From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 01 22:00:00 1994
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From: Kah-Tong, Seow
Subject: [Q] 3D homology modelling on WWW?
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 2 Nov 1994 07:28:11 GMT ]

Does anyone know if there is any WWW site to access program for either 3D
homology modelling program or program which allow a search of PDB database
for 3D homology to a query 3D protein. Thanks in advance.

Kah-Tong, Seow
West East Centre
Univ of British Columbia
Vancouver
seow@unixg.ubc.ca



From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 02 22:00:00 1994
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From: Rick Westerman <westerman@biochem.purdue.edu>
Subject: [Q] GCG replacement page?
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While we all know about the limitations of HTML that make it less than useful 
for doing real sequence analysis work - e.g., it doesn't support file 
transfer - it would seem interesting to generate a "GCG replacement page".
In other words a page that lists all of the GCG programs and the network
replacement for each program, if such a replacement exists.

I haven't seen such a page so far but would like to know before I create
one myself if anyone has such a page.

Thanks.

BTW: This is my first posting using the NetScape Mosaic newsreader. It will
be interesting to see how it comes out.




From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 02 22:00:00 1994
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From: Clemens Vonrhein
Subject: RE: [Q]3D homology modelling on WWW?
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 2 Nov 1994 14:57:59 GMT ]

In article <seow-021194002953@port53.annex4.net.ubc.ca>, seow@unixg.ubc.ca (Kah-Tong, Seow) writes:
|> Does anyone know if there is any WWW site to access program for either 3D
|> homology modelling program or program which allow a search of PDB database
|> for 3D homology to a query 3D protein. Thanks in advance.
There is something like swiss-model at http://expasy.hcuge.csh.

Clemens
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From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 02 22:00:00 1994
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From: "Ron D. Appel" <appel@cih.hcuge.ch>
Subject: EXPASY - NEWS (November, 1994)
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The ExPASy World Wide Web (WWW) molecular biology server in
Geneva is dedicated to the analysis of protein and nucleic acid
sequences as well as 2-D PAGE. It is being constantly improved and
upgraded. Since its beginning in August 1993, many new databases
have been added, as well as tools and software packages. This work is
the result of the collaboration between the University Hospital of
Geneva (Denis Hochstrasser, Jean-Charles Sanchez, Elisabeth
Gasteiger, Ron Appel and collaborators), the Medical Biochemistry
Department of Geneva University (Amos Bairoch) and the Glaxo
Research Center, Geneva (Manual Peitsch). 

Here are the main databases and tols accessible on the ExPASy server
(http://expasy.hcuge.ch/):

1 Databases:
============

 o SWISS-PROT - Protein Sequence Database (with pointers to
   SWISS-2DPAGE, PROSITE, SEQANALREF, ENZYME,
   REBASE, EMBL, GenBank, PDB, FlyBase, GCRDb,
   MaizeDB, Medline and OMIM)
 o PROSITE - Dictonary of protein sites and patterns 
 o SWISS-2DPAGE - Two-dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel
   Electrophoresis Database 
 o SWISS-3DIMAGE - Images of crystallized proteins 
 o ENZYME - The Enzyme Data Bank 
 o SEQANALREF - Sequence Analysis Bibliographic Reference
   Data Bank 

2 Tools:
========

 o Swiss-Shop - a sequence allerting system for Swiss-Prot that
   allows you to automatically obtain new sequence entries
   relevant to your field(s) of interest.
 o Swiss-Model - an Automated Knowledge-Based Protein
   Modelling Server. 
 o Amino Acid Composition 
    o by AA composition - Identify a protein by its amino
      acid composition. 
    o from a SWISS-PROT entry - Compare the amino acid
      composition of a SWISS-PROT entry with all other
      SWISS-PROT entries. 
 o GuessProt - Get the SWISS-PROT proteins closest to a given
   pI and Mw. 
 o Compute pI/Mw - Compute the theoretical pI and Mw from a
   SWISS-PROT ID or AC, or for a given sequence. 
 o BLAST - NCBI's Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. (at
   NCBI)
 o BLITZ - EBI's ultra-fast protein database searches using
   MPsearch. (at EMBL)
 o PROSITE - Scan a sequence against PROSITE. (at EMBL)


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From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 02 22:00:00 1994
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From: Arne Elofsson
Subject: RE: [Q]3D homology modelling on WWW?
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 3 Nov 1994 01:24:21 GMT ]


Some of my favourites:
Gopher server at Stanford
gopher://genome-gopher.stanford.edu/11/topic/structural

and of course:
The NIH Molecular Modeling Home Page

http://www.nih.gov/molecular_modeling/mmhome.html

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From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Nov 03 22:00:00 1994
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From: doelz (Reinhard Doelz)
Subject: Re: [Q] XXX replacement page?
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Rick Westerman (westerman@biochem.purdue.edu) wrote:
: transfer - it would seem interesting to generate a "XXX replacement page".
: In other words a page that lists all of the XXX programs and the network
: replacement for each program, if such a replacement exists.

I would like to point out that there are 'algorithms' and 'packages'. 
Whereas for some algorithms it makes sense to have network access, some 
programs will be better run on the local site or on a (larger) server. 
In particular, data processing will be better placed on a command line 
or suitable GUI which is _different_ from W3. I would argue that the 
term 'XXX replacement', for this reason, might be misleading and yield 
the impression that we (i.e. W3 user community) can actually substitute 
whole packages, which is clearly not the issue. Rather, we need to 
point out _useful_ complementary services instead of 'competing' 
established infrastructure. 

: I haven't seen such a page so far but would like to know before I create
: one myself if anyone has such a page.

May I suggest to ask Keith Robison as he has a quite substantial list 
at http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages.html - the more lists and digests we 
prepare the more useless the resource will be for the everyday biology user.
Resource discovery is fine, but resource discovery of resources is worse. 
You might also try to look at Pedro's page announced in this group recently 
(read http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/pedro.html for reference, 
but use the US page as the CH page as repeatedly been reported to be un-
reachable - there is also a german mirror available in the meantime).

: BTW: This is my first posting using the NetScape Mosaic newsreader. It will
: be interesting to see how it comes out.

No problems with the news posting. We have been using this (announced to be 
commercialized) product and are happy with respect to its abilities. However,
the new features of this browser are not yet adopted by the other W3 clients.
Remember the 'TurboGopher' which was the first program to speak gopher+ and 
used ASK blocks? Hopefully we will be able to avoid prolifereation in a 
similar scenery of W3. 

Regards
Reinhard 


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From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Nov 03 22:00:00 1994
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From: GDB User Support
Subject: GDB on WWW has links to GSDB sequence data
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.gdb ]
[ Posted on Thu, 3 Nov 1994 16:35:40 GMT ]


The URL for the Genome Data Base - Home Page is  http://gdbwww.gdb.org/
where you will find the GDB Browser and other resources.

We apologize for omitting this information from the original posting.

	GDB User Support
	Genome Data Base
	Johns Hopkins University
	
	help@gdb.org


In article 0311940928070001@morpheus.lif.icnet.uk, mike@bison.lif.icnet.uk (Mike Mitchell) writes:
> In article <1994Oct28.144051.2182@news.gdb.org>, bionet.molbio.gdb wrote:
> 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >         GDB Browser on WWW includes links to sequence data at GSDB
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> - and then some details -
> 
> Would it be to much to ask for the URL of this WWW server to posted. It's
> great to read about what the server can do for you, but if no access details
> are given it is somewhat frustrating :-)
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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: eggenber (Florian Eggenberger)
Subject: WWW Introduction: Parts 9 and 10
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WWW INTRODUCTION        November 1994
================

PART 9: Installing NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh
------------------------------------------------

This is the ninth part of a series of postings describing the concept of 
the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in obtaining and 
setting up the software required to access the Web.

NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh provides a WWW interface for the Macintosh 
running System 7.x/MacTCP 2.0.2 (or later). The files required to run NCSA 
Mosaic on your Mac can be retrieved by anonymous FTP from sites including 
(it is quite likely that this may change over time):

IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY NETWORK TRAFFIC, PLEASE RETRIEVE THE FILES 
FROM A HOST CLOSE TO YOUR LOCATION.

EUROPEAN SITES

Host: ftp.mi.cnr.it
    Location: /pub/Mac/Mosaic
      File: NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx
Host: ftp.germany.eu.net
    Location: /pub/infosystems/www/ncsa/Web/Mosaic/Mac
      File: NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx
Host: ftp.switch.ch
    Location: /mirror/Mosaic/Mac
      File: NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx

US SITES

Host: ftp.ncsa.uiuc
    Location: /Mosaic/Mac
      File: NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx
Host: gatekeeper.dec.com
    Location: /.3/net/infosys/Mac-Mosaic
      File: NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx
Host: hub.ucsb.edu
    Location: /pub/networking/mac
      File: binhex.macbinary

To get a complete list of sites providing these files, use "Archie" (ask a 
local expert).

Obtaining the software:
1) check what software is required to run NCSA Mosaic on your Mac:
   if a program to convert files in BinHex format is already installed:
     "NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx" (*** stands for the CPU type of your Mac)
   otherwise: "NCSAMosaic200A8.***.hqx" and "binhex.macbinary"
2) open an FTP session with the appropriate host (see above)
3) enter "anonymous" as username and your email address as password
4) change to the appropriate location (see above)
5) select "ascii" (or equivalent) to download text files or files in
   BinHex format (indicated by the file suffix "hqx") otherwise select
   "binary" (or equivalent)
6) load the file to your disk
7) disconnect from the host and close the FTP session

Installing NCSA Mosaic:
1) decode the downloaded file using the program "BinHex 4.0" or equivalent
   (file transfer programs like "Fetch" include conversion from BinHex)
2) double-click the de-binhexed file if it is a self-extracting archive
   (indicated by the file suffix "sea").

That's it, double-click the icon "NCSA Mosaic***". Customization tips will 
be given in part 17 of this series of postings.


Florian Eggenberger
EMBnet Switzerland



WWW INTRODUCTION        November 1994
================

PART 10: Installing DosLynx for MS-DOS
--------------------------------------

This is the tenth part of a series of postings describing the concept of 
the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in obtaining and 
setting up the software required to access the Web.

DosLynx is a WWW interface especially suited for IBM compatible "low-end" 
PCs. The program is text-based but allows the viewing of GIF images. 
DosLynx runs directly over a Packet driver (or emulation) and requires at 
least an 8086 CPU, MS-DOS 3.0 and 512K free RAM. The files you need to run 
DosLynx on your machine can be retrieved by anonymous FTP from sites 
including (it is quite likely that this may change over time):

IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY NETWORK TRAFFIC, PLEASE RETRIEVE THE FILES 
FROM A HOST CLOSE TO YOUR LOCATION.

EUROPEAN SITES

Host: ftp.funet.fi
    Location: /pub/networking/services/www/lynx/doslynx
      File: DLX0_8A.EXE
Host: ftp.sunet.se
    Location: /pub/pc/www/DosLynx
      File: DLX0_8A.EXE
Host: ftp.hrz.uni-kassel.de
    Location: /pub/net/www/dos
      File: DLX0_8A.EXE
Host: ftp.germany.eu.net
    Location: /pub/comp/msdos/mirror.garbo/connect
      File: pktd11.zip
Host: ftp.switch.ch
    Location: /mirror/msdos/pktdrvr
      File: pktd11.zip

US SITES

Host: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu
    Location: /pup/WWW/DosLynx/
      File: DLX0_8A.EXE
Host: ftp.isri.unlv.edu
    Location: /pub/mirror/infosystems/WWW/clients/DosLynx
      File: DLX0_8A.EXE
Host: pc.usl.edu
    Location: /pub/packet_drivers
      File: pktd11.zip

To get a complete list of sites providing these files, use "Archie" (ask a 
local expert).

