From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Thu Jul 01 07:49:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 1 Jul 1999 01:49:13 -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: <199906280900.CAA02011@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-repertoires@net.bio.net Thu Jul 08 09:02:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Lynn Caporale Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Molecular Stategies in biological evolution Date: 8 Jul 1999 03:02:08 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 11 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I would like to draw your attention to the publication of "Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution", a very interesting and provocative group of papers from a conference on that subject. For your information, the table of contents can be found at: http://www.nyas.org/biological.html Lynn Caporale From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Thu Jul 08 13:41:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Tara Dyson Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Current Opinion in Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Renal Date: 8 Jul 1999 07:41:00 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 60 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ANNOUNCING - CURRENT OPINION IN CARDIOVASCULAR, PULMONARY & RENAL INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS - A NEW REVIEW JOURNAL FREE SAMPLE COPIES AVAILABLE Current Opinion in Cardiovascular, Pulmonary & Renal Investigational Drugs is a new bimonthly review journal published by Current Drugs Ltd, which covers all aspects of cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal investigational drug research. The journal provides a comprehensive and up-to-date source of peer-reviewed information on trends and advances in therapies for cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal diseases. In addition, expert commentaries on the scientific and commercial potential of selected drugs in clinical trials are provided in each issue. Edited by William C Ripka and Annette M Doherty, the journal is designed to combat the proliferation of the scientific literature by giving the reader an intelligent overview of the important developments across the entire subject. The journal contents are divided into six major sections, each of which is reviewed once a year. Antithrombotics and hematological disorders Atherosclerosis/hypercholesterolemia and heart disease Hypertension and renal failure Airway diseases including asthma, allergy and pulmonary hypertension Ischemia and infarction, including stroke and angina Arrhythmia and heart failure Contributions from internationally recognized researchers are all invited and peer-reviewed by an Editorial Board of distinguished members of the scientific community. The views of experts in the form of editorial overviews, review articles, drug evaluations, and annotated paper and patent coverage are contained in each issue. For further information, see the Current Drugs website http://www.current-drugs.com To request your FREE SAMPLE COPY mailto:cocvrsamp@cursci.co.uk and supply us with your name, company, address, telephone number and email details. Kind regards Tara Dyson Editorial Director Current Drugs Ltd Middlesex House 34-42 Cleveland Street London W1P 6LB UK Tel: +44-171-580-8393 Fax: +44-171-580-5646 Email: tara@cursci.co.uk http://www.current-drugs.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Fri Jul 09 11:14:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Steve Heller Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: ChemInt'99 - Complete program now available Date: 9 Jul 1999 05:14:31 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 67 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net The complete program of all lectures and contributed talks for the Chemistry & the Internet meeting is now available. The web site is also now keyword searchable. All of the ChemInt'98 presentations on the web site can be searched. Go to: www.chemint.org This note is to also a reminder that the deadline for poster abstracts submissions for presentations at the ChemInt'99 meeting is September 1. The Chemistry and the Internet (ChemInt'99) meeting being held in at Georgetown University in Washington DC on September 25-27, 1999. The program of invited speakers and panel members of the 3 panel sessions is available on the meeting web site - www.chemint.org You are urged to look at the program and to consider submitting a poster paper to the meeting. The main lecturers for the meeting will be: Alan Arnold, University College (UNSW) Steven Bachrach, Northern Illinois University Robert Bovenschulte, ACS Stephen Boyer, IBM Karl Harrison, Oxford University Clemens Jochum, Deutsche Bank Gary Mallard, NIST Tom Pierce, Rohm & Haas Jerome Reichman, Vanderbilt Achim Zielesny, Bayer AG Steven S. Zumdahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The (current) corporate sponsors for the meeting are: ChemWeb and the Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC) Technical Sponsors are: ACS CINF Division ACS COMP Division The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Georgetown University - Department of Chemistry International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (pending) Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) Special Libraries Association (SLA) Chemistry Division Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Steve Heller Steve Heller, Guest Researcher NIST/SRD, Mail Stop: 820/113 820 Diamond Avenue, Room 101 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2310 USA E-mail: srheller@nist.gov From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Jul 13 11:44:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Jens Lohrmann Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Phosphoramidate Date: 13 Jul 1999 05:44:09 -0700 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Lines: 29 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: a.wallace@qub.ac.