From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Nov 02 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU!mwitten From: mwitten@CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: URGENT: DEADLINE CHANGE FOR WORLD CONGRESS Message-ID: <9311031731.AA07953@morpheus.chpc.utexas.edu> Date: 3 Nov 93 17:31:14 GMT Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 68 UPDATE ON DEADLINES FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 24-28 April 1994 Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin, Texas ----- (Feel Free To Cross Post This Announcement) ---- Due to a confusion in the electronic distribution of the congress announcement and deadlines, as well as incorrect deadlines appearing in a number of society newsletters and journals, we are extending the abstract submission deadline for this congress to 31 December 1993. We apologize to those who were confused over the differing deadline announcements and hope that this change will allow everyone to participate. For congress details: To contact the congress organizers for any reason use any of the following pathways: ELECTRONIC MAIL - compmed94@chpc.utexas.edu FAX (USA) - (512) 471-2445 PHONE (USA) - (512) 471-2472 GOPHER: log into the University of Texas System-CHPC select the Computational Medicine and Allied Health menu choice ANONYMOUS FTP: ftp.chpc.utexas.edu cd /pub/compmed94 (all documents and forms are stored here) POSTAL: Compmed 1994 University of Texas System CHPC Balcones Research Center 10100 Burnet Road, 1.154CMS Austin, Texas 78758-4497 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: Authors must submit 5 copies of a single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly discussing the topic of their presentation. In addition, authors must clearly state their choice of poster, contributed paper, tutorial, exhibit, focused workshop or birds of a feather group along with a discussion of their presentation. Abstracts will be published as part of the preliminary conference material. To notify the congress organizing committee that you would like to participate and to be put on the congress mailing list, please fill out and return the form that follows this announcement. You may use any of the contact methods above. If you wish to organize a contributed paper session, tutorial session, focused workshop, or birds of a feather group, please contact the conference director at mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu . The abstract may be submitted electronically to compmed94@chpc.utexas.edu or by mail or fax. There is no official format. If you need further details, please contact me. Matthew Witten Congress Chair mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Thu Nov 04 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!embl-heidelberg.de!omond From: omond@embl-heidelberg.de (Roy Omond) Newsgroups: bionet.general,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,embnet.general Subject: EMBL FASTA service has a backlog. Message-ID: <1993Nov5.152738.126613@embl-heidelberg.de> Date: 5 Nov 93 14:27:38 GMT Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lines: 16 Xref: biosci bionet.general:6479 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:259 Gentle people, The EMBL FASTA service has quite a large backlog of jobs in its queue. Please be patient and don't expect the usual instantaneous turnround :-) Also, it happens (much too) regularly that users submit jobs with bogus e-mail return addresses (at least 100% of the time due to broken sendmail configurations ... gawd, how I wish that sendmail would be forbidden from this planet). This just goes to exacerbate the situation since the jobs get run and the results bounced when we try to deliver them. *sigh* ... Roy Omond System Manager etc. etc. European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany. From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Nov 24 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!str-ccsun!strath-cs!uknet!pipex!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU!wrp From: wrp@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: bionet.software,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Fasta updates Message-ID: Date: 25 Nov 93 19:56:47 GMT Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 9 Xref: biosci bionet.software:6571 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:260 bionet.molbio.genbank:1453 New versions of the FASTA package of programs are available from "virginia.EDU" in pub/fasta/fasta16c24b.shar(.Z) and pub/fasta/beta/fasta16c31a.shar(.Z). The programs have been belatedly modified to read the current EMBL format and the beta/fasta16c31.shar program has been more extensively tested (and corrected) to work with the NCBI BLASTP/N formats. Bill Pearson From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Sun Nov 28 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU!wrp From: wrp@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.pir,bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Mac FASTA problem Summary: upgrade coming Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 93 02:48:56 GMT Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 28 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.embldatabank:261 FASTA1.6c22m update for the Macintosh Although I thought that I had corrected a problem with the Macintosh version of FASTA reading EMBL and NBRF/ATLAS format CD-ROM files in FASTA1.6c22 last year, apparently I did not. A new version of Mac FASTA (1.6c22m) is being distributed to everyone who has received version 1.6c22 from me. This version works properly with the EMBL and NBRF/ATLAS CD-ROM's. The older version appears to have missed about half of the sequences in the VMS/PIR format. If you have relied on the older version of FASTA, you should definately re-do your searches. In addition, this new version works with the compressed DNA sequence files found on the NBRF/ATLAS CD-ROM in the DATA:FOR folder. The new version also corrects some problems with EMBL format files, and implements a buffering scheme properly that should speed up searches about 80%. I am very very sorry that the Macintosh version of FASTA has had this serious flaw. It is especially frustrating because I thought that it had been fixed a year ago. When using FASTA, or any computer program, you should always make certain that the size of the database scanned is the same as the size of the database specified in the release notes. Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.EDU (804) 924-2818 From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Sun Nov 28 22:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!hubcap!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU!wrp From: wrp@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.pir,bionet.molbio.embldatabank Subject: Mac FASTA problem Summary: upgrade coming Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 93 02:48:56 GMT Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 28 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.embldatabank:262 FASTA1.6c22m update for the Macintosh Although I thought that I had corrected a problem with the Macintosh version of FASTA reading EMBL and NBRF/ATLAS format CD-ROM files in FASTA1.6c22 last year, apparently I did not. A new version of Mac FASTA (1.6c22m) is being distributed to everyone who has received version 1.6c22 from me. This version works properly with the EMBL and NBRF/ATLAS CD-ROM's. The older version appears to have missed about half of the sequences in the VMS/PIR format. If you have relied on the older version of FASTA, you should definately re-do your searches. In addition, this new version works with the compressed DNA sequence files found on the NBRF/ATLAS CD-ROM in the DATA:FOR folder. The new version also corrects some problems with EMBL format files, and implements a buffering scheme properly that should speed up searches about 80%. I am very very sorry that the Macintosh version of FASTA has had this serious flaw. It is especially frustrating because I thought that it had been fixed a year ago. When using FASTA, or any computer program, you should always make certain that the size of the database scanned is the same as the size of the database specified in the release notes. Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.EDU (804) 924-2818