Obtaining and installing the software:
1) check what software is required to run DosLynx on your PC:
   if a Packet driver (or emulation) is already installed: "DLX0_8A.EXE"
   otherwise: "DLX0_8A.EXE" and "pktd11.zip"
2) open an FTP session with the appropriate host (see above)
3) enter "anonymous" as username and your email address as password
4) type "cd " followed by the appropriate location (see above)
5) type "ls" and check whether the required files are present
6) type "binary"
7) type "get" followed by appropriate filename, this will load the
   file to your local disk and may take some time
8) type "bye"
9) install the software on your machine:

Installing a Crynwr Packet driver:
1) unpack the archive "pktd11.zip" using "pkunzip"
2) see the instructions included in the file "install.doc" for specific
   information on how to install a Packet driver for your network board
3) add a line to the file "autoexec.bat" that will load the Packet driver,
   e.g. for a 3Com EtherLink III adapter installed at I/O base 300 hex:
   c:\network\3c509\3c5x9pd -w 0x60 IOBASE=0x300
4) reboot and check whether the driver loads successfully
5) if the driver does not load, then try another interrupt
   e.g. for an EtherLink III adapter installed at I/O base 300 hex:
   c:\network\3c509\3c5x9pd -w 0x7e IOBASE=0x300

Installing DosLynx:
The following steps assume that you know:
(i) your Internet IP address and network mask
(ii) the IP addresses of name server and local gateway
1) create a directory, copy "DLX0_8A.EXE" into this directory and unpack
   the self-extracting archive (type "dlx0_8a.exe", press <RETURN>)
2) modify the configuration file "doslynx.cfg" using a text-editor,
3) unload any TCP/IP stack already loaded
4) run "doslynx.exe"
5) if you do not get connected to the Web then try another Packet driver
   interrupt (see above)

That's it, go ahead and surf the Web.


Florian Eggenberger
EMBnet Switzerland


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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: Peter Kulmburg
Subject: [Q] HTML-Editors?
Message-ID: <1994Nov7.071116.22816@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 4 Nov 1994 16:08:52 -0000 ]

Dear collegues,

I will have to write documents for homepages on www-servers. I am working
on a Mac and I am interested in html-editors. I know that they exist but I
do not know what exactly they do and, more important, I do not know where
to find one on the net.

Could you please help me with some hints? Thank you very much!

Yours           Peter

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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: Author was Daniel M. Cabirac
Subject: Ag Biotech WWW/Gopher Server!
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.general ]
[ Posted on 5 Nov 1994 18:13:15 GMT ]

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                   Biotechnology WWW sites and Gophers.


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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: jhart@abacus.bates.edu (Jim Hart)
Subject: Re: Mosaic w/o IP address
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In article <38jhu4$oee@news.tamu.edu> Ranjan Muttiah, muttiah@tamu.edu
writes:
>Is it possible to set up mosaic without having an internet connection.
>I wish to use mosaic as stand alone hyper media (dos/unix/or mac doesn't
>matter which).

Sure.  Just bypass the error messages when you start up, then reconfigure 
the home page to be an HTML on your hard drive.


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: jyim@uclink.berkeley.edu (Jean Yim)
Subject: [Q] A really good rtftohtml converter?
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Hi!

Does anyone know of a really really good rtf to html converter be it
commercial or otherwise?  I've tried rtftohtml and it doesn't seem to work
very well.

Thanks!
Jean Yim
jyim@uclink.Berkeley.EDU


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: Damian M Bierman <db8f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: [Q] Can't Run Mosaic
Message-ID: <IiieFrO00WBME7H3VF@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Hey all,

I'm having a most annoying problem.  Every time I try to run Mosaic
(either v 1.08 or v. 2.0a8) on my Macintosh Centris 650, it shows the
window, and then up where it shows the status, it says "unable to
connect to remote host"  This is most perplexing to me, for a friend of
mine up the hall has the SAME computer, with the SAME network set up,
and he has no problem running Mosaic whatsoever! 

Is there a possible configuration problem somewhere?  I would appreciate
any input anyone has to offer.  

Thanks, Damian


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: Mike Chipperfield
Subject: New Resource Page on GDB WWW server
Message-ID: <1994Nov5.165755.29798@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.gdb ]
[ Posted on Fri, 4 Nov 1994 22:35:50 GMT ]

		Addition to the GDB WWW Home Page

	A new WWW page has been created and linked to the GDB Home page. This 
page is called called "Human Genome Project Resources and Meetings".  It is, 
as the name would suggest, a compilation of many useful links to other 
servers containing genome-mapping information. These will include links to
human genome centers, human chromosome-specific servers and model organism
genome projects, as well as to GDB and OMIM related pages.

	To access this new resource, open the URL of the GDB Home Page:
(http://gdbwww.gdb.org/), and click on "Human Genome Project Resources and
Meetings", or you can access the document directly through its URL:

	http://gdbwww.gdb.org/gdbdoc/genomic_links.html


Michael A. Chipperfield
DNA Data Coordinator
Genome Data Base



From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 06 22:00:00 1994
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From: Bill Schmidt
Subject: Gopher/WWW Servers Announcement
Message-ID: <1994Nov5.164148.29610@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.general ]
[ Posted on 4 Nov 1994 20:51:35 GMT ]



The BioMolecular Engineering Research Center  &  Molecular Biology
Computer Research Resource  at Boston University (collectively
referred to here as BMERC) announces the availability of its  Gopher  
and  World Wide Web (WWW)  servers.



   *  The URL for the BMERC WWW server Home Page is:

               http://bmerc-www.bu.edu/


   *  The gopher server can be accessed at the address given immediately
      below.  NOTE that the gopher can be accessed BOTH through gopher 
      and through a link provided on the BMERC WWW server Home Page.

               bmerc-gopher.bu.edu


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



The BMERC research objectives are summarized immediately below, and the
tools and interfaces described below which are available through the BMERC
gopher/WWW servers either support, or result from, the Center's work.

   *  To develop statistical and other computational approaches
      which will detect syntactic and semantic patterns in DNA,
      RNA, and protein sequences.

   *  To use statistical/computational approaches to identify the
      structure, function, and regulation associated with such
      patterns.





The component tools and interfaces, described below, are in an early stage of
development.  We will continue to expand and develop these tools/interfaces
based on our own experiences with them, and by actively soliciting and 
incorporating feedback from our collaborators, user community, and beta 
test sites.




E-MAIL SERVER
-------------
An e-mail server, called the Protein Sequence Analysis (PSA) System,
is available for researchers who have amino acid sequences for
proteins of unknown structure and for which no homologous
sequences are known.  The server takes a single amino acid sequence
as input, and analyzes it to determine the probable tertiary
structural class of the protein and the probable secondary
structure for each of the residues.  The output consists of four
files which are emailed to the requestor; three postscript files
which graphically summarize the analysis, and a text file.
Instructions for accessing the server, a short description of the
calculations being performed and associated journal references are
available through the gopher/WWW servers.




PROTEIN STRUCTURE/HOMOLOG DATABASE
----------------------------------
The gopher/WWW servers provide access to ProLink, a locally-developed 
integrated database of protein structure, sequence homolog, and 
functional pattern information installed in a relational format under 
Sybase.  

The current data is derived from the Brookhaven Protein Data 
Bank (proteins of known structure), Protein Family Pattern Database 
(also known as the Plsearch Database), Enzyme Nomenclature Database, 
Protein Core Structures Database (currently under development here at 
BMERC), and includes homolog links to the BLOCKS database, GenPept, 
SWISS-PROT and Medline.  It also has indirect links to Prosite, OMIM
and GDB databases.

Currently, ProLink can be searched using the gopher/WWW SQL query
library, a set of prepackaged SQL queries.  In the near future, access
to ProLink will be greatly expanded by increasing the size of the SQL 
query library, and by implementing the WWW server's mosaic-based forms
interface.  In the latter approach, a user is able to specify a wide 
range of search parameters, thereby permitting the user to tailor a 
search to his/her specific interests.
 



SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION
---------------------
Through its FTP site, accessible through its gopher/WWW servers, BMERC 
distributes, free of charge as part of its dissemination program, software 
that it develops in meeting the objectives listed above, as well as 
non-commerical software developed by others, datafiles, and support 
information.  In particular, the PLSearch database of homologous protein family
patterns, and the associated search-and-discovery software, is
available.







Bill Schmidt

Interface Specialist
BioMolecular Engineering Research Center  (BMERC)
Boston University
36 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215  USA

(617) 353-7123
gophradm@darwin.bu.edu
wwwadmin@darwin.bu.edu



From owner-www@net.bio.net Mon Nov 07 22:00:00 1994
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From: cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Cyndi Smith)
Subject: Re: [Q] Can't Run Mosaic
Message-ID: <cyn-0711941433430001@yggdrasil.mda.uth.tmc.edu>
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In article <IiieFrO00WBME7H3VF@andrew.cmu.edu>, Damian M Bierman
<db8f+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a most annoying problem.  Every time I try to run Mosaic
> (either v 1.08 or v. 2.0a8) on my Macintosh Centris 650, it shows the
> window, and then up where it shows the status, it says "unable to
> connect to remote host"  This is most perplexing to me, for a friend of
> mine up the hall has the SAME computer, with the SAME network set up,
> and he has no problem running Mosaic whatsoever! 

> Is there a possible configuration problem somewhere?  I would appreciate
> any input anyone has to offer.  

Sounds like a MacTCP problem, maybe.  Do you have at least MacTCP 2.0.2? 
Do you have any other connection problems?  That is my best guess....

-- 
Cyndi Smith                                           Computer Programmer
Department of Biomathematics       M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
Phone: 713/794-4938                                     Fax: 713/792-4262


From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: Akira Kihara
Subject: RE: [Q] HTML-Editors?
Message-ID: <1994Nov8.175510.22342@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 8 Nov 1994 02:55:40 -0800 ]

At  4:08 PM 94.11.4 +0000, Peter Kulmburg wrote:
>
>I will have to write documents for homepages on www-servers. I am working
>on a Mac and I am interested in html-editors. I know that they exist but I
>do not know what exactly they do and, more important, I do not know where
>to find one on the net.

Ref From InfoMac #135
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 11:56:44 -0700
>From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
>Subject: [*] HTML Editor 1.0, for creating Web pages
>
>HTML Editor is a semi-WYSIWYG editor for an HTML document. HTML Editor
>requires:
>- a Macintosh SE/30, Mac II, or other Macintosh with a 68020-compatible CPU.
>- System 7 or higher.
>- at least 2 Megabytes RAM. A larger partition may be needed if you are
>running in greater
>than 16 bit color (millions of colors in the Monitors Control Panel).
>
>Features:
>- simple text editing.
>- insertion of common HTML tags through button clicks, menu selections, and
>key strokes.
>- styled text to indicate styles a browser may use when viewing a document.
>These styles can be edited.
>- undo and redo of basic tag insertion.
>- editable palette of user tags.
>- single key strokes for insertion of HTML escape codes for composed
>characters.
>- find and replace commands for text editing.
>- edit list of URLs from the current document.
>- setting of a root directory for the URL of a local file.
>- standard file dialog for constructing the URL of a local file.
>- switch to a browser such as Mosaic or MacWeb with the click of a button.
>Switching to Mosaic 2.0 or MacWeb will open a browse window for the current
>document.
>- hide tags for a quick document preview.
>- restyle complete document.
>- automatic styling of documents from other applications.
>- conversion of UNIX and DOS text files to Macintosh text.
>- conversion of non-ASCII characters from a text file or the clipboard
>to HTML escape codes for composed characters.
>
>[Archived as /info-mac/text/html-editor-10.hqx; 544K]
>
>------------------------------


              _____________________________________________
             | Akira Kihara <akihara@fujimi.hosei.ac.jp>       
             |      Laboratory of Biology, Hosei University     
             |      Fujimi 2-17, Chioyoda, Tokyo 102, JAPAN
             |
             |      FAX 81-3-3264-9368, Phone 81-3-3264-9390


From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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From: Uwe Rossbach
Subject: RE: [Q] HTML-Editors?
Message-ID: <1994Nov8.175234.22208@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 6 Nov 1994 20:53:03 GMT ]

In article <39dmak$s7m@mserv1.dl.ac.uk>, kulmburg@sun1.ukl.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Kulmburg) says:
>
>Dear collegues,
>
>I will have to write documents for homepages on www-servers. I am working
>on a Mac and I am interested in html-editors. I know that they exist but I
>do not know what exactly they do and, more important, I do not know where
>to find one on the net.
>
>Could you please help me with some hints? Thank you very much!
>
>Yours           Peter
>
>Peter KULMBURG (193.196.226.110    MacName: ktl110.ukl.uni-freiburg.de)
>home: Tel./Fax:+49 761 808439   work: Tel.:+49 761 270/7195   Fax:/7177
>
>
try the www& html developer's Jump Station at:

oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html
 
a real nice tool page.