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <378B00B4.D7DEFD42@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Netters! I'm looking for some information about phosphoramidate. I'm working in a molecular plant physiology lab and would like to run an experiment using p32-labelled phosphoramidate. Unfortunately I'm not aware of a commercial supplier selling the labelled reagent or an unlabelled precursor. So please kindly inform me if you know about a company selling either the p32-labelled phosphoramidate or the precursor. The second question would be the following: does someone know a lab or work in a lab which is synthesising phosphoramidate or the precursor in a non-commercial scale and is willing to share an aliquot? I greatly appreciate your help and really look desperately forward to your answer! Jens Lohrmann Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany lohrmann@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Jul 13 11:47:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Steve Heller Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC) move Date: 13 Jul 1999 05:47:19 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 20 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: a.wallace@qub.ac.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ********************* Due to a relocation of the server, the Internet Journal of Chemistry (http://www.ijc.com/) will be unavailable from July 26 to early in August. The URL will remain the same after the move. As soon as the server is available again, an announcement of the reappaerance of the journal will be sent off to many email lists. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this temporary interuption of services may have. Sincerely, Steven Bachrach Editor-in-Chief, Internet Journal of Chemistry ********************** From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Jul 13 11:51:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Shu-Kun Lin Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Annual Review of Chemical Resources on the Internet Date: 13 Jul 1999 05:51:08 -0700 Organization: MDPI (http://www.mdpi.org) Lines: 71 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: a.wallace@qub.ac.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <3785AD57.CC8A83EC@mdpi.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I would like to invite you to contribute short papers for presentation at ECSOC-3 (http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-3.htm section E) and for publication in a special issue (December 1999) "Annual Review of Chemical Resources on the Internet" of MOLECULES (http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/). Any suggestions are welcomed. Titles and Topics are Links for Chemists Main website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html Author(s): Michael H. Barker Online-only Journals Monitored by Chemical Abstracts Main website: http://www.cas.org/EO/ejourn2.html Author(s): Nancy Simons Web-Based 2D Structure Registration and Search Main website: http://www.mdpi.org/forum.htm#chemicals Author(s): (Shu-Kun Lin) Online Accessible Chemical Databases Main website: http://www.mdpi.org/forum.htm#chemicals Author(s): (Shu-Kun Lin) Other topics: Electronic Conferences on Chemistry Mailing Lists of Chemistry Chemical Software (Several papers) Chemical Java Applets Web-Based Electronic Laboratory Notebook Online Chemistry Books Web-Reprints of Classical Works New Web-Based Books Databases, websites related to chemistry are very dynamic, ever growing or updating. Let us have a snapshot once every year so that some decades late, to say in 2100, our grand children will have a chance to see how things on the then primitive and exciting internet going. Internet is a large stride of a revolution towards information freedom. The "Annual Review of Chemical Resources on the Internet" also serves as records of the overview of the work of chemistry internet pioneers. Submitted papers can be stored locally on your server. If possible, with the permission of the webmaster, download and store the related websites and put them into your local server The style of the papers should be like that of http://www.unibas.ch/mdpi/molecules/papers/30100016/30100016.htm Try to gather all the links to the "References and Notes" section. The first one will be published as a special issue of Molecules (http://mdpi.org/molecules/) in December 1999. If it its volume is very large, we may treat it as an online book. Interested authors are invited to prepare a chapter. One chapter in the final book is regarded as an independent review paper for Molecules. please contact by e-mail with me for further information. Shu-Kun Lin Managing Editor Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049, CODEN: MOLEFW) http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/ From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Fri Jul 16 16:12:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Kim Takita Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Single Molecule Analysis & Emerging Applications Date: 16 Jul 1999 10:12:46 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 32 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: a.wallace@qub.ac.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <4.1.19990715104402.009379c0@192.168.0.10> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Single Molecule Analysis & Emerging Applications August 19-20, 1999, Boston, MA Will observing and manipulating some of the smallest building blocks of biological and synthetic materials lead to new applications and technologies? New analytical approaches is now the focus of intense research as organizations look to real-world applications to take advantage of exciting advances in single-molecule detection. Find out how single molecule research can benefit biotechnology, biomedicine, forensics, materials science, molecular electronics and molecular machines. Conference website: http://www.knowledgefoundation.com/molecule.html If you have any questions, or if you would like to receive a brochure, please feel free to contact me (see below). Thank you! ---------------------------------------- Kim Takita Vice President The Knowledge Foundation 101 Merrimac Street Boston, MA 02114 617-367-7979 ext. 202 617-367-7912 (fax) Email: kmtakita@knowledgefoundation.com http://www.knowledgefoundation.