From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 05 22:00:00 1996
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From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator)
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Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update!
Date: 6 Mar 1996 02:02:00 -0800
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I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to
bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of
concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for
taking the time to read this message carefully.
Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public
Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF
grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting
contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages
solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships
until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then
cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up.
(The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the
problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads
have been displayed for a period of time.) We have three sponsors to
date with a couple more pending. The process is time-consuming,
however, and we need your help as explained further below.
Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines,
hardware maintenance (we hope to have new and faster hardware soon!),
plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical
support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and
administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually
find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the
BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they
do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and
"vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time
that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three
part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have
full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep
this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are
subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project
defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income.
Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last
year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface
to the system. This was released last December along with scores of
WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete,
although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your
helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS
indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over
100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause
greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to
fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience,
but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to
reduce labor as compared to past requirements.
We have also implemented new software to make moderation of
BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of
Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are
now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example,
made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our
EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial
concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit
candidates for positions in the biological sciences.
We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual
newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited
http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet
newsgroups" recently.
So, how can you help??
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As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors
if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can
do two important things which will take very little time for you
individually.
First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the
archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser.
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.
Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional
sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended
below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources
can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many
of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small
communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted
yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers,
it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these
sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller
sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to
keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not
trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all
possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing
lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals.
I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us,
you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource
available for all of the both large and small research communities
that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and
compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF
when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this
mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will
succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you
very much!
Sincerely,
Dave Kristofferson
BIOSCI/bionet Manager
biosci-help@net.bio.net
A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Statistics are
for the four week period from 22 Jan. - 18 Feb. 1996 and usage
continues to grow.
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The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close
to 5000 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the
Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual
can connect to us from a particular host.
Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100
unique hosts per week
Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html,
visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week
BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html,
visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week.
EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/
and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 600 unique hosts
per week.
Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html,
visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week.
Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS-
REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350
unique hosts per week.
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From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Thu Mar 07 22:00:00 1996
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From: rodrigo.lopez@biotek.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank,no.marked.jobb,uio.marked,de.markt.arbeit.gesuche,embnet.general
Subject: Bioinformatics Systems Manager
Date: 7 Mar 1996 22:31:16 -0800
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At the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo (BiO), a centre for research and teaching
in molecular biology and molecular genetics under the University of Oslo a
position as Administrator and Manager of The Norwegian EMBnet node is vacant.
DESCRIPTION
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo is located at the Research Park in Oslo
(Forskninsgparken). It was created by the University of Oslo in 1988 and
consists of 5 research groups (ca. 90 people) involved in research and
teaching in molecular biology, molecular genetics and biochemistry.
The BiO hosts the Norwegian EMBnet node, a national bioinformatics service
which counts today more than 300 users from national universities, colleges,
hospitals and governmental agencies. The main task of the EMBnet manager
consists in running, maintaining and further developing the present service
which is based around SGI (Silicon Graphics) computers. The specific tasks
assigned to the node manager are:
o User support and training
o System administration and maintenenace
o Work as a bioinformatics consultant
The EMBnet node manager will be in charge of developing and keeping together
the bioinformatics group at the BiO in collaboration with the University
Centre of Information Technology (USIT) and personalities from the EMBnet and
the EMBL-EBI.
FINANCIAL DETAILS
The salary is negotiable depending on qualifications.
APPLICATION
An application together with a CV should be sent to:
Professor Hans Prydz
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo
Gaustadalleen 21
0371 Oslo
Norway
Fax: +47 22694130
e-mail: hans.prydz@biotek.uio.no
FURTHER DETAILS
To obtain further details please check out the pages in the following URL:
http://www.no.embnet.org/
The BiO is an equal opportunity employer.
From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Thu Mar 14 22:00:00 1996
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Path: biosci!daresbury!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!ebi.ac.uk!stoehr
From: stoehr@ebi.ac.uk (Peter Stoehr)
Subject: EMBL Release 46 available
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Release 46 (March 1996) of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database is ready
and available via anonymous FTP, email, and FASTA EBI network servers.
As a result of the new release, on Monday March 18 the cumulative update file
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/new/cumulative.dat.Z will become smaller
and only contain data created after release 46 was built (28.2.96).
Below are some abstracts some the release notes. The fuller version is
available in ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/relnotes.doc
For those installing the new release into software systems such as GCG or SRS,
please note that there is an extra file EST5.DAT to deal with.