From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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From: nrd@scrapie.med.umn.edu (Neal Dalton)
Subject: Re: [Q] A really good rtftohtml converter?
Message-ID: <CyyD4M.LKq@news.cis.umn.edu>
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Jean Yim (jyim@uclink.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a really really good rtf to html converter be it
: commercial or otherwise?  I've tried rtftohtml and it doesn't seem to work
: very well.

On ftp.cray.com is one.  I didn't really like it, but it does work.  I
bring RTF into to Word, then into FrameMaker and use fm2html.

Neal


From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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From: Martin L. Ferguson
Subject: [Q] Getting WWW/Mosaic interface to display map graphics??
Message-ID: <1994Nov8.175901.22430@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software.acedb ]
[ Posted on 7 Nov 1994 19:40:07 GMT ]

Greetings all,

I just set up a www interface to our ACeDB Aedes aegypti database.
I've noticed that when accessing AAtDB or ACeDB vi Mosaic, and looking
at a chromosome map, you see the graphic.  On the one I set up
(http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu) you only get a list of the loci on
that particular chromosome map.

My question: how do I get Mosaic to display the chromosome map
graphic?

Thanks to any and all.

/s/     Martin



From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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From: Staffan Bergh
Subject: RE: [Q] Getting WWW/Mosaic interface to display map graphics??
Message-ID: <1994Nov8.180055.22519@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software.acedb ]
[ Posted on 8 Nov 1994 08:11:23 +0100 ]

In article <39lvqn$39ca@yuma.acns.colostate.edu> Martin Ferguson
(mferguso@klab.agsci.colostate.edu) writes:

>I just set up a www interface to our ACeDB Aedes aegypti database.

Welcome to the gang, Martin!

>I've noticed that when accessing AAtDB or ACeDB vi Mosaic, and looking
>at a chromosome map, you see the graphic.  On the one I set up
>(http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu) you only get a list of the loci on
>that particular chromosome map.
>
>My question: how do I get Mosaic to display the chromosome map
>graphic?

Briefly: you need to set up GhostScript to translate the graphics into
GIF, and (possibly) set a few environmental variables. The defaults
are such that if you have GS installed in the 'right' place and do
nothing else, then you get clickable maps. My guess is that you're
missing ghostscript! It's a GNU program, available from many places.

This is described in Guy's installation instructions, at
URL: http://moulon.inra.fr/acedb_tech_eng.fr

>Thanks to any and all.
>
>/s/     Martin

/staffan

Staffan Bergh
Biochemistry, KTH, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

MycDB, The mycobacterial database -- http://kiev.physchem.kth.se/MycDB.html
AboutDB, The database about ACEDB -- http://kiev.physchem.kth.se/AboutDB.html

email: staffan@biochem.kth.se           + Don't let that horse eat that violin
phone: int+46 8 790 8758                +               cried Chagall's mother
fax: int+46 8 24 54 52                  + but he kept right on painting
                                        +             -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti


From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 08 22:00:00 1994
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Subject: [announce]: server at Dept. Expt. Therapeutics/Cancer Chemotherapy
Message-ID: <CyyF1K.8zo@acsu.buffalo.edu>
From: jwelch@acsu.buffalo.edu (John J Welch)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 15:00:56 GMT
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Distribution: usa
Organization: Roswell Park Cancer Institute	
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Announcement:  New WWW Site

Who:  The Department of Experimental Therapeutics
      at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY  USA

      included therein: 
      The Graduate Department of Molecular Pharmacology
    	and Cancer Therapeutics

What: WWW Site providing information about this department's research programs
  	and interests, specific information about departmental faculty, and
	information about the academic programs offered through this 
	department (jointly, with State Univ. NY at Buffalo).  Links to 
	topical resources (molecular biology, drug development, cancer and
	cancer therapeutics) are provided.

Why:  This site was developed to share information about our department with
	the world, to advertise our graduate program, and to facilitate 
	sharing of information with remote collaborators.

When: 	The site is in operation 24 hours/day, and is online at this time, and
	will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Where:  URL:  http://beerman.med.buffalo.edu
	(port 80)
	Physically located in the Beerman Lab, Grace Cancer Drug Center.

How:	The server is implemented on an IBM clone PC, a 486/33 with 8MRAM/12M
	swap.  The whttpd server is version 1.3, and is running under MSDOS 5.0
	Windows ver 3.1, and Trumpet WinSockets version 1A (soon to be updated
	to 2B).  For the time being, the machine is not dedicated to the server
	but is use for wordprocessing, spreadsheets etc.  So far, users have
	not experienced significant degredation of these functions due to the
	presence of the server on this machine.  Currently, there is no FTP
	access to this machine, although public files can be retrieved via
	HTTP.

Note:   This server is still being set up, and certain features are not yet
	enabled.  This project will continue to develop over the next few
	months.  Please report any comments regarding operation of the server
	to welch@sc3101.med.buffalo.edu
-- 
John J. Welch				Phone: 716-845-3233	
Roswell Park Cancer Institute		Fax:   716-845-8857
Dept. Exp. Therapeutics, GCDC233	Email: jwelch@acsu.buffalo.edu


From owner-www@net.bio.net Fri Nov 11 22:00:00 1994
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From: Karl-Friedrich Fischbach
Subject: Drosophila brain atlas
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.drosophila ]
[ Posted on 9 Nov 1994 04:13:18 -0800 ]

Dear Drosophilists,


others and myself have the idea of providing free structural data about the
nervous system of Drosophila by electronic means. A forum well suited for
this purpose seems to be the world wide web. The idea is that already
existing structural data all around the world will be crosslinked via
hypertext, thus creating an evergrowing decentralized database about the
nervous system of Drosophila.
Although the strength of the world wide web is that a common format of data
organization is not essential, some agreement on that would be extremely
helpful. Therefore, I invite all those who would like to contribute to the
atlas to send me their ideas. Any www-server homeaddress would also be
welcomed.
My own is: http://deep-thought.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/data/kff.html

You will see that so far only the idea of an atlas and few data are
implemented. More will be added soon, however.


Best regards, K.-F. Fischbach

______________________________________________________________________________

Prof. Dr. K.-F. Fischbach                       Tel.: 0761-203-2730
Institut fur Biologie III                       Fax: 0761-203-2745   
Schanzlestr.1                                   kff@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
79104 Freiburg i. Brsg.
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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
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From: doelz (Reinhard Doelz)
Subject: Re: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <1994Nov13.085513.24892@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
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Lachlan Cranswick (lachlan@dmp.csiro.au) wrote:

: I would also appreciate a discussion on
: how other people are converting existing scientific
: information and onto the WWW.  
: It is hard to see our scientists spending
: much time on this unless existing Word-Proccessor
: documents (with all the appropriate formatting 
: already present) could easily be converted into HTML.

I agree entirely. The documentation which is written in biological 
sciences will require to ba available on three media, however: 
(1) professionally printed 
(2) Word Processors for the desktop 
(3) on-line

However, there is a major catch with the 'conversion', and this 
is that you require a dedicated editor in order to be composed. 
E.g. a Wordprocessor on a PC will use a proprietary format, and a 
HTML editing is reasonably done in a specific environment which 
might not be portable. And, what happens if gobbledygook becomes 
the new format in three years? We will need to invent just another
compiler or converter. 

We have, therefore, developed a simple meta-language which allows to 
write generic format. The background paper on this is submitted. 
You might want to read http://www.ch.embnet.org/jam/int_unix/APPEND15.HTML
and have a look how we use this format in various environments; the 
http://www.ch.embnet.org/teaching/biocomputing/oct94.html page tells you 
more about the framework. 

The idea is that most scientific documentation can be easily written
in a simple format, and brushed up by a 'compiler' which makes best 
use of the format to be compiled into. Our JAM converter translates, 
currently, our JAM files in either LaTEX (for professional printing), 
RTF (for the PC/Mac environment), and HTML for W3. Ite converter comes
with or without GUI and runs on most platforms available today - look at 
ftp://bioftp.unibas.ch/archive_data/survival for details. 

Regards
Reinhard Doelz
EMBnet Switzerland 


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From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
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From: akj544@nwu.edu (Shrike)
Subject: [Q] 16 Colors only in Netscape 0.9?
Message-ID: <3a3t2t$ifh@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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I'm using Netscape 0.9 in Win 3.1 and it's only displaying 16 dithered
colors.  My system is capable of Hicolor and works fine with
Mosaic 1.3, so I don't know what the problem could be.  Does this
version of Netscape only support 16 colors?  If so, how would I
obtain a version that supports more?

Thank you, and email responses please.

Shrike


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
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From: login_name@hookup.net 
Subject: The WWW site for biological aging and the Museum of Natural History
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.ageing ]
[ Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 1994 17:10:42 GMT ]

  I maintain the WWW site for aging and on November the 9th I
recieved an E-Mail from the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The Museum plans to include the information about the site in an
upcoming news letter. I would like to ask the people who are 
doing research in the field of biological aging if they would like
to include there lab on the WWW site. People who look at the 
site will be able to see where the lab is, what type of research is 
being done, who the members of the lab are,  etc.
  A copy of the E-Mail is provided below:


Return-Path: dan@www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 94 22:35:35 -0500
From: dan <dan@www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu>
Sender: windeatr@www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu
To: sgaran@hookup.net
Subject: http://www.hookup.net/mall/aging/agesit59.html
X-Url: http://www.hookup.net/mall/aging/agesit59.html

I saw yr page after starting research for
a project i am doing with the Museum of
Natural History in NYC. I am the Managing
Editor of the Electronic Newspaper at the museum.
Our next issue(january) will have a feature
piece on Aging. The Newspaper is available
via kiosk in the Hall of Human Biology and
evolution. I just wanted to make contact at
this early stage to see if you might wish
to participate in some way...

Thanks and please feel free to email me.
dan



                        END OF LETTER
________________________________________


If you have not seen our WWW site as yet please feel 
free to use it, the address is:

http://www.hookup.net/mall/aging/agesit59.html



Please send any details about your lab to Steven A. Garan,
my E-Mail address is        sgaran@hookup.net


Best Regards




  

From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <1994Nov13.045856.13572@dmp.csiro.au>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
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Can people recommend methods to convert scientific
information and documents in various Word-processor
formats to HTML.  It would be very nice if 
images inside the document could also be converted
into gifs and embedded.  Most of our scientific
information that we would like to put on the WWW
is in Word for MS-Windows 2.0c.  It would save
much time if this could go (almost) straight to
HTML format.

Is there other software available.  I.e..,  RTF
(Rich Text Format) to HTML?

