Subject: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: WWW IN BIOLOGY
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Organizer: Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany.
w o r k s h o p e: b i o l o g y o n t h e w e b
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C A L L F O R C O N T R I B U T I O N S
Half-day workshop on Monday, April 10, 1995 2.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Since the conference in 1994 at Geneva, the demand for WWW applications in
Biology is rising steadily, and new applications show up instantaneously.
Two areas of interest will be tackled specifically:
The approaches chosen to expand on Areas A or B might include
contributions on:
- Resource discovery: Maintenance of meta lists
- Redundancy: How to approach the 'best' of some very similar servers
- State of the Art WWW servers: Approaches and problems
- Database synchronization on the Web via the Web
The workshop is open to everyone agreeing to contribute a short (less
than 4 pages) paper or written participant statement. We want to have
active participants in the workshops. The workshop chairs will decide
on the program and presentations. Depending on the number of
contributing participants the workshop may be opened also for
additional non-contributing participants.
Please send your contribution directly to the workshop chairs no later
than March 1:
Reinhard Doelz
Biocomputing | Biozentrum der Universitdt Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Email: doelz@ubaclu.unibas.ch
Fax: +41-61-267-2078
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From: FlyBase Project Members
Subject: FlyBase WWW Home Page
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FlyBase WWW Home Page
FlyBase is pleased to announce public availability of a fully
developed WWW home page for exploring and searching the FlyBase database
of genetic information about Drosophila.
The URL you can use to reach the FlyBase home page is
http://morgan.harvard.edu/
The FlyBase home page offers several new capabilities.
Many of the reports you can request as the result of a search include
WWW hyperlinks to the WWW pages for such cross-referenced databases as
the sequence databases and Medline.
The most notable new feature is called CytoSearch, a search
tool that enables users to create customized cytogenetic maps of any
desired region of the genome. You can specify the region as well as
the types of genetic entities (e.g., genes, transposons, aberrations,
clones) you wish to have listed for that region. To get to CytoSearch,
select CytoSearch on the page that comes up when you select FlyBase Data
Access on the main home page. It is also possible to reach CytoSearch
by selecting New FlyBase Search Tools on the home page. Be sure to read
the CytoSearch help document if you wish to take full advantage of these
powerful searches.
The FlyBase Data Access page also provides gopher+ access to the
FlyBase server. All gopher+ search forms as well as the forms for
updating your address or ordering stocks from the Bloomington stock
center are fully functional. The Gopher+ WWW relay we are providing does
not yet know how to offer you multiple report forms for gopher+ search
results, so if you require search results in rtf format, you should
continue to use a gopher+ client to request them.
You can use the Contact FlyBase choice on the home page to make
inquiries or report problems to flybase-help@morgan.harvard.edu, or to
send updates and corrections to the information in FlyBase to
flybase-updates@morgan.harvard.edu. If you contact us for help, please
indicate which WWW browser (Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx, something else) and
what sort of computer you were using. This will help us to provide you
with tools that meet your needs.
As before, you can continue to use gopher or gopher+ clients to
access FlyBase.
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From: moderate (Bio-WWW moderator @ EMBnet Switzerland)
Subject: [aministrativa]
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Apologies - we did have a crash of the news system recently. We're catching
up over the weekend but some articles have been sent multiple times.
Regards
Reinhard Doelz
bio-www moderator
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From: Betty K Mansfield (615)576-6669
Subject: Human Genome News, etc. on WWW at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.genome-program ]
[ Posted on 24 Jan 1995 14:43:29 -0800 ]
Human Genome News, a bimonthly newsletter about the Human Genome Project, is
available through World Wide Web at
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html. Jointly sponsored
by the human genome programs of the National Institutes of Health and U.S.
Department of Energy, HGN includes technical and general interest articles
about progress toward project goals, meeting reports, national and
international project news, bioinformatics and laboratory research
resources, genome event and training calendars, and grant and fellowship
announcements.
Also accessible at the same WWW site are occasional in-depth meeting
reports, a list of chromosome-mapping editors, contact information for NIH
and DOE project staff, information on genome centers, selected genome
resources, DOE human genome program reports, a link to the DOE genetics
primer, and pointers to other sites relevant to molecular biology research,
including the home pages of the DOE Human Genome Program and NIH.
For a hard copy subscription to HGN, fill out the form on the WWW server or
contact Betty Mansfield at Human Genome Management Information System; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory; 1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480; Oak Ridge, TN 37830
(615/576-6669, Fax: /574-9888, Internet: mansfieldbk@ornl.gov).
HGN is also available on the Johns Hopkins Gopher at gopher.gdb.org
HGMIS staff welcomes suggestions and inquiries for additional
information.
Betty K. Mansfield
Task leader, Human Genome Management Information System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
615/576-6669; Fax: 615/574-9888; Email: bkq@ornl.gov
HGMIS World Wide Web URL:
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html
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From: Betty K Mansfield (615)576-6669
Subject: Human Genome News, etc. on WWW at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.genome-program ]
[ Posted on 24 Jan 1995 14:43:29 -0800 ]
Human Genome News, a bimonthly newsletter about the Human Genome Project, is
available through World Wide Web at
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html. Jointly sponsored
by the human genome programs of the National Institutes of Health and U.S.
Department of Energy, HGN includes technical and general interest articles
about progress toward project goals, meeting reports, national and
international project news, bioinformatics and laboratory research
resources, genome event and training calendars, and grant and fellowship
announcements.
Also accessible at the same WWW site are occasional in-depth meeting
reports, a list of chromosome-mapping editors, contact information for NIH
and DOE project staff, information on genome centers, selected genome
resources, DOE human genome program reports, a link to the DOE genetics
primer, and pointers to other sites relevant to molecular biology research,
including the home pages of the DOE Human Genome Program and NIH.
For a hard copy subscription to HGN, fill out the form on the WWW server or
contact Betty Mansfield at Human Genome Management Information System; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory; 1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480; Oak Ridge, TN 37830
(615/576-6669, Fax: /574-9888, Internet: mansfieldbk@ornl.gov).
HGN is also available on the Johns Hopkins Gopher at gopher.gdb.org
HGMIS staff welcomes suggestions and inquiries for additional
information.
Betty K. Mansfield
Task leader, Human Genome Management Information System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
615/576-6669; Fax: 615/574-9888; Email: bkq@ornl.gov
HGMIS World Wide Web URL:
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html
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From: Betty K Mansfield (615)576-6669
Subject: Human Genome News, etc. on WWW at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.genome-program ]
[ Posted on 24 Jan 1995 14:43:29 -0800 ]
Human Genome News, a bimonthly newsletter about the Human Genome Project, is
available through World Wide Web at
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html. Jointly sponsored
by the human genome programs of the National Institutes of Health and U.S.
Department of Energy, HGN includes technical and general interest articles
about progress toward project goals, meeting reports, national and
international project news, bioinformatics and laboratory research
resources, genome event and training calendars, and grant and fellowship
announcements.
Also accessible at the same WWW site are occasional in-depth meeting
reports, a list of chromosome-mapping editors, contact information for NIH
and DOE project staff, information on genome centers, selected genome
resources, DOE human genome program reports, a link to the DOE genetics
primer, and pointers to other sites relevant to molecular biology research,
including the home pages of the DOE Human Genome Program and NIH.
For a hard copy subscription to HGN, fill out the form on the WWW server or
contact Betty Mansfield at Human Genome Management Information System; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory; 1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480; Oak Ridge, TN 37830
(615/576-6669, Fax: /574-9888, Internet: mansfieldbk@ornl.gov).
HGN is also available on the Johns Hopkins Gopher at gopher.gdb.org
HGMIS staff welcomes suggestions and inquiries for additional
information.
Betty K. Mansfield
Task leader, Human Genome Management Information System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1060 Commerce Park, MS 6480
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
615/576-6669; Fax: 615/574-9888; Email: bkq@ornl.gov
HGMIS World Wide Web URL:
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html
From owner-www@net.bio.net Thu Jan 26 22:00:00 1995
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From: BIOSCI Administrator
Subject: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - BIOSCI/bionet WWW HOME PAGE
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I am please to announce the availability of the BIOSCI/bionet
newsgroups World Wide Web home page at URL
http://www.bio.net/
The BIOSCI home page will also be mirrored at our Daresbury site in
the near future.
The home page currently provides easy access to BIOSCI documentation
and another route (besides FTP, WAIS, and gopher) into the
BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup archives, journal Table of Contents index, and
our indexed address database of biologists on the network (currently
over 5,200 entries). Other services will be added to the Web page in
the future, not the least of which will be access to pictures of the
BIOSCI staff (flamers, take note! - suitable for framing on your dart
board or for use in other amusements 8-) ... perhaps we should start a
"Biologists' Network Hall of Flame" 8-).
Please address comments/suggestions to biosci-help@net.bio.net.