Regards,
Peter Stoehr
EMBL - EBI
----- EXCERPT FROM RELEASE NOTES ----------------------------------------------
1 RELEASE 46
The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database was frozen to make Release 46 on the 28th
February 1996. The release contains 701,246 sequence entries comprising
473,691,480 nucleotides. This represents an increase of about 11% over Release
45. A breakdown of Release 46 by taxonomic division is shown below:
Division Entries Nucleotides
----------------- ------- ------------
Bacteriophage 1155 1709794
ESTs 435315 151738729
Fungi 11202 29461528
Invertebrates 17455 52142164
Organelles 12692 13268750
Other Mammals 7724 8325527
Other Vertebrates 9019 10225112
Plants 14411 18129030
Primates 55763 52673518
Prokaryotes 28771 51378771
Rodents 28678 32367952
STSs 25900 8584341
Synthetic 11290 5473089
Unclassified 12226 5776683
Viruses 29645 32436492
----------------- ------- ------------
Total 701246 473691480
plus:
Other patents 3165 348946
----------------- ------- ------------
Grand Total 704411 474040426
1.1 Database Cross-references
At the previous release we introduced a new feature table qualifier "/db_xref"
to represent cross-references to external databases. This qualifier is valid,
but optional, for all feature keys. There are two components to the
cross-reference value, the name of the database and the identifier within that
database being referenced, formatted as follows:
/db_xref="database:identifier"
In this release, we have included cross-references using the "/db_xref" on CDS
features to the FLYBASE Drosophila database.
A cross-reference from a CDS feature to the database "FLYBASE" indicates that
this feature corresponds to the entity (eg gene name) in the FLYBASE database
with the given identifier, eg.
/db_xref="FLYBASE:FBgn0012052"
1.2 EST Database Files
In order to keep the size of the data files within reasonable limits for
handling purposes, we have split the EST division into several files. At this
release we have created a fifth file of EST data named EST5.DAT. Additional
files will be added in subsequent releases as appropriate.
2 FORTHCOMING CHANGES
2.1 Separation Of Human Sequence Data
At the next release (Release 47, June 1996) we intend to introduce a new
database division HUM for human (non-EST/STS/organelle) data. The primate (PRI)
division will be withdrawn and the small remainder of the primate sequence data
(circa 3000 sequences) will be merged with the other mammal (MAM) division.
We expect the volume of human data to increase dramatically in the next few
years. In order to keep database files at a manageable size, we will split the
HUM division into several database files, named HUM1.DAT, HUM2.DAT etc.. We
will add further database files in subsequent releases as appropriate.
2.2 *IMPORTANT* Notice Of Accession Number Format Change
Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaborative Agreement, 31 May 1995
Currently, accession numbers used by the nucleotide sequence databases consist
of one prefix letter followed by 5 digits. EST projects and projects to add
patent data have accelerated the need to extend the accession number space. It
is projected that the databases will run out of accession numbers within 8 to 10
months.
It is clear that:
* As much notice as possible should be given to users and software developers
* The change should make a large enough space that another change will not
be necessary in the foreseeable future.
* The accession number should continue to be readily identifiable as a
DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accession number.
The collaborators concluded that:
* A new form of accession number will be created, defined as an
8-character alphanumeric string, beginning with two upper case
letters and followed only by digits (e.g., SR004562). Leading and
trailing zeros are significant. The letter 'O' will not be used.
* Existing 6-character accession numbers will remain as they are, and will
never be transformed to an 8-character form.
* New accession numbers will not be used before February 1, 1996. The groups
agree to avoid using new accession numbers as long as possible after that.
The International Nucleotide Sequence Databases
DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank
2.3 New Nucleic Acid Identifier (NI) Line
We intend to introduce a new line type NI to contain an identifier for each
nucleic acid sequence. While the sequence remains the same, so will the value
of this identifier. When a sequence change occurs, however minor, a new NI
value will be assigned whilst the accession number on the AC line may remain
unchanged. These NI values are analagous to those to be represented in the NID
lines of GenBank entries, and we will inherit GenBank NID values into our NI
lines. Starting at release 47 (June 1996), each entry will have an NI line of
the form:
AC U35111;
XX
NI g1006834
2.4 Taxonomy
The NCBI have recently put significant effort into a project 'Taxon' to create a
taxonomy database which reflects current phylogenetic knowledge. It is a
sequence-based taxonomy as much as possible, and based on published authorities
wherever possible. Taxon is being maintained by three NCBI scientists and
curated by a panel of established evolutionary molecular biologists.
We will incorporate this taxonomy into our database at an opportune moment in
the coming months, when a few operational details are resolved. At that time,
the OC lines of all entries will reflect the revised taxonomic classification.
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From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Tue Mar 26 22:00:00 1996
Path: biosci!NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV!francis
From: francis@NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank
Subject: Re: PID html links
Date: 27 Mar 1996 05:54:28 -0800
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> From: staffan@biochem.kth.se (Staffan Bergh)
> Subject: PID html links
> having just finished the latest release of MycDB, and working on
> enhancing the webserver, I looked for a way of providing hot links to
> PID entries in the e-series (produced by EMBL), and couldn't find any.