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

I would also appreciate a discussion on
how other people are converting existing scientific
information and onto the WWW.  
It is hard to see our scientists spending
much time on this unless existing Word-Proccessor
documents (with all the appropriate formatting 
already present) could easily be converted into HTML.

Thanks in advance,

Lachlan.

-- 
Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO     _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
Division of Mineral Products   /      \ tel +61 3 647 0367
339 Williamstown Rd,           \_.--._/ fax +61 3 646 3223
Port Melbourne, Australia, 3207      v                     


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www,comp.infosystems.www.misc
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From: khamer@news.seattleu.edu (Kenneth L. Hamer)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Theoretical Biophysics WWW home page
Message-ID: <3a3670$7av@bach.seattleu.edu>
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The Theoretical Biophysics group of the Beckman Institute of the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce 
the existence of its world wide web server, located at 

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu:1250/

The Theoretical Biophysics group conducts research into structural 
biology, and develops hardware and software for molecular dynamics
and visualization.  We are an interdisciplinary group, with members
coming from physics, biophysics, chemistry, and computer science.

- Ken Hamer, Webmaster 
  k-hamer@uiuc.edu



From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: kloska@mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de
Subject: RE: [Q] HTML-Editors?
Message-ID: <1994Nov10.183547.4578@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 10 Nov 94 08:59:31 +0100 ]

In article <39dmak$s7m@mserv1.dl.ac.uk>, kulmburg@sun1.ukl.uni-freiburg.de 
(Peter Kulmburg) writes:
> Dear collegues,
> 
> I will have to write documents for homepages on www-servers. I am working
> on a Mac and I am interested in html-editors. I know that they exist but I
> do not know what exactly they do and, more important, I do not know where
> to find one on the net.

  A html editor is dedicated to help you in editing html documents (guess
  what ;) ). So at least it should be able to automaticly insert the html
  style informations and  Tag's  and anchors.  If it's more sophisticated 
  it  highlights  anchores,  shows  images in  the Text and  checkes  the
  html syntax.

  There are differend approaches on the Mac. There's an (1) extension to
  the BBEdit program which I haven't tested by now.  (2)  HTML Supertext
  crashes on my system. (3)  HTML  Edit  handles the insertion of Styles
  and  links  but  still is  very rudimental.  The best stuff I've found 
  so far is HTML-Editor. It highlights links, anchors and style 
  informations. Hides them on demand and gives you a bit of an WYSIWYG
  view to vour document.

  You find it on many ftp-sites around the world, e.g:


      ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/pub/Mirror/ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mac/Related/

  the name is

     htm-editor-1.0.hqx

  (Gues the home-page is ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu but .fr is near by)


  Viel Glueck:


  Sebastion Kloska (kloska@mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de)
   










From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: Tobi Delbruck <tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu>
Subject: Molecular Neuroscience at Caltech WWW URL
Message-ID: <39tlsl$5bj@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Caltech
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 17:39:33 GMT
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The Molecular Neuroscience Program at Caltech has a home page
that describes the program and shows faculty and contact information.

The URL is 
	http://www.pcmp.caltech.edu/molecula

-tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu (I maintain the pages)


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: murase@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp (Sumio Murase)
Subject: Announce: World Congress to be held on WWW
Message-ID: <1994Nov13.073200.22117@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Mie University
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Announce: World Congress to be held on WWW

Invitation to 
" The 1st Internet World Congress on Biomedical Science '94
 in Mie University "

        On behalf of the congress it is my great pleasure to invite you to 
the 1st Internet  World Congress on Biomedical Science which will be held on 
the World Wide Web server (URL http://www.medic.mie-u.ac.jp/) 
from December 7 to 17, 1994.
        It is hoped that you will be able to participate in the WWW server 
of the Congress. If you present a poster at the Congress,  the CD-ROM of 
the proceedings of this Congress will be sent you later.
        If you wish to present a poster, please contact the Secretariat of 
the Congress (office@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp) before November 20.
               
Contact : 
office@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp
The 1st Internet  World Congress on Biomedical Science '94
in Mie University
Mie University School of Medicine
2-174 Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, 514 JAPAN

--------------------------
Sumio Murase, M.D., Ph.D.
murase@doc.medic.mie-u.ac.jp
Dept. Med.Informatics, Mie Univ. Shc. Med.


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: "R.Doelz,Biocomputing Basel;+41 61 267 22 47" <DOELZ@ubaclu.unibas.ch>
Subject: Cancer WWW resources [long]
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Dear colleagues, 
I came across some potentially useful information which is appended below. 
Regards
Reinhard Doelz




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>>> On 10 Nov 1994 17:43:43 GMT, bdelong@twain.ucs.umass.edu (B.K. DeLong) said:

> I am looking for some Cancer WWW pages. Does anyone have any good
> ones?

Below is the Cancer Online Information Sources FAQ.  Oncolink is an
excellent resource and is a WWW server.  Cancernet is also extemely
useful.  It is a gopher server, although you can use a WWW client like
Mosaic to access it.

Art

flatau@cli.com
Computational Logic, Inc.
Austin, Texas


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Last-modified: 1994/09/30
Version: 1.9

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 
                        THE  CANCER  FAQ 
 
Answer to a Frequently-Asked Question (FAQ):  What online sources of
information are available about cancer? 

Please contribute to the FAQ!  If you have a source of online information
about cancer that is NOT listed above, AND it is NOT listed within any of the
above sources (such as CancerNet), then please contact me at 
willdye@helios.unl.edu and tell me about it.  I am eager to make this list as
comprehensive and up-to-date as possible. 
 
Good luck, God bless you, and KEEP FIGHTING.  Informed, motivated patients
live longer!   
 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

---------------
|  CancerNet  |
---------------
 
CancerNet is by far the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of
information about cancer.  It is maintained by the (United States) National
Cancer Institute.  Included in this database is a well-maintained list of
other information sources, such as MEDLINE, so for most people this is THE
place to start.  Sources of information that are listed in CancerNet  
are (usually) not repeated in this FAQ.   
 
Send e-mail to:   
 
    cancernet@icicb.nci.nih.gov  
 
with no subject, and the word "help" as the message.  They will send you a
message explaining how to use the system.  They can also be reached by calling
the voice line: 1-800-4CANCER.  For those without online access, they can send
out brochures and FAX'es.   
 
CancerNet is available through voice phone, traditional mail, FAX, e-mail,
gopher, ftp, and World Wide Web.  Contact CancerNet via e-mail or voice phone
for current access instructions.   
 
 
-------------- 
|  OncoLink  | 
-------------- 
 
We would like to announce "OncoLink", a WWW-server and gopher server oriented
to CANCER. This resource is directed to physicians, health care personnel,  
social workers, patients and their supporters. 
 
THIS RESOURCE CAN BE REACHED AT: cancer.med.upenn.edu 
 
With a WWW-client (e.g. Mosaic), use:   http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/ 
With a gopher client (e.g. gopher) use: gopher cancer.med.upenn.edu 80 
 
The maintainer of this resource can be contacted at: BUHLE@XRT.UPENN.EDU 
 
--
Dr. E. Loren Buhle, Jr.  INTERNET: BUHLE@XRT.UPENN.EDU 
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine         Phone: 215-662-3084 
Rm 440A, 3401 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228   FAX: 215-349-5978 
 
 
--------------------------
|  The Virtual Hospital  |
--------------------------
 
From: sandro@lhc.nlm.nih.gov (Michael D'Alessandro, M.D.) 
Date: 16 Mar 1994 17:44:24 GMT 
 
The Virtual Hospital: A New Paradigm for Electronic Publishing in the Health
Sciences 

The Virtual Hospital (VH) is a continuously updated medical multimedia
database stored on computers and accessed through high-speed computer networks
24 hours a day.  The VH will provide invaluable patient care support and
distance learning to health science practitioners. The VH's information may be
used to answer patient care questions, thus putting the latest medical
information at practitioners' fingertips.  This same information may be used
for continuing medical education (CME); delivering CME to practitioners'
offices and homes at a convenient time and location. 
 
The VH is currently undergoing initial loading and proofing of content, and
will be fully operational in the next 6 months. In the interim, there is
already a large amount of useful medical information within it, so please stop
by and browse. The Virtual Hospital is a service of the Electric Differential
Multimedia Lab in the Department of Radiology in the University of Iowa
College of Medicine. 
 
The URL for the Virtual Hospital is: 
 
http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/ 


-------------------------------------------------
|  The Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse  |
-------------------------------------------------
(updated 20 Jun 94)

NYSERNet's Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse (BCIC) is an Internet 
accessible resource for breast cancer patients and their families. 
Information is obtained through partnership agreements with many 
organizations which provide information and services relating to 
breast cancer to the public.  Current partners represent government 
health agencies, hospitals, libraries, hospice and non-profit agencies. 
 
As the BCIC grows and evolves it will become a credible and 
comprehensive source of information for patients, survivors, advocates 
and researchers. 
 
The BCIC is accessible via gopher from NYSERNet's main menu at nysernet.org, 
or through WWW at http://nysernet.org/ 

--
Terri Damon                 NYSERNet, Inc.            (315) 453-2912 x 225 
Breast Cancer               Gopher: nysernet.org 
Information Clearinghouse   URL   :http://nysernet.org/breast/Default.html 


--------------------------------
|  Commercial online services  |
--------------------------------
 
Many online services have forums for people to discuss cancer.   
 
  CompuServe
  ----------
CompuServe's forum (GO CANCER) has many friendly people there who  
are either cancer patients or medical professionals.   

The Cancer forum on CompuServe opened in 1988.  It is a mix of  
cancer patients, friends and relatives, and medical  
professionals form all fields. 

The forum is divided into three areas.  The message base, an  
interactive bulletin board where message threads develop, and a  
great deal of information is shared.  The Libraries, where  
information in file form is stored, updated, and added to on a  
daily basis.  Included in the libraries are the latest PDQ  
files (both patient and physician versions) for the most  
"popular" cancers.  Others will be placed there on request.   
The third area is the Conference area, where online, real time  
conferences are held with up to 150 people participating.   
Often these are discussions with various expert guests. 
 
The forum is unique in that it acts as an online support group,  
information exchange vehicle, and library, all in one resource. 
 
For the cancer patient, undergoing treatments, etc. it is a  
great place for many reasons.  Often patients are unable or  
unwilling to visit a local support group because of illness,  
appearance, etc.  The forum provides that support, and is open  
for their benefit 24 hours a day, every day. 
 
  Prodigy
  -------
Prodigy is said to have a good Medical Bulletin Board, with  
several different subjects under the Cancer topic, including  
a prostate cancer group.  One person writes: "My father would have been DEAD
without Prodigy - literally. They would have gone right ahead with an
unnecessary, and possibly fatal, surgery on him had he not heard from the
supportive people at Prodigy."

  America Online
  --------------
America Online has a self-help "Living with Cancer" support group 
every Sunday night at 7pm EST.  Use the keyword HEALTH then click on 
MEDICAL HEALTH AND CHAT.  Cancer patients, survivors and their loved 
ones are all welcome. 

From: Mike Barela KittyBa@aol.com
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 16:32:31 EDT

AOL also has a member chat group "Cancer Survivors" again for patients,
survivors, loved ones, etc. Monday nights 9-11 PM EST hosted by user
JPLyons602.  Use keyword CHAT, select list rooms, available rooms, member
rooms, and search the list for "Cancer Survivors".  E-mail JPLyons602
(@aol.com) for more information.  There are a fair number of Breast Cancer &
Lymphoma survivors but many people float in and it's known as a place to kick
off your shoes and have a good chat.

  Other Online Services
  ---------------------
At the time this FAQ was updated, no one has commented on the  
quality of the cancer forums on other online services, but such  
comments would be welcome.   

