in the tmp dir). The core file says it's because of the following code: void LibGroupAddDb (LIBvGroup group, SLBo *lib) { group->library[group->libraryN++] = lib; <----- } The LIBvGroup (=~ SRSoGROUP) type is defined in (library.h and) srs5.h: typedef struct SRSoGROUP { . . struct SLBo *library[50]; /* Pointers to the libraries in the group */ . . } So I would only have expected problems when selecting 51 libraries or more simultaneously (==in one group)... Simply changing the 50 to 100 didn't work with me. Regards, Koen. -------------------------------------------------------------- Koen Cuelenaere Email: koenc@caos.kun.nl CAOS/CAMM Center Phone: +31 24 3653383 University of Nijmegen Fax: +31 24 3652977 Toernooiveld 6525 ED Nijmegen The Netherlands URL: http://www.caos.kun.nl/ -------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sun Jun 14 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!MSN.COM!waubeu52 From: waubeu52@MSN.COM (MN1) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Earn $100 every time OUR phone rings...test Date: 14 Jun 1998 21:02:33 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199806151685BAA15151@post.msn.com> Reply-To: marketn@msn.com NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Testing...� From owner-srs@net.bio.net Sun Jun 14 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.idt.net!nntp2.cerf.net!nntp3.cerf.net!news.msi.com!uucp From: Maurice Manning <"mmm"@mica,msi.com> Subject: hypens in queries X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 146.202.25.29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: Sender: uucp@msi.com Reply-To: mmm@msi.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MSI Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:48:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Disclaimer: _ Unless stated otherwise, everything in this message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of Molecular Simulations Inc. Lines: 23 Hello, does anyone know if SRS has a problem with hypens in query strings? have had trouble with M-cadherin and beta-lactamase, are these parsed as seperate words? any info would be great, thanks. Maurice -- Maurice Manning Molecular Simulations, Inc. mmanning@msi.com 9685 Scranton Road (619) 799 - 5316 San Diego, Ca 92121-3752 Web: http://www.msi.com -disclaimer- unless stated otherwise, everything in the above message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of molecular simulations inc. From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Jun 15 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.imp.ch!imp.ch!news.core.genedata.com!157.161.173.196 From: Tim Eyres Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: hypens in queries Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:36:11 +0200 Organization: Improware Network Services, Switzerland Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3586206B.5C33@genedata.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mentolat-e0.core.genedata.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (WinNT; I) Maurice Manning wrote: > > Hello, > does anyone know if SRS has a problem with hyphens in query strings? > > have had trouble with M-cadherin and beta-lactamase, are these parsed as > seperate words? > What database are these in? You probably need to look at the .is file for the database to figure out what it is doing with the hyphens. Or are these databases names? Tim From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 16 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!202.44.200.8!news.inet.co.th!news.nectec.or.th!news.asiaaccess.net.th!locker From: "kieatkamjohn" Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: WE WANT TO SELL IT FOR YOU Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:08:10 +0700 Organization: an AsiaAccess (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <6m7fgt$87k@bkk1.asiaaccess.net.th> NNTP-Posting-Host: us6_202.asiaaccess.net.th X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 We are company bases in Thailand want to be sole agent or dealer for any kind of product. Please e-mail us your products and condition. We will sell it for you. SNK CO., LTD. From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 16 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-ge.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!barba.uci.kun.nl!sci.kun.nl!caos.kun.nl!root From: "K. Cuelenaere" Subject: Re: hypens in queries Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <35876FE0.2781@caos.kun.nl> Sender: root@caos.kun.nl (System PRIVILEGED Account) NNTP-Posting-Host: cammsg11.caos.kun.nl Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CAOS/CAMM Center References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 07:27:28 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Lines: 40 Maurice Manning wrote: > > Hello, > does anyone know if SRS has a problem with hypens in query strings? > > have had trouble with M-cadherin and beta-lactamase, are these parsed as > seperate words? > > any info would be great, thanks. > Maurice > > -- > Maurice Manning Molecular Simulations, > Inc. > mmanning@msi.com 9685 Scranton Road > (619) 799 - 5316 San Diego, Ca > 92121-3752 > Web: > http://www.msi.com > > > -disclaimer- > unless stated otherwise, everything in the above message is personal opinion > and nothing in it is an official statement of molecular simulations inc. Did you try a wildcard in front of the words your looking for? like: *cadherin and *lactamase? Better do this in the description field only first because the search take longer this way. 