> For the g-series (produced by NCBI) it appears that one can use the
> Entrez links using the g-number with the leading letter stripped off
> (thus for PID g886302 use:
>
> http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=p&form=6&uid=886302&Dopt=r
yes, the above is correct, and the various report formats are
available. Above you chose 'Dopt=r', and the following are available:
For protein entries, it can be :
'g' GenPept format
'r' Report format
'f' FASTA format
'a' ASN.1 format
'd' Entrez document summary format
'm' MEDLINE links
'p' protein neighbors
'n' nucleotide links
't' structure links
> with db set to either n or p, which seems a bit counterintuitive, it
> returns the aa sequence in both cases ...)
Well, doing the URL you describe above does not return anything if the
db=n, but does return the report you want with db=p, because the gi
number (PID) is that of a protein. The gi for the corresponding nucleotide
(after looking for it) is:
LOCUS MSGDNAB 40571 bp DNA BCT 30-JUN-1995
DEFINITION Mycobacterium leprae cosmid L222 DNA sequence, 27 CDS features.
ACCESSION L39923
NID g886301
^^^^^^
so the URL link to this GenBank format report would be:
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=n&form=6&uid=886301&Dopt=r
And in there you would also have the lonks to all the proteins within.
> Is access to EMBL PID entries possible, or planned? This would be
> very helpful ...
I will let one of my EMBL colleagues answer this one ...
> Is it true that all NCBI PID entries are accessible through the
> Entrez server in the way shown above?
yes, this is true. The info on how to link all records in the
nucleotide, protein sequences, as well as PDB structures, Medline
references and soon graphical views of maps present in the genomes
division of Entrez are outlined in this URL:
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/linking.html
> Am I missing something here? Is there some information on PID on the
> 'Net, other than the brief mentions I've already found in the EMBL
> and GenBank release notes?
We have been using PID's for a few years now, but we've only recently
called them that, they really are our 'gi' number, which identify uniq
protein or DNA sequences. They are called NID in the GenBank flat
file, eg:
NID g886301
and follow the same rule as the PID, in that the prefix indicates
which database issued the number (you can also see the db_xref
page at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/collab/db_xref.html
which describes this a _bit_ more, ever so slightly, but a place to see
about all the other db_xref which are possible, albeit not fully used
at this time)
So the gi numbers are discussed a bit in the gbrel.txt (GenBank release
notes), but I think I have to agree with Staffan, there is not much
discussion of these in a ingle document.
I think we may have to do this soon, as they are somewhat central to
the the whole tracking we do here!
thank you for your suggestion here!
all the best,
francis
--
| B.F. Francis Ouellette
| GenBank
|
| francis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
> Staffan Bergh
> Biochemistry, KTH, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
>
> email: staffan@biochem.kth.se + Don't let that horse eat that violin
> phone: int+46 8 790 9230 + cried Chagall's mother
> fax: int+46 8 24 54 52 + but he kept right on painting
> + -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
>
> Webmaster and
> MycDB maintainer
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From: staffan@biochem.kth.se (Staffan Bergh)
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Subject: PID html links
Date: 27 Mar 1996 12:55:12 +0100
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Summary: providing hot linking to PID entries
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Hi,
having just finished the latest release of MycDB, and working on enhancing the
webserver, I looked for a way of providing hot links to PID entries in the
e-series (produced by EMBL), and couldn't find any. For the g-series (produced
by NCBI) it appears that one can use the Entrez links using the g-number with the leading letter
stripped off (thus for PID g886302 use:
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=p&form=6&uid=886302&Dopt=r
with db set to either n or p, which seems a bit counterintuitive, it returns
the aa sequence in both cases ...)
Questions:
Is access to EMBL PID entries possible, or planned? This would
be very helpful ...
Is it true that all NCBI PID entries are accessible through the Entrez server
in the way shown above?
Am I missing something here? Is there some information on PID on the 'Net,
other than the brief mentions I've already found in the EMBL and GenBank
release notes?
Cheers /staffan
Staffan Bergh
Biochemistry, KTH, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
email: staffan@biochem.kth.se + Don't let that horse eat that violin
phone: int+46 8 790 9230 + cried Chagall's mother
fax: int+46 8 24 54 52 + but he kept right on painting
+ -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Webmaster and
MycDB maintainer
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From: Marcella Madrid
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank
Subject: Supercomputing Techniques Workshop
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:51:20 -0500
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is offering a new kind of
supercomputing techniques workshop for biomedical researchers this May.