  To Contact A Commercial Online Service Provider:
  ------------------------------------------------
To start an account, contact the service of your choice.  Each  
service can be contacted by voice through an 800 number.  Call  
the 800 directory service (voice) at 800-555-1212 for the 800  
number of the service you would like to try.  Most services offer  
free or reduced-cost service for the first month of use.  You  
might want to check recent computer-related magazines for  
special offers and coupons.   
 
 
--------------------
|  Gopher and WWW  |
--------------------
 
To get the most current Gopher/World Wide Web addresses of interest,  
it's best to just get on and start searching.  To help you get started,  
here's a list of servers that others have found useful.  The list may  
not be up to date, but it should provide some good starting points.   
 
If you don't know what Gopher and WWW are, look for some FAQ's in the  
new users newsgroups or the gopher/WWW newsgroups, or contact your local  
help desk or system administrator.   
 
gopher://gopher.nih.gov - Cancernet gopher  
http://www.nih.gov/ - NIH WWW server  
http://billings.nlm.nih.gov/welcome.html - National Library of Medicine 
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/ - OncoLink, from the U. of Pennsylvania 
gopher://cancer.med.upenn.edu:80 - OncoLink, via gopher 
gopher://utmdacc.uth.tmc.edu - M.D.Anderson (cancer center) 
gopher://gopher.dfci.harvard.edu - Dana-Farber (cancer center) 
gopher://bigmac.mskcc.org - Sloan-Kettering (cancer center) 
gopher://gopher.ncc.go.jp/ - National Cancer Center Tokyo 
gopher://istge.ist.unige.it - IST (Nat Inst for Cancer Research) (Italy) 
gopher://yaleinfo.yale.edu:7000/11/Biomed - Yale Medical Center  
gopher://serversun.mdv.gwdg.de/ - GWDG Goettingen  
gopher://med-gopher.stanford.edu/ - Stanford medical center  
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ - HyperDOC at US National Library of Medicine  
ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/nic/ - Health sciences resources list  
gopher://weeds.mgh.harvard.edu/ - Global Biological Information Servers  
at Harvard - also by topic.  
 
 
-----------------
|  The FDA BBS  |
-----------------
 
For information on specific drugs, you might try the FDA BBS  
(U. S. Food and Drug Administration's Bulletin Board System).  
Using the telnet facility, telnet to "fdabbs.fda.gov", and  
login as "bbs".    
  
Technical Support is available for the FDA BBS System from   
7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday. For support,   
contact the Parklawn Computer Center (PCC) at (301)443-7318.   
If you are looking for a specific report or article, contact   
the FDA Press Office at (301)443-3285.   
 
 
--------------------------------------------------
|  Online library catalogs (to help find books)  |
--------------------------------------------------
 
There are many good (and some awful) books about cancer and  
cancer-related issues.  You local library may have its catalog  
online, especially if it's a University-related library.   
 
 
--------------
|  Net News  |
--------------
 
In case this FAQ was forewarded to you by e-mail, you might  
want to know that it is posted every week or so on the  
news groups "sci.med", and "alt.support.cancer".  These are  
both good newsgroups for cancer information and support.   
The FAQ is also posted on "news.answers", a group for FAQ's. 
 
 
------------------------------------------------------ 
|  The NYU BBS for Brain Tumor Support and Research  | 
------------------------------------------------------ 
 
From: al.musella@woodybbs.com (Al Musella) 
 
  The head of Neurosurgery at NYU set up a commercial bbs system for 
  brain tumor sypport and research.  It is called:  Brain tumor on-line. 
  For information, call voice:  800-785-3312. It is pretty new, and not 
  many people are on it yet, but there are a few doctors from NYU and 
  the Mayo clinic - so it is a good source of info if you have a brain 
  tumor. 
 
 
-----------------
|  Other FAQ's  |
-----------------
 
From: Steve Dunn (snydere@ucsub.Colorado.EDU)  
 
I have an FAQ on new developments in breast cancer. This is definitely not 
a complete guide to breast cancer, rather it is a compilation of things I 
happen to have run across on the subject that I'd want to know about if I 
had breast cancer. I also have FAQ's on good general books on cancer I and 
on online information sources. I also have an FAQ on books on alternative  
cancer therapies. All available by email on request. 
 
 
--------------------------------
|  Shareware Programs via FTP  |
--------------------------------
 
From: hoang@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (My Khanh Hoang) 
Date: 17 May 1994 08:02:51 GMT 
 
      The following ftp site: ftp.cica.indiana.edu has several shareware 
      programs that may be helpful. One particular relevant program is 
      Reduce Cancer Risk in pub/pc/win3/misc. 


--------------------------
| MED HELP INTERNATIONAL |
--------------------------

(From Phil Garfinkel, 9/14/94)

Med Help International (MHLI) provides medical information written in 
non-technical terminology in order to support patients and their families 
who have been struck by the tragedy of serious  illnesses.

MHLI is comprised of an all-volunteer staff of physicians and other health 
care professionals who are electronically connected.

Med Help has set up a FREE Bulletin Board System (BBS) so that people with 
modems and PCs can dial-in for information, request information, or to meet 
other people in similar situations. If you would like to follow up or want 
to help out you can contact us via e-mail...or via the address below...

Our BBS is on Long Island (NY) and it is FREE to the public. 

The BBS phone number is 516-423-0472 

MED HELP INTERNATIONAL INC.
6300 North Wickham Road
Suite 130, Box 188
Melbourne, FL 32940-2029

Voice: (407) 253-9048  
Fax:   (407) 253-1819 
BBS:   (516) 423-0472
Internet: philg@world.std.com
Compuserve: 73174,2405 or 73323,3050


-------------------------------------------------- 
|  The Internet Health Science's Resources List  |
-------------------------------------------------- 

An update of my BITNET/Internet Health Science Resources List  
(03-93) is now available via ftp from FTP2.CC.UKANS.EDU.  
  
 This document is an attempt to create a comprehensive list of  
health science resources available on the wide area networks. The  
list includes Listserv groups, Usenet groups, Freenets, Data  
Archives, Electronic Publications & Health Science oriented  
databases.  This update also includes expanded gopher and WWW  
sites with many URL addresses, pointers to health related  
documents, and a large E-Journal section, along with several new  
databases and libraries.  I hope you'll find this document useful  
for your Internet travels.  
  
 Access via ftp: FTP2.CC.UKANS.EDU  
 Directory: pub/hmatrix  
 FILE: medlst03.txt  or medlst03.zip  
  
Lee Hancock                            
Internet - LE07144@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU 
Owner & Editor: Internet/BitNet Health Science Resources List  
Owner CPRI-L (Listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu) Computerized Patient Records  
      HMATRIX-L (Listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu) Online Health Resources  
  
  
----------------------------------
|  The Better Information Group  |
----------------------------------
 
(While not an online source, the Better Information Group  
is included here for those interested in Breast Cancer. 
The information was received from webl@aol.com in July 1994.)
 
-------------------------------------------------------------- 
Better Information Group publishes information guides. One of 
them is a basic understanding of Breast Cancer and treatments, etc.  
Their guides are $2.00 each. For other guides they have a toll free 
number giving details 1-800-814-4139. Their mailing address is: 
 
Better Information Group 
8815 N. 12th Place, Station T 
Phx, AZ 85020 


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|  BMT-Talk  | 
--------------

From: laurel@ai.mit.edu (Laurel Simmons) 
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 94 16:14:59 EDT 
 
bmt-talk@ai.mit.edu is a moderated mailing list for the discussion of 
Bone Marrow Transplants. 
 
This mailing list is open to anyone who wants to talk with other 
people about bone marrow transplants. It doesn't matter if you are the 
patient, or somebody who has a relationship with a patient. Health 
care professional are certainly welcome. It also doesn't matter what 
the diagnosis is. Everyone with an interest in bone marrow 
transplantation is invited to contribute to this list. 
 
The moderator (that's me!) is Laurel Simmons. I live in the Boston 
area and had a bone marrow transplant in 1987 at the Fred Hutch in 
Seattle for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia.  
 
To subscribe to bmt-talk send mail to bmt-talk-request@ai.mit.edu with 
only the word "subscribe" (no quotes) in the body of the message. 
 
To get more info on bmt-talk send mail to bmt-talk-request@ai.mit.edu 
with only the word "info"" (no quotes) in the body of the message. 
 
Once you are subscribed you can send regular mail to 
bmt-talk@ai.mit.edu (without the word request in the address). 


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| Other Online Mailing Lists |
------------------------------

(Thanks to Steve Dunn for the next three references)

CANCER-L - A very intensive general support group highly recommended!
To subscribe: Send a message to: LISTSERV@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU
Leave the subject line blank, and set the first message line to:
SUBSCRIBE CANCER-L <Your Name>

Brain Tumor Discussion Mailing List:
To subscribe: Send a message to: LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Leave the subject line blank, and set the first message line to:
subscribe BRAINTMR your_first_name your_last_name

Breast Cancer Discussion Mailing List:
To subscribe: Send a message to LISTSERVER@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA
Leave the subject line blank, and set the first message line to:
subscribe BREAST-CANCER


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|  Cryogenic suspension services  |
-----------------------------------

Here is the list of organizations with cryonic suspension capability (or
that are working to achieve cryonic suspension capability).

Alcor is not only a membership and caretaking organization but also
does the cryonic suspensions.
    Email: info@alcor.org

The American Cryonics Society is the membership organization and the
suspensions and caretaking contracted out to other organizations.
    Email: cryonics@netcom.com

CryoCare is a new organization (actually a group of organizations)
incorporated in late 1993 and opening for business in 1994.
The people creating it have been top cryonics supporters and
researchers for many years.
    Email: 72727.560@CompuServe.com (Brenda Peters, President)
    Email: 71042.3557@CompuServe.com (Charles Platt, Vice-President)

CryoSpan is a new for-profit company formed for the purpose
of providing long-term cryogenic care of humans and
their companion animals at the lowest possible price.
    Email: 70023.3041@CompuServe.com

Trans Time does both suspensions and caretaking for cryonics patients.
    Email: quaife@math.berkeley.edu

(From R.C.W. Ettinger, 10 Jul 94) 
The Cryonics Institute is one of the four cryonics 
organizations offering physical services, and the second largest. It is also 
by far the lowest in cost, which could be important to people in exceptional 
danger and ineligible for new life insurance. There are several funding 
options. Anyone who inquires will be sent a package of information without 
cost or obligation. 
 
	R.C.W. Ettinger 
	Cryonics Institute 
	24443 Roanoke, Oak Park MI 48237 
	Phone  (810) 548-9549 
	Phone/Fax (810) 547-2316 
	E-Mail <ettinger@aol.com> 


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|  The BMT Newsletter  |
------------------------
From: flatau@cli.com (Arthur D. Flatau)

I was pleasantly surprised to find that several issues of the BMT 
Newsletter are on-line.  What is on-line is the book: "Bone Marrow 
Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients" and the January, March and 
May, 1994 issues of the BMT Newsletter.  These are available on New 
York State Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse (BCIC) gopher. 
 
gopher to nysernet.org or if you use a world-wide web brower (e.g. 
Mosaic) the URL is http://nysernet.org/. 
 
Look under "Special Collections: Breast Cancer Information 
Clearinghouse" then "Sources of Medical Information and Support" and 
then "BMT Newsletter". 
 
Most of the November, 1993 issue of the BMT Newsletter is available on 
the Yale biomedical gopher.  Point gopher to info.med.yale.edu or use 
the WWW URL gopher://info.med.yale.edu/. 
 
Look under "Biomedical disciplines and specific diseases", then 
"Diseases and disorders" and then "Organ and tissue transplant 
information". 
 
In my opinion the BMT Newsletter is the best single source of 
information for patients considering undergoing a bone marrow 
transplant.  I hope that most of the other issues of the BMT 
Newsletter will be on-line soon. 
 