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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. From owner-srs@net.bio.net Thu Jun 18 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.225!attworldnet!newsadm From: "John La Fleur" Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: MAS90 Software Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:42:02 -0700 Organization: Consolidated Management Solutions Inc. Lines: 5 Message-ID: <6mebc1$18j@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.116.142 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Authorized MAS90 software www.comsinc.com From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Jun 22 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!FHCRC.ORG!tcolbert From: tcolbert@FHCRC.ORG (Trent Colbert) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Using Perl's LWP to access SRS? Date: 23 Jun 1998 15:59:15 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 7 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <35903363.21AD@fhcrc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am trying to do automated searches via the LWP perl module. I have sent off a request using the POST method and the required key value pairs plus the text I am searching for and its key. I recieve the error message: "arguments missing". Must I submit values to SRS in a particular order. Are there any FAQs on ways to access SRS other than through a browser? Does anyone have a Perl script with queries SRS that they would be willing to send me? Thanks for reading. Trent From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 23 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!newsfeed.concentric.net!netnews.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Using Java to access SRS (Re: Using Perls's LWP ...) Date: 24 Jun 1998 05:22:56 GMT Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 144 Message-ID: <6mq2fg$mba$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> References: <35903363.21AD@fhcrc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: chipmunk.bio.indiana.edu I perfer Java now for many things that once were Perl-ish, including Internet uses. Java has standard Internet classes that make fetching data from network servers pretty simple. You may want to try this example for querying SRS servers. -- Don // FetchFromSRS.java // d.gilbert, jun'98 - simple java command-line app to fetch from srs server // // to use from a unix command-line // javac FetchFromSRS.java // java FetchFromSRS 'esterase&drosophila' > srs.html; lynx srs.html // java FetchFromSRS host=srs.ebi.ac.uk:5000 lib=embl lib=emblnew field=all 'melanogaster&esterase' > emblsrs.html import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import java.net.*; class UsageException extends Exception {} public class FetchFromSRS { public final static int v5= 0, v4 = 1; public static int gSRSversion = v5; public static String gHost = "iubio.bio.indiana.edu", gLibs = "genbank genbanknew gbest", gField = "all", gOptions= "+-f+des", // describe entries gQuery = "esterase*"; public static String gPath[]= { "/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz", "/srs/srsc" }; String outname, libs; public static void main(String args[]) { FetchFromSRS fsrs= new FetchFromSRS(); try { fsrs.run(args); } catch (UsageException e) {} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public FetchFromSRS() {} public void run(String args[]) throws Exception { readArgs(args); String url= "http://" + gHost + gPath[gSRSversion] ; PrintStream pr= System.out; if (outname!=null) try { pr= new PrintStream( new FileOutputStream(outname)); } catch (IOException e) {} // make sure output html contains base url pr.println(""); fetchFromUrl( pr, url + getQuery()); } void readArgs(String[] args) throws Exception { if (args==null || args.length==0) usage(); for (int i=0; i0) argval= arg.substring(at+1); else argval= null; if (arg.startsWith("out=")) outname= argval; else if (arg.startsWith("host=")) gHost = argval; else if (arg.startsWith("vers=")) { if (argval.indexOf('4')>0) gSRSversion= v4; else gSRSversion= v5; } else if (arg.startsWith("field=")) gField= argval; else if (arg.startsWith("lib=")) libs = (libs==null) ? argval : libs + " " + argval; else if (arg.startsWith("opts=")) gOptions= argval; else if (argval==null) gQuery= arg; // assume if no = then a query else usage(); } } public void usage() throws UsageException { System.out.println( this.getClass().getName() + " [arguments] query-term "); System.out.println("arguments:"); System.out.println( " host=SRSserver[:port], default=" + gHost); System.out.println( " lib=data-library, default=" + gLibs); System.out.println( " field=data-field, default=" + gField); System.out.println( " opts=srs-options, default=" + gOptions); System.out.println( " vers=5 or 4 (srs server version)"); System.out.println( " out=output.file"); throw new UsageException(); } protected void fetchFromUrl(PrintStream pr, String url) { try { DataInputStream din= new DataInputStream(new URL(url).openStream()); String s= din.readLine(); while (s!=null) { // process input line ... pr.println(s); s= din.readLine(); } } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("fetchFromUrl err: " + e.getMessage()); } } protected String getQuery() { String q; if (gQuery.indexOf(']')>0) q= gQuery; else { if (libs==null) libs= gLibs; q= "[" + encodeLibs(libs) + "-" + gField + ":" + gQuery + "]"; } q= URLEncoder.encode(q); // add any SRS options... q += gOptions; // describe the entries return "?" + q; } protected String encodeLibs(String libs) { // convert more than one lib to this messy form to run the hurdles of // netscrape->httpd->unix-cmdline->wgetz // libs={genbank_SP_genbanknew_SP_gbest} String elibs= null; StringTokenizer st= new StringTokenizer(libs, " "); int nlib= st.countTokens(); for (int i=0; i< nlib; i++) { if (elibs==null) elibs= st.nextToken(); else elibs += "_SP_" + st.nextToken(); // hidden SRS syntax for a space } if (nlib>1) elibs = "libs={" + elibs + "}"; return elibs; } } -- -- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana-u--bloomington-in-47405 -- gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 23 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!la-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!ais.net!jamie!