Sincerely,
Dave Kristofferson
BIOSCI/bionet Manager
biosci-help@net.bio.net
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From: Leon Avery
Subject: WBG 13(5)
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.celegans ]
[ Posted on 25 Jan 1995 16:06:09 -0800 ]
The Table of Contents of the February 1, 1995 issue of the Worm
Breeder's Gazette is now available on the CGC gopher server
(elegans.cbs.umn.edu) and Avery Lab WWW server
(http://eatworms.swmed.edu/). The text of 37 articles submitted by
e-mail (from a total of 84) is also available at the WWW site. There
is even one article that was submitted by e-mail but not on paper! The
text is also available as a single compressed file. (Use the "Load To
Local Disk" option of your WWW browser.)
--
Leon Avery (214) 648-2420 (office)
Department of Biochemistry -2768 (lab)
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center -8856 (fax)
5323 Harry Hines Blvd leon@eatworms.swmed.edu
Dallas, TX 75235-9038 http://eatworms.swmed.edu/~leon/
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From: "Victor V. Solovyev"
Subject: Local URL for WWW GeneFinder and sec.str.pred. was posted
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Please, use WWW BCM Human Genome Center and Search launcher
Home page
URL:http://kiwi.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu:8088/search-launcher/launcher.html
for accsess to Gene-Finder and Secondary structure prediction
Help files and programs.
Thank you, Victor Solovyev
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From: FlyBase Project Members
Subject: More FlyBase URLs for Linking
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At the beginning of last week we announced the URL for the FlyBase
home page on the World Wide Web. The purpose of this followup
announcement is to provide others maintaining their own WWW pages with
two additional URL's that help them set up hyperlinks to FlyBase.
As previously announced, the main URL for the FlyBase home page is
http://morgan.harvard.edu/
There are two additional kinds of URLs already in place that WWW
page maintainers may find useful to link to. If you would like assistance
in setting up links to these sorts of URL's for FlyBase, please email us
at flybase-help@morgan.harvard.edu. If you would like to use types of
links not described here, send us email; there are many other sorts of
public links we could provide if there are database and WWW page maintainers
who would make use of them.
The first URL is a link to the script that returns fully hyperlinked
FlyBase gene reports:
http://morgan.harvard.edu/htbin-post/gene.script?
You can link to this script with either a correctly capitalized FlyBase
gene symbol or FBgn number (FlyBase gene number) for that gene. For
example the Drosophila gene that currently has the symbol Adf1 has been
assigned the permanent FlyBase gene number FBgn0000054, so you can link
to it using the URL:
http://morgan.harvard.edu/htbin-post/gene.script?FBgn0000054
We do not encourage you to use the gene symbol to link to the gene,
since gene symbols are subject to change for a variety of reasons, such
as when two or more groups of alleles are discovered to be alleles of one
and the same gene.
You can see examples of such interdatabase links using FlyBase gene
numbers in action by selecting a Drosphila SWISS-PROT entry on the ExPASy
Molecular Biology Server at URL
http://expasy.hcuge.ch/
The second FlyBase link of interest is the URL for the gopher+
capable relay to the top of the FlyBase gopher server:
http://morgan.harvard.edu/htbin-post/flybase?top/
If you wish, you can link to one of the top-level FlyBase
gopher directories by naming it. To get to the stocks directory, use
http://morgan.harvard.edu/htbin-post/flybase?top?stocks
You can even name locations in deeper directories, such as
http://morgan.harvard.edu/htbin-post/flybase?top?stocks/stock-centers/bloomington
but we recommend against this practice, since it is not unusual for
details of the directory names and organization to change from time
to time.
Finally, it should be mentioned for anyone putting FlyBase URLs in
their hotlists or setting up FlyBase WWW links that you should not rely
on the more detailed URLs continuing to work. The simple forms
recommended here will be supported, but we can make no promises that URLs
that list several directory levels will be.
Please let us know if you link to any of the FlyBase URLs and
send reports of any problems you encounter in doing so to
flybase-help@morgan.harvard.edu
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From: Georg Fuellen
Subject: WANTED: Consulting Students and Instructors for Internet Biocomputing Course !!
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If you're interested in the Internet Biocomputing Course,
as a student or online instructor, please read on !!
A similar message has just been sent to all people who have
already expressed an interest in attending the course in Summer 1995.
You are invited to join.
>>>>
Dear Prospective Student,
Dear Collaborator,
Our effort has made good progress, which you can examine by pointing
your hypertext browser to our homepage,
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/BCChome.html
[[ Our US mirror is
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/user/f/u/fuellen/News/Ga/REM/Gna/BCChome.html
Please visit our homepage before sending inquiries; we're currently busy with
writing the hypertext book, and a response may take some time. ]]
You may wish to subscribe yourself to our moderated (ca. 5 posts/YEAR)
"Biocomputing Course Updates" mailing list, by sending a message to
majordomo@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de, with no subject line, and the following
message body:
subscribe vsns-bcd-updates
You will be subscribed to a minimum traffic mailing list that keeps you
informed about our progress, e.g. the availability of our hypertext book,
and the beginning of student registration.