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|  The Powerlines & Cancer FAQ (i.e. do powerlines cause cancer?)  |
--------------------------------------------------------------------

From: jmoulder@its.mcw.edu (John Moulder) 
Date: 6 Jul 1994 19:41:57 GMT 
 
FAQs on Power-Frequency Fields and Cancer 
 
The primary anonymous FTP archive is: 
cdmas.crc.mcw.edu/pub/powerlines_and_cancer 
This archive contains both the posted 6-part version and a complete 1-part 
version. 
 
The FAQ sheet will be archived, after varying intervals, in the following 
places: 
 
Anonymous FTP: 
"rtfm.mit.edu" 
Directory: /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/powerlines-cancer-FAQ 
Files: part1, part2,... part6 
 
E-mail server: 
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu 
-To get the current FAQ you would send the following message 
   send /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/part1 
   . . .  
   send /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/part6 
 
On GEnie in the library of the Space and Science Roundtable (M460;3). The 
file is called EMF-FAQ.ZIP. 
 
On World Wide Web at: 
http://archive.xrt.upenn.edu/0h/faq/powerline_faq 
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/powerlines-cancer-FAQ 
 
 
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|  Free Drug Program  |
-----------------------
From: wilds@netcom.com (William D. Sterling)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:34:49 GMT

If you are financially distressed by the high cost of your cancer 
medication you can try to obtain free medication under a program
operated by the United States Senate, Department of Aging.
Majority Phone 202-224-5364 Minority phone 202-224-1467
At least 31 Drug companies will give 3 month supplies of
drugs under the "indigent drug program" when requested on a form
that your doctor can fill out.
Call the above numbers for a list of the companies, drugs and 
contact phone numbers.
The same list can be found via gopher at cancer.med.upenn.edu
under the menu selection indigent drugs.


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|  InterNIC  |
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(From the Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/3/94, page A16)

        InterNIC Information Services has a new free publication called the
Scout Report that provides useful information to assist educators and
researchers in using the Internet. For instance, a recent issue explained
how to connect to information servers at various research labs and
universities. To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@is.internic.net with
the message: subscribe scout-report. Mosaic users can connect to
http://www.internic.net


----------------------------------
|  The Texas Cancer Data Center  |
----------------------------------
From: flatau@cli.com (Arthur D. Flatau)
Date: 30 Jun 1994 15:36:15 -0500

Via Internet:  telnet txcancer.mda.uth.tmc.edu

Via modem:  dial 800-788-9293 (in Houston or outside Texas 713-794-5858)
Modem settings: No parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, Full Duplex
You need to have VT100 emulation.

E-mail can be sent to message@txcancer.mda.uth.tmc.edu.  "users are
encouraged to send suggestions, comments or questions about the
system or data provided."


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|  The clinical trials mailing list  |
--------------------------------------
 From: bleicher@world.std.com (Paul Bleicher)
 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 04:00:35 GMT

I have started a new mailing list for those interested in the design, 
management and execution of clinical trials.   To subscribe, send an EMAIL 
message to: 

majordomo@world.std.com

The body of the text should read (exactly as written):  

subscribe Clinical_Trials

Information on the list will follow, including
instructions on posting messages.
 

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|  The Florida Coalition for Cancer Survivorship BBS |
-------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 11:13:22 EST
From: "Drew H. Wolfe 813-253-7233" <WOLFED1@mail.firn.edu>
 
The Florida Coalition for Cancer Survivorship BBS, FCCS BBS, is a new BBS
devoted to the needs and concerns of cancer survivors, their family 
members, and oncology health care professionals. Highlights of the 
FCCS BBS include:

NCI's PDQ and CancerLit, hundreds of other cancer-related files and 
shareware, forums devoted to many different areas of cancer (disease 
specific, cancer support and support groups, message bases for oncology 
health care professionals), a database where you can post or read 
cancer stories, a database of tumor images, . . .  

You can access the FCCS BBS at the following toll free number:
(800) 816-2744. Shortly, the FCCS BBS will connected to FidoNet and 
Internet.  For more information contact Drew  H. Wolfe, 
wolfed1@mail.firn.edu.


---------
| LINCS |
---------

LINCS is a FREE public service that provides a searchable on-line
human services resource directory Internet mail and usenet is available.

LINCS-BBS -- 408/727-7227  Settings N81, to 14,400 baud, 3 lines.

FTP site: ftp.netcom.com         Our directory, called phpsetup.exe
   login: anonymous              is available from this site and our
   passw: your email address     WWW page.  It is searchable and you
          cd pub/LINCS           may feel free to share this program
                                 with others.  We welcome your feedback
                                 and comments.  EMAIL TO: sysop@php.com
                                 The directory is updated regularly.

WWW: http://www.portal.com/~cbntmkr/php.html

Real World:  3041 Olcott Street, Santa Clara, CA 95054-3222
               408/727-5775  FAX: 408/727-0181

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
(end of the Cancer FAQ)  










From owner-www@net.bio.net Sat Nov 12 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: ss3@motel6.wustl.edu (Shiwei Sun)
Subject: Archiving WWW newsgroup (RE:) [Q] Please repost WWW Introduction: parts 3 and 4
Message-ID: <39tpc1$ocb@bigfoot.wustl.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 18:38:57 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
Lines: 52

[the body of the message was empty. The following is from the moderator.]

Dear colleagues, 

the newsgroup bionet.software.www is archived in various ways. 


(1) WWW
=======
The WWW archive of the group is accessible using the URL 


                       http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/info.html


(2) GOPHER
==========
The news archive of the bionet.software.www stream is at net.bio.net in the 
usual WAIS-indexed archives accessible via the GOPHER URL 

                         gopher://net.bio.net

If you want to search for a given article, just give the keyword(s) and 
browse the result pages. The topic 'WWW introduction' is searched best 
with the term 'WWW and introduction'. 


(3) FTP
=======

Archives for BIO-WWW/bionet.software.www are kept in the
anonymous FTP account at 
 
                       ftp://net.bio.net/pub/BIOSCI/BIO-WWW

(net.bio.net  [134.172.2.69]).  Look in the directory pub/BIOSCI/BIO-WWW
for posting archives.  Each file is assigned a date such as 9312 for 
December 1993.  Please note that this is a UNIX system and all file and 
directory names are case-sensitive, i.e., upper case file names are 
different from lower case names. 



Regards
Chris Wadley
Reinhard Doelz
EMBnet Switzerland [info@ch.embnet.org]






From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 13 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de (Martin Kroeker)
Subject: Re: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <3a4vdo$em5@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 12:05:12 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
Lines: 24

Lachlan Cranswick (lachlan@dmp.csiro.au) wrote:

: Can people recommend methods to convert scientific
: information and documents in various Word-processor
: formats to HTML.  It would be very nice if 

Unfortunately i have not yet found the time to try Dr. Doelz' interesting
JAM system. But for existing documents, you can get the rtf2html program -
it is, i believe, essentially a PERL script. My personal experience is
limited to its latex2html counterpart, this works fairly well. It will split
the original source into a number of cross-referenced hypertexts, converting
tables, formulae and pictures to GIF or XBM. 
There is even a html style for LaTeX that defines macros that will give 
either footnotes or hyperlinks depending on whether you run it through TeX 
or the converter, so you can use one system for both printed and hypertext 
versions of your text.
Hope this helps,
Martin
--
Dr.-Ing. Martin Kroeker                 
Inst. f. Organ. Chemie                   martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de
Univ. (TH) Darmstadt                           db7p@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de
Germany                                     


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 13 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de (Martin Kroeker)
Subject: Re: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <3a7esu$fe1@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 10:41:34 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
Lines: 19

Martin Kroeker (martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
: Lachlan Cranswick (lachlan@dmp.csiro.au) wrote:

: : Can people recommend methods to convert scientific
: : information and documents in various Word-processor
: : formats to HTML.  It would be very nice if 

: Unfortunately i have not yet found the time to try Dr. Doelz' interesting
: JAM system. But for existing documents, you can get the rtf2html program -
: it is, i believe, essentially a PERL script. My personal experience is
To followup to my own posting - Kris Boulez has kindly informed me that
rtf2html is a C program, not perl like latex2html.
Martin
--
Dr.-Ing. Martin Kroeker                 
Inst. f. Organ. Chemie                   martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de
Univ. (TH) Darmstadt                           db7p@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de
Germany                                     


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 13 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: eggenber (Florian Eggenberger)
Subject: WWW Introduction: Parts 11 and 12
Message-ID: <1994Nov14.072704.15121@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 07:27:04 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
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WWW INTRODUCTION        November 1994
================

PART 11: Installing Lynx on UNIX
--------------------------------

This is the eleventh part of a series of postings describing the concept of 
the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in obtaining and 
setting up the software required to access the Web.

Lynx is a text-based browser that provides a full-screen interface for UNIX 
and VMS platforms. The files you need to run Lynx on UNIX can be retrieved 
by anonymous FTP from sites including (it is quite likely that this may 
change over time):

IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY NETWORK TRAFFIC, PLEASE RETRIEVE THE FILES 
FROM A HOST CLOSE TO YOUR LOCATION.

EUROPEAN SITES

Host: info.nic.surfnet.nl
    Location: /mirror-archive/software/www/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z
Host: warum.uni-mannheim.de
    Location: /packages/WWW/www/clients/Lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z
Host: ftp.cisi.unige.it
    Location: /InfoTools/lyn
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z

US SITES

Host: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu
    Location: /pub/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z
Host: ftp.isri.unlv.edu
    Location: /pub/mirror/infosystems/WWW/clients/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z
Host: gatekeeper.dec.com
    Location: /.3/net/infosys/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.tar.Z

To get a complete list of sites providing these files, use "Archie" (ask a 
local expert).

Obtaining the software:
1) type "ftp" and enter the name of the appropriate host (see above)
2) enter "anonymous" as username and your email address as password
3) type "cd " followed by the location (see above)
4) type "ls" and check whether a precompiled binary "lynx2-3.***.EXE.Z"
   for your system is available (*** stands for the system type)

If the binary is available:
5) type "binary"
6) type "get" followed by the filename of the binary; this will load the
   file to your local machine and may take some time
7) type "ascii" and fetch the files "lynx.cfg", "mailcap" and
   "mime.types" (type "get" followed by the respective filename)
8) type "bye"
9) type "uncompress" followed by the filename of the binary
10) type "chmod ugo+x " followed by the name of the decompressed binary

Configuration:
Modify the file "lynx.cfg" (as explained within the file) and put it in the 
directory specified (ask your system administrator if you don't have "super 
user" privileges). Optionally, edit the files "mime.types" and ".mailcap" 
if you want to change the mapping of file extensions and MIME types. That's 
it, go ahead and access the Web.

If the binary is not available:
5) type "binary"
6) type "get lynx2-3.tar.Z"
7) type "bye"
8) type "uncompress lynx2-3.tar.Z"
9) type "tar xvf lynx2-3.tar"
10) change to the directory "lynx2-3" that has been generated
11) modify the files "lynx.cfg" and "userdefs.h" according to your system
    configuration (changes to be done are explained within the files)
12) modify the "Makefile": specify the directory where you want the
    executable to be put in
13) type "make" to get a list of all supported systems
14) type "make" followed by your system type; this will generate the
    executable and may take some time
15) configure Lynx as described above

That's it, type "lynx" to get to the World-Wide Web.


Florian Eggenberger
EMBnet Switzerland




WWW INTRODUCTION        November 1994
================

PART 12: Installing Lynx on VMS
-------------------------------

This is the twelfth part of a series of postings describing the concept of 
the World-Wide Web and guiding anyone who is interested in obtaining and 
setting up the software required to access the Web.