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Re: Using Perl's LWP to access SRS? Date: 24 Jun 1998 01:20:00 GMT Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 22 Message-ID: <6mpk80$kum$1@jetsam.uits.indiana.edu> References: <35903363.21AD@fhcrc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: chipmunk.bio.indiana.edu You may have better success with GET instead of POST, if you suitably url-encode the somewhat messy url's that can result: http://srs.ebi.ac.uk:5000/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?[libs%3D%7Bembl_SP_emblnew%7D-all:esterase*]+-e For instance this pulls all the reports from two libraries for a term using the -all field. You can also use compound queries, joining [term]&[term]. Knowing the 'getz' syntax for srs will help. Knowing that _SP_ is a hidden SRS key for joining library names will help. It is not hard to hack together a simpler interface that wgetz for automated queries, if you are running your own SRS server. IUBio has one such (see the iubio.bio.indiana.edu/Genbank section). - don -- -- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana-u--bloomington-in-47405 -- gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu From owner-srs@net.bio.net Wed Jun 24 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!digex!newsreader.digex.net!not-for-mail From: "Custom Computers" Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Windows 98 OEM Lines: 9 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Message-ID: <3591dbcd.0@newport> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:50:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: newport.clis.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:50:14 EDT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. - Beltsville, MD - http://www.digex.net Windows 98 OEM Bid on it or buy it from here.. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=18450301 Charles From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Jun 29 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Path: biosci!agate!logbridge.uoregon.edu!europa.clark.net!206.229.87.25!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-backup-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!134.24.92.50!nntp2.cerf.net!nntp3.cerf.net!news.msi.com!uucp From: Maurice Manning Subject: Sequence_Simple - type view for structure DBs X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 146.202.25.29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <35992247.7FF1F8A1@mica.msi.com> Sender: uucp@msi.com Reply-To: mmm@msi.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MSI Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:37:11 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Disclaimer: _ Unless stated otherwise, everything in this message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of Molecular Simulations Inc. Lines: 16 hi folks, does anyone know of a view that gives a short description of an entry in a structure database similar to the one that is returned by SequenceSimple? what i am looking for is a quesry to return something like: %getz '[PDB-id:1a*]' -view SeqienceSimpleForStruct id description id description -disclaimer- unless stated otherwise, everything in the above message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of molecular simulations inc. From owner-srs@net.bio.net Mon Jun 29 23:00:00 1998 Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.wli.net!peerfeed.ncal.verio.net!nntp2.cerf.net!nntp3.cerf.net!news.msi.com!uucp From: Maurice Manning Subject: SequenceSimple-type view for structure DBs X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 146.202.25.29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3599228D.B15C00B3@mica.msi.com> Sender: uucp@msi.com Reply-To: mmm@msi.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MSI Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:38:21 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Disclaimer: _ Unless stated otherwise, everything in this message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of Molecular Simulations Inc. Lines: 24 hi folks, does anyone know of a view that gives a short description of an entry in a structure database similar to the one that is returned by SequenceSimple? what i am looking for is a query to return something like: %getz '[PDB-id:1a*]' -view SeqienceSimpleForStruct id description id description id description id description id description. and so on. any ideas would be great! Maurice -disclaimer- unless stated otherwise, everything in the above message is personal opinion and nothing in it is an official statement of molecular simulations inc. From owner-srs@net.bio.net Tue Jun 30 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.dejanews.com!nnrp2.dejanews.com!not-for-mail From: bshomer@curagen.com Newsgroups: bionet.software.srs Subject: Problem to index multiple files Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 18:30:52 GMT Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion Lines: 24 Message-ID: <6ndv8s$d9h$1@nnrp2.dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.183.38.101 X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jul 01 18:30:52 1998 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Dear friends, I'm experiencing a strange problem trying to index multiple source files with a wildcard (e.g. PDB). When specified in the FileType function call: searchName:'pdb*.ent.Z' SRS simply ignores all the files in the directory and fails to read any file. I tried it with several setups/searchName combinations, to no avail. Does anyone have a clue as for this strange behaviour? I'm running SRS version 5.1.0 Thanks in advance, Benny. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum