From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Sun Sep 06 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Rania Horaitis Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Registration reminder Date: 7 Sep 1998 09:42:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 86 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6s60ar$gd2@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Here is a reminder to those who have not yet registered. This is a group email so you may have registered. Some confirmed speakers are listed below. Hugo Mutation Database Initiative 5th International Meeting Denver, Colorado, USA, 1998 This meeting will be held the day before the Denver meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics- TIME: 8.00am-7.00pm DATE: 27th October 1998 VENUE: Denver Marriot City Centre, Denver Ballroom I/II/III REGISTRATION: Academic & Non-Commercial registrants-US$85 Commercial registrants:-US$150 Lunch is included. ORGANISERS: R. Horaitis, R.G.H. Cotton (Australia) REGISTRATION: Fill in attached form and return. If you cannot open attachment, form is available on our website. Contact R. Horaitis Email: horaitis@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au Fax: 61-3-9288-2988 WEBSITE: http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:80/~cotton/mut_database.htm In association with the annual meeting of the ASHG (American Society of Human Genetics), the HUGO Mutation Database Initiative is hosting its 5th International Meeting in Denver on the 27th October, 1998. The initiative aims to co-ordinate the collection and distribution of accurate information via the www. In earlier meetings the emphasis was on identifying the issues and hearing of new projects and proposals. Lately, with the two meetings per year and with the ease of electronic publication a one day meeting appears appropriate with talks mainly being working group reports. Some talks however will be invited. It is expected that registrants will take the opportunity to present new databases or ideas as posters. Talks may be invited from these. Anyone interested in this worldwide Initiative is invited to attend. We are charging a registration fee to offset costs and lunch will be included. If you are interested in participating, please fill in the attached registration form below as soon as possible for organisational reasons. Poster entries are to submit abstracts as soon as possible. Sponsorship is invited from those companies interested in mutation databases. Reports from Working Groups- *confirmed speaker Nomenclature Stylianos Antonarakis * Content & Software Charles Scriver * HGMD Michael Krawczak * EBI Heikki Lehvaslaiho * NCBI Steve Sherry OMIM Victor McKusick * Alliance Dick Cotton * Copyright & Intellectual Property Doug Wallace or Michael Brown * SNP/Polymorphism Pui-Yan Kwok or Michael Brown National & Ethnic databases ? * Patient aspects of databases Sue Mize or Chester Whitley * Quality control and peer review Dick Cotton * Spectral databases. Tina Hernandez Scientific Presentations-Oral: * P.S.Harper "The Frequency of Inherited disease database" * C. Beroud "Universal Mutation Database" * R. Hardison "Human Haemoglobin variants" Scientific Presentations-Oral and Poster. To be confirmed Proposals & Plans-Ratification Meeting. *** TO REGISTER: Fill in registration form available on our website- http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:80/~cotton/register.htm and return From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Sep 08 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Combinatorial catalysis etc. Date: 9 Sep 1998 03:15:06 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 46 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6t5j7c$4ka@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The following message, sent to me by John Hewes of NIST, might be of interest to members of this list. He has given me permission to post it. Please contact him directly if you want to follow up on this. Wendy _____________________________________________________________________ I am encouraging industry to start thinking about submitting NIST/Advanced Technology Program competition proposals in the area of combinatorial methodologies applied to catalysis (widely interpreted). The NIST/ATP combinatorial web page url is http://www.atp.nist.gov/www/ccmr/ccmr_off.htm. I will be hosting a one-day workshop on combinatorial chemistry at the ATP "annual convention" in Atlanta November 18. This will feature industry leaders discussing combinatorial chemistry applied to catalysis and its high-risk technology needs. You might like to browse http://www.atp.nist.gov/fallmeeting for more info. ATP does not announce Focused Programs until after funding is approved by Congress in October-November. Again, Proposers should NOT wait until competition announcements to put a proposal/team together! Please do not hesitate to contact me for additional information. Best regards, John Hewes tel :(301) 975-5416 -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Sep 08 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Lindberg, Iris" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: postdoctoral position for enzymologist Date: 9 Sep 1998 02:58:49 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 29 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6t5isr$4be@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Postdoctoral position available any time in 1999 to study the enzymology and cell biology of peptide hormone/neurotransmitter synthesizing enzymes (the eukaryotic subtilisins known as prohormone convertases; see for example Muller et al, J. Cell. Biol. 139, 625-638, 1997; or Zhu et al, J. Biol. Chem. 273, 1158-1164, 1998). Current projects involve transgenic technology (7B2 ko), and/or PC PC inhibitor structure-function analyses. Prefer motivated recent Ph.D. with experience in enzymology and/or neuroendocrinology for this position in med school laboratory in New Orleans, an exciting, low cost-of-living city. Competitive salary w/yearly travel to relevant meetings. If interested, please send your CV and names and phone numbers of three references to: Iris Lindberg, Ph.D. Dept. of Biochem & Mol Biol/Neuroscience Center, LSU Med Ctr 1901 Perdido St New Orleans, LA 70112 email: ilindb@lsumc.edu http://www.lsumc.edu/campus/bioc/Lindberg/Lindberg.htm Iris Lindberg, Professor, Biochem & Mol Biol LSUMC 1901 Perdido St New Orleans LA 70112 phone 504-568-4799 fax 504-568-3370 From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Sep 08 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: lefranc@ligm.igh.cnrs.fr Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: IMGT News - August 1998 Date: 9 Sep 1998 09:18:24 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 62 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6t5p6k$ad2@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Reply-To: lefranc@ligm.igh.cnrs.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleague, Please find below the IMGT NEWS - August 98 announcement. Best Regards Marie-Paule Lefranc ---------- IMGT NEWS - August 1998 - IMGT, http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 "IMGT Scientific Chart - IMGT Repertoire - New Interface" IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database, announces: - IMGT Scientific Chart: A description of IMGT standardized rules to ensure the highest quality data (unique numbering, gene name nomenclature, FR-IMGT and CDR-IMGT regions,...) - IMGT Repertoire: IMGT expertised immunoglobulin and T cell receptor gene tables ("colliers de perles" representations, alignments and tables of alleles, protein displays,...) - a New IMGT/LIGM-DB interface and eight choices to see results (IMGT annotations, IMGT flat files, coding regions with protein translation, external references,...) Also new: - the Mouse (Mus musculus) germline IGKV gene table - IMGT reference sequences in FASTA format, accessible from IMGT Repertoire and from IMGT/DNAPLOT search page, for downloading IMGT is freely accessible at http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 Flash on IMGT: > 27 000 Ig and TcR sequences of 81 species > 26 000 sites connected since 1st of january 96 > 4 000 requests a week IMGT Initiator and coordinator: Prof. Marie-Paule Lefranc Laboratoire d'ImmunoGenetique Moleculaire, LIGM UPR CNRS 1142, IGH, 141 rue de la Cardonille 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France T=E9l. : +33 (0)4 99 61 99 65 - Fax : +33 (0)4 99 61 99 01 lefranc@ligm.igh.cnrs.fr IMGT references : Lefranc M.-P., Immunology Today, 18, 509 (1997) Lefranc M.-P., Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 1-7 (1998) Pallares N. et al., Exp. Clin. Immunogenet., 15, 8-18 (1998) Lefranc M.-P. et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 26, 297-303 (1998) ------------- _____________________________________________ Laboratoire d'ImmunoGenetique Moleculaire, LIGM UPR CNRS 1142, IGH 141 rue de la Cardonille 34396 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Tel: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 65 - Fax: +33 (0)4 99 61 99 01 IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics database http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Sep 14 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: John Porco Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Scientist/Postdoctoral Positions Date: 15 Sep 1998 07:52:35 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 37 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6tltmr$ac7@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Argonaut Technologies is a leading developer of new technologies for automated synthesis and drug discovery, and currently has two positions open in our parallel medicinal chemistry group: SCIENTIST (98-022) and POSTDOCTORAL SCIENTIST (98-018) Responsibilities include research on polymer reagents/ scavengers and utilization of novel instrumentation for parallel synthesis and combinatorial chemistry. You will be demonstrating parallel synthesis, purification, and characterization of organic compounds using both solution and solid phase methods. In addition, you will also develop new methodologies for parallel medicinal chemistry and reaction execution. A Ph.D. in organic chemistry is required. Duration for the postdoctoral appointment is two years. Interested parties should send their resumes to: Argonaut Technologies Attn: Human Resources Job Number (#) 887 Industrial Road, Suite G San Carlos, CA 94070 FAX: 650-598-1359 John A. Porco, Jr. Director, Parallel Medicinal Chemistry Argonaut Technologies 887 Industrial Road, Suite G San Carlos, CA 94070 phone: 650-598-1350 x 213 fax: 650-598-1359 From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Sep 14 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Binghe Wang Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: postdoctoral positions Date: 15 Sep 1998 07:50:19 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 39 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6tlthv$a73@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS:There are three post-doctoral positions available immediately in the general area of medicinal/bioorganic chemistry. The first one will be focused on the synthesis and biological evaluation of targeted drug delivery systems. The second position is on the development of new linkers for solid phase peptide/organic synthesis. The third position is on either the development of new MRI contrast agents or new fluorescent sensors. All positions require strong synthetic skills. A Ph.D. in organic, or medicinal, or bioorganic chemistry is required. If interested, please send a CV and arrange to have three reference letters sent to: Dr. Binghe Wang Department of Chemistry North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8204 (919) 515-2948 (phone) (919) 515-3757 (fax) binghe_wang@ncsu.edu http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chemistry/bw.html ****************************************************************************** Binghe Wang Department of Chemistry 430 Dabney Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8204 Phone (919) 515-2948 fax (919) 515-3757 e-mail: binghe_wang@ncsu.edu Learn more about the Wang group at http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chemistry/bw.html ****************************************************************************** From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Sep 21 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Rich Lysakowski, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Career Opening at CENSA - Senior Member Recruitment Specialist Date: 22 Sep 1998 07:48:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 170 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6u8ccb$8ns@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net CENSA, the Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association is searching for Senior Member Recruitment Specialists to help continue our excellent growth. Our group has developed a successful record of growth over the last 2 =BD years and we are looking for senior people to help us manage and accelerate the growth. Please consider the attached job description and let us know if you want to help us to continue our success. Following is a description of our group, goals, and members. CENSA is the first market development association. CENSA focuses on creating and accelerating markets for "new information automation" for science and technical applications. By "new automation" we mean electronic notebooks and related recordkeeping systems, integrated document management and workflow systems, groupware and information sharing, collaborative computing, and knowledge management systems. CENSA works in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, healthcare, food, beverage, consumer products, high technology, and other industries where government regulations or patents are fundamental to product research, development, and manufacturing. CENSA is comprised of the following Fortune 200 and other organizations: Abbott Laboratories Adobe Systems Boehringer Ingelheim Bristol-Myers Squibb Computer Sciences Corporation Documentum Dow Chemical Company Dow AgroSciences Doxis GlaxoWellcome Monsanto Life Sciences Pfizer Procter and Gamble PSSoftware Purdue Pharmaceuticals Rohm and Haas Company ScriptSafe United States Department of Energy UOP, LLC (an Allied Signal Company) We will announce several new members as soon as we get clearance from them to do so. We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Dr. Rich Lysakowski Executive Director Member Recruitment Specialist (Technical Salesperson) Our exciting leading-edge collaborative programs improve a ns in pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, healthcare, and high technology companies. As our recruitment specialist, you will lead and manage member recruitment and product sales for the company. Your business skills, market insight and knowledge will help drive our work in market development for electronic notebook and recordkeeping systems, collaborative computing systems, scientific software, groupware, document management, Intranets, client/server systems, and application integration tools. Your overall responsibilities will include: =B7 Lead the company's recruitment and product sales efforts =B7 Design and implement programs to attract new members =B7 Manage the sales effort within budget and expense