Lynx is a text-based browser that provides a full-screen interface for UNIX 
and VMS platforms. The files you need to run Lynx on VMS can be retrieved 
by anonymous FTP from sites including (it is quite likely that this may 
change over time):

IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY NETWORK TRAFFIC, PLEASE RETRIEVE THE FILES 
FROM A HOST CLOSE TO YOUR LOCATION.

EUROPEAN SITES

Host: info.nic.surfnet.nl
    Location: /mirror-archive/software/www/lynx
      File: lynx2-3_***_***.EXE
      File: lynx2-3.zip
Host: warum.uni-mannheim.de
    Location: /packages/WWW/www/clients/Lynx
      File: lynx2-3_***_***.EXE
      File: lynx2-3.zip
Host: nic.switch.ch
    Location: /mirror/WWW/CERN/src
      File: unzip.exe
      File: unzip_alpha.exe
Host ftp.germany.eu.net
    Location: /pub/infosystems/www/w3o/src
      File: unzip.exe
      File: unzip_alpha.exe

US SITES

Host: ftp.isri.unlv.edu
    Location: /pub/mirror/infosystems/WWW/clients/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***_***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.zip
Host: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu
    Location: /pub/lynx
      File: lynx2-3.***_***.EXE.Z
      File: lynx2-3.zip
Host: ftp.bio.indiana.edu
    Location: /util/vms/zip
      FILE: unzip.exe
Host: gatekeeper.dec.com
    Location: /.3/net/infosys/www/bin/vms
      File: unzip_alpha.exe

To get a complete list of sites providing these files, use "Archie" (ask a 
local expert).

Obtaining the software:
1) type "ftp" and enter the name of the appropriate host (see above)
2) enter "anonymous" as username and your email address as password
3) type "cd " followed by the location (see above)
4) type "ls" and check whether a precompiled binary "lynx2-3.***_***.EXE.Z"
   for your system is available (***_*** stands for the system type)

If the binary is available:
5) type "binary"
6) type "get" followed by the filename of the binary; this will load the
   file to your local machine and may take some time
7) type "ascii" and fetch the files "lynx.cfg", "mailcap" and
   "mime.types" (type "get" followed by the respective filename)
8) type "bye"

Configuration:
Modify the file "lynx.cfg" (make changes as explained within the file) and 
put it in the directory specified. Then, set up Lynx as a command: Create 
the commmand file "lynx.com", add a line to define the symbol "lynx" (e.g. 
"$ lynx:==$device:[user.lynx]lynx.exe"), assign logicals for the location 
of the configuration file (e.g. "$ define "Lynx_Dir" "device:[user.lynx]"") 
and the Usenet News server (e.g. "$ define "NNTPSERVER" "myserver""), then 
add a line to allow the execution of Lynx with an argument (e.g. "lynx 
'P1'"). Optionally, modify the files "mime.types" and ".mailcap" if you 
want to change the mapping of file extensions and MIME types. That's it, 
type "@lynx" to get to the World-Wide Web.

If the binary is not available:
5) type "binary"
6) type "get lynx2-3.zip"
7) type "bye"
8) optionally, retrieve "unzip.exe" (for VAX/VMS) or "unzip_alpha.exe"
   (for AXP/VMS) you require a program to process ".zip" files (see above).
9) decompress the archive "lynx2-3.zip" using "unzip" or "unzip_alpha"
10) change to the directory "lynx*" that has been generated
11) modify the files "lynx.cfg" and "userdefs.h" according to your system
    configuration (changes to be done are explained within the files)
12) type "@build", and specify whether you are running MultiNet, UCX or
    Wollogong; this will generate the executable and may take some time
13) configure Lynx as described above

That's it, type "@lynx" to get to the World-Wide Web.


Florian Eggenberger
EMBnet Switzerland


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|  Biocomputing                |  eggenberger1@ubaclu.unibas.ch |        
|  University of Basel         |  Fax  +41 / 61 267 20 78       | 
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From owner-www@net.bio.net Mon Nov 14 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: whitfb@dorsai.dorsai.org (Whit Blauvelt)
Subject: Re: [Q] A really good rtftohtml converter?
Message-ID: <CzAF0x.2IG@dorsai.org>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy - New York
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 02:31:44 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
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Neal Dalton (nrd@scrapie.med.umn.edu) wrote:

: On ftp.cray.com is one.  I didn't really like it, but it does work.  I
: bring RTF into to Word, then into FrameMaker and use fm2html.

Does this work well enough to get FrameMaker for? Or is it only a 
worthwhile route for those who already have FrameMaker for other uses?

Whit


From owner-www@net.bio.net Mon Nov 14 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: sendall@dxpt01.cern.ch (Mike Sendall)
Subject: Re: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <CzB14v.Jx6@news.cern.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 10:29:18 GMT
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In article <1994Nov13.045856.13572@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>
>Can people recommend methods to convert scientific
>information and documents in various Word-processor
>formats to HTML. 

You will find references to quite a few tools for this in 

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Filters.html
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Mike Sendall                                       | ECP Division
European Laboratory for Particle Physics           | CERN
                                                   | CH-1211 Geneva 23
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From owner-www@net.bio.net Mon Nov 14 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: DMoerman@gus.nsac.ns.ca
Subject: WWW info. on artificial wetlands for waste treatment
Message-ID: <1994Nov15.054430.16507@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 05:44:30 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from alt.sustainable.agriculture,sci.agriculture,bionet.general,sci.bio.ecology ]
[ Posted on 14 Nov 94 14:52:14 -0400 ]

Over the past three years the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and
Marketing has been working on a phased approach to the implimentation of
artificial wetlands for agricultural waste treatment. As phases of this project
are completed, documents related to the subject are being placed on the
Departments world wide web page. Currently, the results of a project to create
an annotated bibliography on the subject have been placed on-line. This
includes a project summary, list of references, and the start of an annotated
bibliography. It can be accessed through my home page at:

"http://gus.nsac.ns.ca/~dmo/dmoerman.html" 

or directly at:

"http://gus.nsac.ns.ca/~piinfo/resman/wetlands/litproj.html"

Comments on these documents or references for addition to the annotated
bibliography should be forwarded to me by email at:

DMOerman@gus.nsac.ns.ca



From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 15 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: leland@straylight.tamu.edu (Leland Ellis)
Subject: Biodiversity and Ecosystems NEtwork (BENE) WWW Server
Message-ID: <1994Nov16.064702.17516@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences
	and Technology, Texas A&M University, Houston
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 20:18:18 GMT
Approved: bio-www@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
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Hello,

we are pleased to announce the opening of the Biodiversity and
Ecosystems NEtwork (BENE) webserver, hosted by the W.M. Keck Center
for Genome Informatics at Texas A&M University.  In addition to the
Keck Center, the other founding partners are the

	National Performance Review NetResults project
	Smithsonian Institution
	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

We welcome other partners.

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the BENE webserver is:

http://straylight.tamu.edu/bene/bene.html

The goal of the BENE webserver is to help those interested in
biodiversity and ecosystems to find information, and foster dialogue
and collaborations.  BENE also represents a demonstration of some of
the capabilities suggested for the proposed U.S.  National
Biodiversity Information Center (NBIC).

BENE also provides an Email ListServer to encourage discussions,
queries, and information sharing.  To subscribe to the BENE list, send
a message to:

     listproc@straylight.tamu.edu 

with the text: 

     subscribe bene <your_full_name> <your_email_address>

The subject line is ignored by the list processor.

A searchable WAIS-indexed version of the BENE Email List Archives is
available via the BENE Home Page, as well as via the Main Menu of the
Keck Gopher:

gopher://keck.tamu.edu/

Please use the email form on the BENE WWW server to provide 
comments and suggestions.

Cheers,

Steve Young
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and 
Smithsonian Biodiversity Program
email:  young.steve@epamail.epa.gov
URL:  http://www.epa.gov/

Leland Ellis
Director, W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics
Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M University
Houston
email:  leland@straylight.tamu.edu
URL:  http://straylight.tamu.edu/straylight.html
--
********************************************************************

Leland Ellis, Ph.D.       			       /^\___/^\   
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics	      {         }  
Director, W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics    {   0   0   } 
Institute of Biosciences and Technology		     {     *     } 
Texas A&M University				       {   -   }   
2121 Holcombe					         {   }     
Houston, Texas  77030
                                                      Misty Maggoo

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

email: leland@straylight.tamu.edu
URL:   http://straylight.tamu.edu/straylight.html

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

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

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

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



From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 15 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: stoddard@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Mari J Stoddard)
Subject: EVAL REQ: pediatric critical care page
Message-ID: <3a8dak$kve@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: University of Arizona, Unix Users Group
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:20:52 GMT
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An intern from the University of Arizona School of Library Science has
written a page for the Pediatric Critical Care department.  Suggestions, 
additions, and corrections for style, content and organization would be 
appreciated.  Local materials will be added next semester.

URL:
	http://amber.medlib.arizona.edu/ped-crit/pcc.html

Thank you.

--
Mari J. Stoddard                            stoddard@ccit.arizona.edu
602 / 626 - 2925 (voice)                       602 / 626 - 2922 (fax)
Educational Services              http://128.196.106.42/homepage.html
Arizona Health Sciences Library   The University of Arizona in Tucson


From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 15 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: "Reinhard Doelz, Biocomputing Basel" <doelz>
Subject: Re: [Q] unix non-GUI HTML editor?
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.941116062330.15496C-100000@biox.embnet.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 05:45:16 GMT
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On 16 Nov 1994, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote:

> Does anyone have source code for a HTML editor for a non-GUI
> environment?  Configuration files for vi or emacs would also be fine.
> Anon ftp or other archive sites would be a suitable response.
> 
file://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/modes
hosts a file for an 'emacs mode' useful in html editing. (html-mode.el)

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From owner-www@net.bio.net Tue Nov 15 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: karant@gallium.csus.edu (Dr. Yasha Karant)
Subject: [Q] unix non-GUI HTML editor?
Message-ID: <3abmrt$5ag@news.csus.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 01:22:05 GMT
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Does anyone have source code for a HTML editor for a non-GUI
environment?  Configuration files for vi or emacs would also be fine.
Anon ftp or other archive sites would be a suitable response.

N.B.:  Please excuse the automatic return email address put in by the
news source my university uses.  We do not administer it and it does
not (generally) report my correct address.

Thanks.

Yasha Karant
karnat@gallium.csusb.edu


From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 16 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: dmaddsn@ccit.arizona.edu (David Maddison)
Subject: WWW Phylogenetic Navigator
Message-ID: <dmaddsn-1611941627030001@bembidion.agforbes.arizona.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: University of Arizona
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 23:26:24 GMT
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Dear WWW fans,

We would like to introduce you to a project we have begun, called "The Tree
of Life: A Phylogenetic Navigator for the Internet".  It is available for
browsing at the WWW URL 

   http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
     
The Tree of Life is still in prototype stage, and we would very much
appreciate suggestions.

The Tree of Life consists of a series of HTML pages. Each page shows a 
phylogeny or classification for a particular clade:

     ===============Insecta
     |
     |     =========Collembola
<<===|=====|
     |     =========Protura
     |
     ===============Diplura


>From each page one can wander to broader phylogenetic scales by touching on
the root or to finer resolutions by touching on the terminal taxa.  In this
way, one can wander up and down and across the whole tree of life.  Each of
these pages might have figures and information about the clade, as well as
jump points to electronic information about the taxon beyond that contained
in the Tree of Life system.  At the tips of the tree will be pages of
information and figures about particular species.  The Tree of Life will be
dispersed across the Internet, with the home server and root of the tree
residing here, but particular clades of organisms at various other sites.

More information on the Tree of Life, including its goals and structure, is
available at the URL given above.
This URL points to the home page, and it will lead you into the tree itself.
You might want to browse around the home page itself, and go to
the various documents refered to therein to discussions of the system, how
to use it, plans for the future, and so on.  Many of these documents are
under construction; we hope you can forgive the dust and scaffolding and
see the vision of what is to come.