We are now looking for "Consulting Students", i.e. students who are
guaranteed admission in return for helping us in technical and administrative
matters. If you're seriously interested in any of these "jobs", please
contact the course coordinator, vsns-bcd-admcoord@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
(Georg Fuellen) as soon as possible !
Enrollment into the course may be limited to ca. 30 students (depending
on the availability of instructors), so this is your excellent chance
for getting a free ticket to an exciting, cutting-edge learning
experience in biocomputing ! If you'd like to attend, but you feel
that none of the following jobs suits you, pls keep watching our homepage,
and/or subscribe yourself to our moderated "Prospective Students" mailing list,
by sending a message to majordomo@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de,
with no subject line, and the following message body:
subscribe vsns-bcd-prospective
You will be subscribed to a moderated mailing list that keeps you informed
about new "job" opportunities, questionaires, and the beginning of registration.
See below for "Advanced Jobs" (e.g. Instructor), our DISCLAIMER, and our
GNA Course Catalog entry.
"Consulting Student" Jobs
=========================
=========================
"Job" #BCD-95-04
"MOO programmer" (2-3 positions)
================================
You will modify and enhance the VSNS-PPS electronic classroom at BioMOO,
developing a classroom suitable for our course. Note: MOO programming is
nothing sophisticated ! Even High-School teens with some experience in Pascal
(or some other structured programming language) have learned it in a few
weeks.
You need: MOO experience. You can attend a MOO programming course
for free, if you do not yet have MOO programming experience.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your
understanding of Biocomputing, and MOO coding.
"Job" #BCD-95-11
"Mirroring Coordinator"
=======================
You will take care of the proper mirroring of our course material (Hypertext
tree). You will work together with the system administrators of various
WWW-sites that have offered to mirror the course material.
See http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/Book/mirroring.html
for more details.
You need: HTML/http experience. Forms/CGI experience useful.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". You will learn a lot about hypertext from the server side.
"Job" #BCD-95-12
"External Resource Manager"
===========================
You will take care that the external resources used by our course
are stable. To this end, a letter shall be sent to all people who offer
resources that shall be used by our course. You will start with the resources
mentioned in our Master Outline (see homepage). If authors add external
resources, they will ask you to deal with these new resources in the same way.
In a few cases, you may need to track down the maintainer of a page, in order
to email him/her.
You're encouraged to discover useful resources on your own !!
See http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/Book/externRes.html
for more details.
You need: WWW/Internet experience.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". You will learn a lot more about Internet/WWW.
"Job" #BCD-95-05
"Question Authority"
====================
More info: You will be the first person to talk to if students or
other people have questions of a technical or administrative matter.
You will forward the more difficult questions to specialized mailing
lists, or the course coordinator.
You need: Good communication skills, willingness to get a good overview
about what's going on in the course, and to use the MOO.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your
understanding of Online Distance Education.
"Job" #BCD-95-01
"Assistance with HTML document preparation I"
=============================================
More info: You will assist one of our authors to translate
documents perepared via PC based MS Word 6.2 to HTML. You may need
to find and install an automatic conversion program.
Alternatively, if the author agrees, you will introduce him
to writing simple HTML, and take care of more complex features (equations,
tables etc) yourself.
You need: Knowledge of HTML, and (likely) MS Word 6.2.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Your assistance will be acknowledged in the foreword
of the hypertext book, and possibly CD-ROM.
"Job" #BCD-95-02
"Assistance with HTML document preparation II"
==============================================
More info: Similar to "Assistance with HTML document preparation I",
but you need some experience w/ LaTex, instead of MS Word 6.2.
"Job" #BCD-95-06
"Glossary curator and administrator"
====================================
More info: see Newsletter Vol.1 No.2, available via our homepage.
You will use technology prepared for Peter Murray-Rust's Protein Structure
course, in order to generate and maintain a hypertext glossary of
Biocomputing terms. Most/All entries will be provided by the authors.
You need: Knowledge of HTML.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your
understanding of Biocomputing.
"Job" #BCD-95-07
"Development and Evaluation of questionaires sent to all students"
===================================================================
More info: In cooperation with the organizers, you will
develop an email (or, possibly, HTML-Forms-based)
questionaire to be sent to all prospective students. It will aid
the registration process, and tell the authors/instructors more
about the skills and needs of the students. You will report your findings
to the Faculty. Possibly, you will also organize mid-term and final
questionaires.