goals You will be responsible for qualifying prospective members, forming relationships and educating them, negotiating contracts and finalizing new memberships. You will be expected to review, approve (and if necessary, improve) all collateral and materials that you will use with prospective members. Prior experience doing consultative sales, solution selling and/or concept selling will serve you well in this job. Process support systems will be provided to assist you. KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS: Familiarity and working knowledge of one or more of the following relevant technologies and products will be helpful to you in this job. The ability to quickly pick up technologies unfamiliar to you is important. =B7 Groupware, document and workflow management, and collaborative computing tools, =B7 World Wide Web and Internet protocols, =B7 Electronic recordkeeping and records management systems and applications, =B7 Middleware and systems integration tools, =B7 Lab automation and robotics, LIMS, instrument interfacing; =B7 Chemical, biological and materials informatics systems from various vendors (e.g., CAS, MDL, Beilstein, Daylight, Synopsis, Oxford Molecular Group, MAG, others) =B7 Combinatorial chemistry, synthesis, and high throughput screening technologies. AVAILABILITY=20 Start immediately. Strong preference given to people already living in the Northeast United States. Must relocate to Boston area. SALARY RANGE: Expected compensation can go over $150K including bonuses if you achieve revenue goals. Actual compensation will depend on the prior experience, qualifications, skills and motivation you bring to the job,. Stock options or other ownership options may be given to the right person with the appropriate level of commitment. WORK DIRECTION: You will work with and under the direction of the Association Executive Director, who indicates general assignments, and priorities. You will be expected to independently perform recurring assignments such as conducting recruitment events, and communicating with current and prospective members and customers. Some administrative support will be available. EDUCATION AND TRAINING: A background in chemical or life sciences or biomedical engineering will be very helpful since we work mainly in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biotech, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, high technology and related industries. A good understanding of R&D, testing lab and office automation and information technology will help you succeed because computing directors and R&D managers in regulated industries are often main points of contact. ASSOCIATION MISSION: Our mission is to catalyze emerging markets and creation of leading-edge technologies that make it easier to discover and develop new products that improve the quality of life. We drive the creation, convergence, effective usage, and continuous improvement of automation technologies and methodologies that facilitate scientific discovery, collaboration, and product development by technical and business professionals. ASSOCIATION PHILOSOPHY: Everyone in our association succeeds best by bringing a fun-loving spirit and a missionary zeal and commitment to delivering leading edge research, engineering, technologies, and business deals. We have fun meeting complex technical and business challenge to our members. We employ bright, young-minded professionals who are highly competent and accomplished in multi-company business and technology development projects. We reward our employees generously and give them appropriate opportunities and challenges to stimulate their professional growth. Our success is measured by how well we delight our members by defining and driving new markets that serve them. We love learning from others, and teaching and mentoring our members and other customers. We transfer the results of our research and engineering work in ways that greatly improve their business operations and make us all members of the association more profitable. CONTACT: Karen Coste, Office Manager Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association 800 West Cummings Park, Suite 5400 Woburn, MA 01801 (781) 935-9600 phone (781) 935-3113 fax e-mail: kcoste@censa.org website: www.censa.org Copyright 1998 - CENSA From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Sep 21 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Hakan Molin Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Positions available - MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY Date: 22 Sep 1998 07:45:17 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 56 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6u8c8v$8m0@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net > RESEARCH SCIENTISTS, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY > The Medicinal Chemistry Department at Astra Pain Control AB is in a phase > of significant expansion. This will provide employment opportunities for > chemists with skills in Organic chemistry/Medicinal chemistry , > Combinatorial chemistry, and Chemoinformatics. > The research is project oriented and the main goal is to