From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 04 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Andrew Miller Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: free medical image 3D visualization software for Windows95/NT Date: 5 Jan 1998 02:01:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 22 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <68qb2n$l24@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hello, Just to let you know there's free medical image 3D visualization software (called NeuroModeller) for the Wintel environment available at: http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/amiller/index.html (version 1.07) http://users.infohouse.com/amiller/home.htm (version 1.06) .... download file size is 640 KB. NeuroModeller is a research effort of Cornell Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery. Sincerely, Andrew Miller, MD amiller@infohouse.com From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 04 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 5 Jan 1998 01:54:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 233 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <68qalj$k64@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! Leave the Subject: line blank, any text on it will be ignored. C) In the body of your message put one or more of the following commands with an "end" command on the last line, e.g., subscribe methods unsubscribe methods end Do NOT put your e-mail address or other text on these lines. The server only allows you to cancel your subscription if the address on your mail header matches the address on our mailing list. Please ask for help at biosci-help@net.bio.net if your address has changed, e.g., if you know you are on the list but the server tells you that you are not a member. Users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asia who use the BIOSCI node at -------------------------------------------------------------------- computer daresbury.ac.uk (also known as dl.ac.uk): ------------------------------------------------- To subscribe and unsubscribe to/from the BIOSCI lists, you need to specify the full USENET newsgroup name with "bionet-news." prepended. The USENET newsgroup names are listed in the BIOSCI Information sheet on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list the USENET newsgroup name is bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts, thus the appropriate commands are sub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts unsub bionet-news.bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts These commands are included in a message addressed to mxt@dl.ac.uk, NOT to the newsgroup mailing addresses. As usual, include the text in the body of the message as text on the Subject: line is ignored. To unsubscribe from all the lists at the UK node, use unsub bionet-news Please note that if the address in the list is different than the one in your mail message header, you will not be able to unsubscribe by this method. If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Tue Jan 06 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "S. Wadman" Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Partners wanted for dev't of new Combinatorial Ch'try method Date: 7 Jan 1998 02:11:07 -0800 Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands Lines: 19 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <68vkbr$t1r@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Solid state carrier method with up to 1 million synthetic pathways or assays per batch with all samples easily & directly identified by flexible marking. No prototype yet, but elegantly simple principle, composed of proven mass production technologies from electronic industry. Functional scale model experiments were successful. Specially suitable for high-volume robotic automation. Cheap consumables, easy reclaim of solid carrier. Method is patented. Industrial partners wanted to pursue further development of method, consumables & equipment. Technical details available under legal non-disclosure agreement. Reactions please to ID-NL, c.o. Mr. B. van der Linden, Fax +31 10 4121282; Tel +31 10 4136333 or Post to Westblaak 43, 3012KD Rotterdam, Netherlands Sipke 5 From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: jygene Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: help Date: 13 Jan 1998 08:20:03 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 4 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <69g47j$qss@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hi, I am searching for a complete marketed "one-step diagnostic kit" list in the field of Medicine(not moleculor biology). If anybody has the info or know a related web page, pls e-mail me. Daniel Karnes From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Mon Jan 12 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "dna-diagnostics.com" Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Re: New DNA Technologies Date: 13 Jan 1998 08:25:59 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 21 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <69g4in$rn4@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Thank you all for your overwhelmingly positive response to our announcement of new DNA Diagnostic technologies. Due to the volume of inquiries, we have compiled a series of FAQ's, to respond to the ajority of your questions. We have posted them on our CyGene web site along with several letters of opinion from professionals who have reviewed the TPA and RFTA patent documents. RFTA opinion lette s will be posted on our AGENDA site shortly. We will respond to all other inquiries as soon as possible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Munzer AGENDA, Inc. http://www.dna-diagnostics.com a.k.a. Advanced Genetic