Our work on this project involves developing a standard visual display and set
of protocols for this phylogenetic map to electronic information about
organisms. In addition to working on the protocols, we are developing a set
of tools to make production of pages of the tree easy.  We are also
maintaining the basal branches of the Tree and working on sites for our own
special groups of organisms.

The tree itself is currently very incomplete.  We have put most work
in Arthropods, especially in the insects.  But in many groups only
one of several competing hypotheses is shown (yes, the system will have
a capacity to handle alternative hypotheses - we will add some examples
in insects), and in others existing phylogenetic knowledge is not yet shown.
Other information, including about Internet sites, has yet to be added to
many pages.

Some pathways up the tree we might recommend are on the page
"Browsing suggestions for the Tree of Life".  A link to this page
is partway down the first, home page, in the list of documents at
the home site.

If you do have any suggestions or comments, please send us a note at
tree@phylogeny.arizona.edu.

David and Wayne Maddison

====================================================
David Maddison
Department of Entomolgy
University of Arizona
Tucson


Wayne Maddison
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona
Tucson
====================================================


From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 16 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: karant@gallium.csus.edu (Dr. Yasha Karant)
Subject: Re: [Q] Word-processor to HTML converter?
Message-ID: <3adpkg$r47@news.csus.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:21:36 GMT
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Martin Kroeker (martin@oc2.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:

: rtf2html is a C program, not perl like latex2html.

Thank you for mentioning these two programs.  Is it possible to also
mention a site from which they are available?  Such a reference saves
archie time.  An anon ftp site is probably the most generally useful,
especially if the files are .shar, .tar, .tgz, or the like.

Thanks again.

Yasha Karant
karant@gallium.csusb.edu


From owner-www@net.bio.net Wed Nov 16 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: becker@ps1515.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Andreas Becker)
Subject: [Q] Is there a HTML to ASCI converter
Message-ID: <3admrl$p5f@surz03.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Universitaet, Marburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 19:34:13 GMT
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I want to save some HMTL text files without anchors and all this stuff.
I can't do it directly, only by editing the HMTL file.
Do you know any solution?

Andreas Becker
Marburg


From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Nov 17 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: jan_saev@embla.gih.no (saevik jan )
Subject: [Q] Where can i find html mail systems & Guestbook's
Message-ID: <3afneb$hij@ratatosk.uninett.no>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Gjoevik College of Engineering
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Can anybody help me locate those neat pages that makes able
to leave a message or mail people from html-pages.
I have seen those types of html-pages on lots of WWW sites
and i wounder how it is done.

My e-mail: jan_saev@spirea.gih.no

Jan Ove Saevik


From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Nov 17 22:00:00 1994
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Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!trane.uninett.no!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: doelz (Reinhard Doelz)
Subject: Re: [Q] Where can i find html mail systems & Guestbook's
Message-ID: <1994Nov18.073247.12584@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 07:32:47 GMT
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saevik jan (jan_saev@embla.gih.no) wrote:
: Can anybody help me locate those neat pages that makes able
: to leave a message or mail people from html-pages.
: I have seen those types of html-pages on lots of WWW sites
: and i wounder how it is done.

The most recent versions of some browsers support the 'mailto' method. 
This comfortable feature allows a provider to state a single URL and the 
'client' has to do all the work. The other alternative is to have the 
provider do a fill-out FORMS which is then sent to the host via WWW as 
a complex 'query', and processed accordingly. 

The newsgroup bionet.software.www uses a PERL script via a CGI POST 
method. The latter is 
# ||Copyright 1993 Steven E. Brenner                                    ||
# ||Unpublished work.                                                   ||
# ||Permission granted to use and modify this library so long as the    ||
# ||copyright above is maintained, modifications are documented, and    ||
# ||credit is given for any use of the library.                         ||

 
Maybe this helps 
Regards
Reinhard 



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From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Nov 17 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: "Reinhard Doelz, Biocomputing Basel" <doelz>
Subject: Re: To: moderator(s)
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.941118080016.11603A-100000@biox.embnet.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 07:02:58 GMT
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On 18 Nov 1994, Dr. Yasha Karant wrote:

> I have posted what I thought were legitimate requests to this group
> with the leading [Q], etc.  They have not appeared.  Can one of the
> moderators provide guidance and/or a group FAQ and/or other
> appropriate docs?
> 

We have checked the posting at different sites and it proved to work out 
OK. Please consult http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/discussion.html if 
your mail or news system is malfunctioning and contact a local consultant 
for assistance in reading NEWS and MAIL. 
Your posting is @ 
http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/HTMLed_4.html
and a reply on 
http://www.ch.embnet.org/bio-www/archive/re_HTMLed_4.html

Chris Wadley 
Reinhard Doelz
BIO-WWW moderation




From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 20 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: John VanDyk
Subject: Announce: FLEA NEWS available by WWW, Gopher, FTP
Message-ID: <1994Nov20.213246.10594@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 21:32:46 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.general ]
[ Posted on 18 Nov 1994 15:56:48 GMT ]

The Department of Entomology at Iowa State University announces the
availibility of FLEA NEWS on the Internet.

FLEA NEWS is a biannual newsletter devoted to matters involving insects
belonging to the order Siphonaptera (fleas) and related subjects. It is
compiled and distributed free of charge by Robert E. Lewis, with the
support of the Department of Entomology at Iowa State University at Ames,
IA, and a grant in aid from Sandoz Animal Health, based in Des Plaines,
IL. It is mainly bibliographic in nature. Many of the sources are
abstracting journals and title pages and not all citations have been
checked for completeness or accuracy. Additional information will be
provided upon written request to R.E. Lewis at the following addresses:

R.E. Lewis                        Internet: relewis@iastate.edu
Department of Entomology
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

The preferred method of accessing the electronic version of FLEA NEWS is
through the World-Wide Web at the following Universal Resource Locator:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~entomology/FleaNews/AboutFleaNews.html

or through either Gopher or anonymous FTP:

gopher.ent.iastate.edu

in the "Publications" directory.

Volumes 46, 47 and 48 are available electronically. Future volumes will be
published simultaneously on the Internet and in the more traditional
manner.

-- John VanDyk, Medical Entomology       Internet: jvandyk@iastate.edu --
436 Science II, Iowa State Univ., Ames IA 50011 (USA); Phone 515-294-4387
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~entomology/GradStudents/VanDyk.html         
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 20 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: evo@violet.berkeley.edu ()
Subject: Announce: Virtual Discussion Group for Evolutionary Biology Web Page
Message-ID: <3ak11n$ec1@agate.berkeley.edu>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Announcing the Virtual Discussion Group for Evolutionary Biology Web page.

The URL is http://info.ITP.Berkeley.EDU/IB160.  This page is still under
construction.

___________________________________________________________________________


"Virtual Discussion Group" for Evolutionary Biology

The Instructional Technology Program (ITP) and the Department of Integrative
Biology (IB) at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a
"virtual discussion group" in IB's upper division Evolution class (IB160).

Professor David Wake of Integrative Biology and Kellar Autumn, IB graduate
student and member of ITP's new Graduate Student Council on Instructional
Technology, have worked together on a system to facilitate discussion among
students and "remote experts" on the Internet.  The system is designed to
bridge the gap between traditional discussion sections and textbook
material. 

Usually sections involve discussion of assigned textbook material among
groups of students and a teaching assistant.  IB160 is unusual in that
textbook material takes the form of a reader containing articles from the
recent primary literature.  By using the reader, the course presents
evolution as a lively, open field with ongoing debates over modern topics.

IB160 introduces students to the conceptual framework of evolutionary
biology by presenting central ideas and controversies in lectures, followed
by readings in weekly discussion sections, where students debate and
evaluate not only the latest research but also points of contention and
conceptual advances.

Wake and Autumn have assembled a panel of experts from around the world that
rivals the editorial board of major scholarly journals.  Course assignments
enable students to ask basic questions and discuss course material with
leaders in the field, including correspondence with the "remote expert of the
week."

The remote experts have been very enthusiastic about these virtual
discussions and have been impressed by the sophistication of student
questions and comments.  Accordingly, the experts have answered student
questions in great detail.  The system will likely be utilized in other IB
classes as well.

Information about the project is available at
http://info.ITP.Berkeley.EDU/IB160.

-Kellar Autumn and Jean Yim
 evo@violet.Berkeley.EDU


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 20 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: Carl Foeller
Subject: Prophet Anonymous FTP/WWW/Gopher Announcement
Message-ID: <1994Nov20.135119.20392@comp.bioz.unibas.ch>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [Basel]
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.announce,bionet.software ]
[ Posted on 18 Nov 1994 22:25:47 -0800 ]

The National Institutes of Health and BBN Systems and Technologies
announce the availability of The Prophet Software System via Anonymous
FTP and its World Wide Web (WWW) and Gopher servers.


The software can be obtained via anonymous FTP.

  *   To access Prophet via anonymous FTP, type:         
        
             ftp www-prophet.bbn.com

             Login as user "anonymous"
             Use your email address as the password

	International guests should contact the Prophet Hotline
	at (617) 873-2669 or send electronic mail to 
	prophet-info@bbn.com.


Information about Prophet is available through its WWW and Gopher
servers.

  *  The URL for the Prophet WWW server Home Page is:

            http://www-prophet.bbn.com/

  *  The Gopher Server can be accessed at the address below. The Gopher
     Server can also be reached through the Prophet WWW server Home
     Page.

             gopher www-prophet.bbn.com

            
What is Prophet?

  The Prophet System is a UNIX-workstation software package that gives
  researchers a wide range of computing capabilities.  One of Prophet's
  greatest assets is its graphical user interface.  Employing the
  latest advances in software technology, Prophet lets you store,
  analyze, and present Data Tables, Graphs, Statistical Analyses, and
  offers Sequence Analysis(*) capabilities.
  
  Molecular modeling capabilities, currently available with the command
  line interface, will soon be supported under the graphical user
  interface.
  
  Prophet is sponsored by the National Center for Research Resources at
  the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  The NIH sponsors the
  continuing improvement of the Prophet System as part of its effort to
  promote advancement in the life sciences, in research, and in the
  application of biotechnology.

What Hardware Does Prophet Support?

  Prophet is available on SUN 4/SPARC workstations running both SunOS
  and Solaris, and DEC/RISC workstations running Ultrix.

  Prophet will soon be available for the Silicon Graphics and
  DEC/Alpha.


If you need additional information or have questions regarding
Prophet, call us on the Prophet Hotline (617) 873-2669 or send
electronic mail to prophet-info@bbn.com.

The Prophet Distribution Group
at BBN Systems and Technologies
10 Moulton Street
M/S 6/2A
Cambridge, MA 02138



(*) Sequence analysis tools are scheduled to be released in June, 1995.


From owner-www@net.bio.net Sun Nov 20 22:00:00 1994
Newsgroups: bionet.software.www
Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!moderate
From: ralle@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ( Ralf Biermann)
Subject: Re: [Q] Is there a HTML to ASCI converter
Message-ID: <CzIGrv.Ms5@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
Sender: moderate@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Rechenzentrum
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 10:50:18 GMT
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In article <3admrl$p5f@surz03.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>, becker@ps1515.chemie.uni-marburg.de (Andreas Becker) writes:
> I want to save some HMTL text files without anchors and all this stuff.
> I can't do it directly, only by editing the HMTL file.
> Do you know any solution?
> 
> Andreas Becker
> Marburg
> 
If you just want the text, I suggest to use Mosaic to display the file via
the OPEN LOCAL option, then save it as ASCII. Other browsers should have similar
options...

hope that helps,
Ralf.
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From: eggenber (Florian Eggenberger)
Subject: WWW Introduction: Part 13
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