design and > synthesize biologically active compounds for the discovery and development > of new and improved drugs for the treatment of pain. > For our laboratories at Novum Research Park, in Huddinge, outside > Stockholm, Sweden we are seeking two candidates. > > RESEARCH SCIENTIST - COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY > The successful candidate will take part in all aspects of the build-up and > development of combinatorial chemistry within the department. Relevant > background is a PhD degree in organic chemistry with experience in the > field. > > RESEARCH SCIENTIST - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY/MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY > The successful candidate will work in a drug discovery project team and > primarily be engaged with the design and synthesis of substances for > biological testing and in the development of synthetic methods. Relevant > background is a PhD degree in organic chemistry or BS/MS degree with 2-5 > additional years of experience in the field. > A pronounced interest in practical synthetic work and in project oriented > teamwork is essential. > > We welcome your application to become a member of a research-intensive > department in a growing international organisation. > > For further information, please contact: > Jan-Erik Nystrom +46-(0)31-7762396 or +46-(0)8 55325439 > jan-erik.nystrom@pain.se.astra.com > or > Alf Claesson +46 - (0)8-553 27174, fax +46 (0)8-553 254 21 > alf.claesson@pain.se.astra.com > > Applications with full details should be sent no later than October 2 > 1998, to the following adress: Astra Pain Control AB, Claes-Gran Persson, > Personnel Support & Information, S-15185 S=F6dert=E4lje, Sweden > > ASTRA is an international, research-based pharmaceutical company with > subsidiaries in some fifty countries.. Every day millions of people all > around the world use pharmaceuticals from Astra. Astra has approximately > 20,000 employees, of whom a third are in Sweden. Sales in 1996 totaled > approximately SEK 39 billion. For more information about Astra, see: > www.astra.com. > > ASTRA PAIN CONTROL AB in S=F6dert=E4lje is a research company belonging to the > Astra Group, with about 300 employees. Our products dominate the world > market for local anaesthetics. Through research and development we create > local anaesthetic and analgesic agents. > > From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Sep 21 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Linda Fei Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Publication News Date: 22 Sep 1998 02:15:18 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 37 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6u7pce$krc@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleagues: Here follows is the Publication News from Syncomm Corp.: Dr. Jianping Qiu's article Protein Expression System has been presented in the August Issue of Genetic Engineering News, overviewing the currant trend in system for protein expression. Anyone who might be interested in recombinant protein engineering and expression may request as electronic copy of this article at linderfei@syncommbdl.com. You are also welcome to discuss any protein expression issues with Dr.Jianping Qiu at jpq@syncommbdl.com Any reques or inquiry about the biotech services are also welcome: 1. Recombinant protein (including human recombinant antibodies) engineering and expression 2. Recombinant protein production 3. Custom construction and biopanning of phage display system. 4. In vitro mutagenesis (see more at hppp://www.syncommbdl.com) Thanks and regards. Linda Fei e-mail: lindafei@syncommbdl.com Linda Fei Marketing Manager Syncomm Corporation 3401 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A. T. 215.387.2811 F. 215.387.2886 E-mail: lindafei@syncommbdl.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Wed Sep 23 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Combinatorial chemistry - materials Date: 24 Sep 1998 04:00:37 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 27 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <6ub8ll$k2q@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The following is an upcoming meeting in the field of combinatorial chemistry for materials science. It is the first major conference I have come across that specializes in this interesting new field. I hope that some of you will be interested. Combinatorial Approaches for New Materials Discovery: Polymers, Catalysis, Electronic Materials January 21-22, 1999, The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA, USA Contact: Kim Takita, The Knowledge Foundation, 101 Merrimac Street, Boston, MA, USA Tel. 617 367 7979 Fax: 617 367 7912 E-mail kmtakita@knowledgefoundation.com WWW http://www.knowledgefoundation.com Apologies for duplicate postings. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Wed Sep 30 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 1 Oct 1998 04:40:52 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 236 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <199809280900.CAA01353@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.