You need: Knowledge of HTML helpful.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your
understanding of Online Distance Education, and Biocomputing.
"Job" #BCD-95-08
"Development of Self-Assessment Forms" (2-3 positions)
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More info: You will use technology prepared for Peter Murray-Rust's
Protein Structure course, in order to generate and maintain Self-Assessment
Forms for the other students.
You need: Knowledge of HTML.
Your benefit: You are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". Large part of your work helps you directly in your
understanding of Biocomputing.
Advanced Jobs
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"Job" #BCD-95-09
"Instruction May-July 1995, ca. 11 weeks." (2-6 positions)
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Instructors are still needed. See our homepage for details, and get in
contact with fuellen@dali.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Georg Fuellen).
See our Mission Statement, paragraph "2.", for further details about the
instructor's job. (The Mission Statement is available via our homepage.)
"Job" #BCD-95-10
"Organize On-line Plenary Discussions at BioMOO"
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More info: Via usenet/bionet and BioMOO, you will solicit
(self-)nominations of possible participants in the discussions
about Standards, Ethics, and the "Future of Biocomputing"
(for more details, see the end of the Unified Master Outline,
which is available via our homepage).
For the "Standards" and "Ethics" discussions,
you will look for author(s) of a rather short preperatory
document, which shall also be included into our hypertext book.
You will report to the faculty a list of suggestions for
possible attendies. You will not bear any responsibility for the
outcome of the discussions :-)
You will organize date & time of the plenary discussion.
You may need to train some attendies in using the MOO.
You need: Good communication skills, good overview about the
course, willingness to use the MOO. HTML helpful.
Your benefit: If you like, you are admitted to the course as a "Consulting
Student". This job is also a perfect way of getting into contact with
lots of interesting ppl.
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Our disclaimer:
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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE GLOBEWIDE NETWORK ACADEMY, THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL OF NATURAL
SCIENCES, BIOMOO, OR ANY OTHER PARTICIPATING VOLUNTEER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY
FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE PARTICIPATION IN THIS CLASS, AND/OR OUT OF THE USE OF THE
INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS CLASS, EVEN IF THE GLOBEWIDE NETWORK ACADEMY,
THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, BIOMOO, OR ANY OTHER
PARTICIPATING VOLUNTEER HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
THE GLOBEWIDE NETWORK ACADEMY, THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, BIOMOO,
AND ANY OTHER PARTICIPATING VOLUNTEER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE CLASS PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN
"AS IS" BASIS, AND THERE IS NO OBLIGATION WHATSOEVER TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCEE,
SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
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GNA course catalog entry:
Biocomputing I: Sequence Analysis
Georg Fuellen (coordinator), M.Sc. (MIT, 1994),
Diplom-Informatiker (Saarbruecken, 1992).
For up-to-date information, and to obtain a list of
all collaborators, please use a www/hypertext browser
(e.g. Mosaic, Lynx) to visit
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/BCChome.html
or
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/user/f/u/fuellen/News/Ga/REM/Gna/BCChome.html
Graduate students and students close to the completion of their
undergraduate studies shall be given a profound introduction into
biosequence analysis and comparison. Instructors shall guide them through
a peer-reviewed hypertext book, by means of weekly online discussion
sessions, supplemented by homework, personal advice, mailing list
discussions, and project work.
The core units shall cover Pairwise Alignment, Networking, Multiple
Alignment, Mathematical Analysis of Sequence Data, Alignment and
Phylogenetic Trees, and Pattern Matching on Biosequences. Units about Protein
Design, Ethics and Software Issues, shall provide basic introductions
into related areas.
Sponsors: VSNS, Research Center for Studies on Structure Formation
and Research Group Practical Informatics (University of Bielefeld)
Instructor's email address: (PLEASE VISIT OUR HOMEPAGE FIRST !)
vsns-bcd-admcoord@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Schedule: Regular intervals throughout the week (to be announced)
~10 weeks, expected to start in May 1995.
Location: BioMOO (telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888)
Level: late undergraduate (senior) or early graduate
Credits: None.
Language of Instruction: English
Status: teachers wanted, under construction (registration is scheduled
for early Spring 1995.)
Requirements: Technical: telnet, www/hypertext browser supporting
black&white graphics, and Forms. Academic: undergraduate level maths
experience, computer science and/or molecular biology. More details will be
announced on our www/hypertext homepage. Some read-only tutorial
material (e.g. in chemistry, biochemistry) might be offered to
bring students to a common starting point.
--
kindest regards,
georg
fuellen@dali.Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
fuellen@MIT.EDU fuellen@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Dr Stephen R Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Habit #3:
Put First Things First !