We invite you to review the description below and consider returning an
application for it.
If you have any questions, please contact
Nancy Blankenstein
Biomedical Assistant
biomed@psc.edu
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SUPERCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
May 5-9, 1996
This newly developed Supercomputing Techniques workshop is aimed at
researchers who want to determine if they need supercomputing resources
to solve their biomedical research problem(s). It differs from both the
Biomedical Applications workshops, which focus on science, and other PSC
Techniques workshops, which focus on programming details. The emphasis here
will be on practical concepts and assumes no prior supercomputing experience.
Applicants should have a working knowledge of either Fortran or C.
Participants will learn what resources are potentially available to them
through PSC's Biomedical Initiative, including hardware, software and PSC
staff expertise. By participating in this course, you should be able to
answer the following questions as they pertain to your research computing
needs:
How can my application benefit from supercomputing? What must I
examine to determine this?
Is my application massively parallel in nature? Is it more vector
oriented?
Should I consider a heterogeneous solution involving both vector and
massively parallel machines?
Are there ways to restructure my application to get more computing
power out of the machines already at my disposal?
How much effort would be involved to accomplish the necessary
modifications, and what are the potential payoffs? Is it worth
pursuing at this time?
Where do I go from here?
The workshop will include informal discussion times to encourage participants
to collaborate with one another as well as PSC researchers and scientific
support staff. A panel discussion will be held on the final day to further
promote discussions between participants and members of the Biomedical
Supercomputing Initiative.
This workshop is NOT intended to provide detailed information on the use
of any one computer system. Other techniques workshops are available
that address the details of programming either the C90 or the T3D.
Expenses/Registration Fees:
Researchers affiliated with a U.S. academic institutions will have
their hotel accommodations paid and receive complimentary breakfasts
and lunches the days of the workshop. No registration fee will be
charged but participants are responsible for all other expenditures
connected with attending the workshop, i.e., travel, meals
outside the workshop, ground transportation, parking, etc.
A few openings may be available for government and industrial
researchers:
U.S. Government researchers will be charged a registration fee to
cover their documentation and workshop meals. They will be
responsible for all expenses incurred in travel, accommodations,
other meals, etc.
Industrial researchers will be charged a registration fee to
cover their service units, documentation and the workshop meals.
They are responsible for all expenses incurred in travel,
accommodations, other meals, etc.
This program is sponsored by a National Institutes of Health grant.
Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
Deadline for applications: April 5, 1996
A tentative agenda and an on-line application are below.
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SUPERCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS
May 5-9, 1996
TENTATIVE AGENDA
Sunday: May 5, 1996
Introduction to PSC and
the Biomedical Supercomputing Initiative
Introduction to PSC Environment (Interactive)
Optional computer lab time (each evening of the workshop)
Monday: May 6, 1996
Introduction to Supercomputing
Parallel Computing Concepts and Hardware
C90 and T3D Architecture Overview
Parallel Computing Paradigms
Tuesday: May 6, 1996
PVM Basics
MPI Basics
Heterogeneous Computing
Westinghouse Tour
Wednesday: May 7, 1996
Performance Monitoring
Optimization Techniques
Practical Considerations
Thursday: May 8, 1996
Heterogeneous Scientific Applications
Panel Discussion
Collaborations/Optional Lab Time
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PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
BIOMEDICAL INITIATIVE
SUPERCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS
May 5-9, 1996
APPLICATION
Name: ______________________________________________________________
Affiliation: ______________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________
(Business)
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
(Home)
______________________________________________________________
Telephone: ____________________________ ____________________________
(Business) (Home)
*Social Security Number: _______-_____-_______ Citizenship:_________________
Electronic Mail Address:_____________________________________________________
Status: ___Graduate ___Post-doctoral Fellow ___Faculty ___Other (specify)
Please indicate specifically any special housing, transportation or dietary
arrangements you will need: ________________________________________________
How did you learn about this workshop:_________________________________________
REQUIREMENTS:
Applicants must submit a completed application form and a cover letter. The
letter should describe, in one or two paragraphs, your current research, and
how participating in the workshop will enhance this research. Please include
a brief statement describing your level of experience with computers and with
FORTRAN or C programming language. Faculty members, staff and post-docs
should provide a curriculum vitae. Graduate students must have a letter of
recommendation from a faculty member.
Please return all application materials by April 5, 1996 to:
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From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Fri Mar 29 22:00:00 1996
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From: stephens@delos.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Philip W. Stephenson)
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Subject: German drug screening, assay, metabolism vendors?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:25:18 GMT
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Hi!
I am looking for reputable suppliers of products for drug screening, drug
metabolism, drug assay, etc. work in Germany. Any comments on companies
you have dealt with, and your level of satisfaction with them would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
--phil