Diagnostic Associates Confirming "Heirlines" Through State of the Art DNA Analysis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Thu Jan 15 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Dave Jensen Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Career Discussion Forum, 1998 - Announcement Date: 16 Jan 1998 05:38:45 -0800 Organization: Search Masters International Lines: 42 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <69nnt5$lpt@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hundreds of career discussion threads have now been archived from 1997 at the Bio Online Career Discussion Forum, accessible at http://www.bio.com/hr/forum/. While all of 1997's posts are still available, 1998 is turning out to be a very busy time for the discussion group. If you haven't yet had a look, you may find it to be a valuable part of your job and career. If you have questions/comments about the world of science or business careers in the Biotechnology or Pharmaceuticals industry, check in with us and either lurk or actively participate. Dozens of networking contacts are initiated every week through the Career Discussion Forum. Regular posters offer advice, ideas, and even engage in the occasional heated argument. In short, it is fun. Bio Online is a full-service biotechnology web site which provides us the space for the Career Discussion Forum as a courtesy. You will find that no commercial blurbs are allowed on the Forum, and that it is a moderated discussion. I hope you'll join us, Dave Jensen Moderator, Bio Online Career Discussion Forum http://www.bio.com/hr/forum/ -- From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Jan 18 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Stuart Harbron Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Antibodies against double-stranded DNA Date: 19 Jan 1998 01:18:43 -0800 Organization: Nildram Ltd Lines: 13 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <69v5pj$b4f@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Does anybody now where I can purchase (monoclonal or polyclonal) antibodies to double-stranded DNA formed between an oilgonucleotide probe and a target nucleic acid? Thanks Stuart Stuart Harbron, PhD Senior Lecturer University of Hertfordshire From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed Jan 21 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Polanco Rodriguez Angel Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Evento Internacional Date: 22 Jan 1998 09:16:06 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 93 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <6a7usm$nb8@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE YUCATAN CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES "Dr. HIDEYO NOGUCHI" INVITA AL: "III CURSO INTERNACIONAL TEORICO - PRACTICO DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR" El laboratorio de Biologia Celular del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", bajo los auspicios de Amersham International PLC., y de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, ofrece un curso Internacional de Biologia Molecular de caracter teorico y practico. El curso esta dirigido a estudiantes de pregrado, posgrado, profesionales del area de la salud, e investigadores de =E1reas afines que tengan inter=E9= s en adquirir conocimientos en tecnicas elementales de biolog=EDa molecular para su aplicacion posterior en diversos campos del desarrollo profesional. Lugar: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, en Merida Yucatan, Mexico. Fecha: Julio 14 a Julio 23 de 1998. Requisitos: conocimientos elementales de biologia molecular e ingles, enviar solicitud de participacion, recibir notificacion de aceptacion por parte del comite de seleccion, pago de inscripcion. Costo: 600 USD que incluye hospedaje (11dias) en base doble, 1 comida al dia, inscripcion al curso, material didactico (manual de practicas), transportacion aeropuerto-hotel-aeropuerto en la ciudad de Merida. Inscripciones: Enviar solicitud de participacion con todos sus datos (direccion, telefono, fax, correo electronico, etc..) dirigida a Jorge Zavala Castro al correo electronico zcastro@tunku.uady.mx, o al Fax (5299) 23.61.20. Fecha limite de inscripcion: 30 de abril de 1998. * Las personas seleccionadas recibiran la notificacion de aceptacion con las instrucciones de deposito. Las personas que utilicen el correo electronico deberan de enviar una copia de todos sus mensajes a Eugenia Guzman Marin correo gmarin@tunku.uady.mx Cupo maximo: 26 personas. PROGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES: El programa incluye: Manejo de DNA.- a) Extraccion de DNA b) Manejo de endonucleasas de restriccion c) Electroforesis d) Transferencia y fijacion del DNA en soportes solidos (Southern blott) e) Marcaje de sondas moleculares f) Hibridacion Manejo de plasmidos.- a) Preparacion de celulas competentes y transformantes b) Purificacion de plasmidos c) Obtencion de los insertos Bancos de cDNA.- a) Infeccion de celulas con fagos b) Replicas en soportes solidos c) Busqueda de clonas positivas con sondas moleculares d) Aislamiento y purificacion de DNA de fagos PCR.- a) Disenho de oligos b) Uso del PCR en Diagnostico c) Estrategias para clonacion de genes a traves de PCR Secuenciacion de acidos nucleicos.- An=E1lisis de proteinas (Western blott).- a) Electroforesis de proteinas b) Transferencia a soportes solidos c) Deteccion de proteinas a traves de anticuerpos Para mayor informacion dirigirse al coordinador del curso: Jorge Zavala-Castro Lab. Biologia Celular. Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi" Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. Av. Itzaes No. 490 x 59 CP 97000 Merida Yucatan, Mexico. Tel. (52)(99) 24.64.12 ext. 120 Fax. (52)(99) 23.61.20 e-mail: zcastro@tunku.uady.mx