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Jul 26 09:37:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Meetings, news, vacancies... Date: 26 Jul 1999 03:37:32 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 33 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <379A12CC.74DF@warr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Featured on Warr Zone: Celltech Merger with Chiroscience Group TerraGen Acquisitions Zeneca Specialties Patenting of Combinatorial Chemistry Therapeutic Antibodies to Merge with Proteus ComGenex Procures CE mark for MultiReactor ComGenex and Rhone-Poulenc Agro Establish Combichem Collaboration Organic Letters Web Edition Goes Live http://www.warr.com/warrzone.htm Meetings updated at http://www.warr.com/meet99.html and http://www.warr.com/meet00.html Job vacancies at http://www.warr.com/vacancies.htm A few other things have changed too. Have a look. 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 Mon Jul 26 10:16:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: george sibbald Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: MSA Portland Meeting Invitation: In Vitro AFM Force Spectroscopy Date: 26 Jul 1999 04:16:07 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 43 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <002501bed51f$f907e820$74c0dad2@sibbald> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net SUBJECT: "Studying Antibody-Antigen Interactions Using Atomic Force Microscopy" Dear Colleague The paper below shows why this new field of microscopy and molecular manipulation is becoming important to single molecule biological research. This e-mail is to invite you to discuss "Antibody-Antigen Interactions Force Spectroscopy Using Atomic Force Microscope" on August 2 through 5, 1999, at the Molecular Imaging Booth # 213. I hope to see you at MSA in Portland OR, but if you can not make it and need further information please e-mail info@molec.com. Sincerely George Sibbald, President Molecular Recognition Force.Microscopy/Spectroscopy Peter Hinterdorfer, Anneliese Raab, Hansgeorg Schindler; University of Linz. Characterization of molecular recognition on single molecular complexes. Properties measured: kinetics(kon, koff), molecular dynamics(msec), interaction forces. "Pull" Force Spectroscopy: Antibody antigen binding force characterization images in vitro shows both force and topographical images as well as binding event timing. http://www.molec.com/biology/antibody/index.html Biological Measurements and Forces in AFM Stuart Lindsay, Wenhai Han, and Yanzhang Liu; Arizona State University Protein unfolding may play a vital role in protein function (Soteriou, Clarke et al. 1993)., Rief et al. (Rief, Gautel et al. 1997) demonstrated that the AFM could be used to follow the unfolding of a single protein molecule trapped between the AFM probe and a gold surface http://www.molec.com/newsletters/spring98/npage1.htm From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Jul 26 10:18:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Lead optimization libraries Date: 26 Jul 1999 04:18:05 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 16 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <3796FE05.76D8@warr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net If your company wants to make lead optimization libraries for another company, or if you can recommend such a "contractor", please contact me personally (wendy@warr.com). Please don't hit the reply button and annoy other subscribers. 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 Thu Jul 29 12:27:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Rich Lysakowski, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: ACS Short Course on "Electronic Notebooks and Knowledge Management Date: 29 Jul 1999 06:27:22 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 126 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleague, Attend the following exciting short course to be held in New Orleans, LA on Friday, August 20th and Saturday, August 21st. It is held two days before the start of the ACS Fall National Meeting. Please register directly with the American Chemical Society using the phone number at the end of this message. Please register right away because open slots will fill up soon. American Chemical Society (ACS) Continuing Education - Short Courses "ELECTRONIC LAB NOTEBOOK AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT" This exciting and fast-moving course will captivate anyone needing to know the legal, regulatory, technical, and social aspects of electronic notebooks, recordkeeping, groupware, document management, or other collaborative systems used in R&D or technical organizations. It covers advanced automation technologies and concepts leading to highly collaborative, knowledge-based R&D organizations. It explains and gives examples of the the latest concepts for electronic recordkeeping, archving, electronic books and notebooks, and project data handling systems tied into collaborative infrastructures. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Scientists, managers, engineers, MIS and computer support, librarians and notebook administrators, archivists, knowledge managers, patent attorneys, and industry regulators in the chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental, biotech, food and beverage, aerospace, automotive, and related industries, universities or government labs. HOW YOU'LL BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE Stay current with the latest technologies, regulations, and legal imperatives for laboratory recordkeeping. Lead your company into the electronic recordkeeping age by understanding critical requirements. Quickly assess your company's infrastructure and cultural readiness to use electronic lab notebooks; learn how to prepare them if they are not. Learn how to enroll your Legal and Regulatory Affairs Departments as partners rather than adversaries. Learn when to buy versus build systems; how to grow them into bull-blown R&D team computing systems for managing organizational knowledge. Get practical tips for evaluating and selecting vendors and systems. See key products evaluated and demonstrated without vendor hype. Receive top-notch materials and other resources to deepen your understanding of concepts and systems in this course. COURSE TOPICS What are "electronic lab notebooks" and "R&D team computing systems?" What is "knowledge management," its practices, and technologies? How do these compare with groupware, document management, collaborative computing, and other advanced automation tools? Bottom-line business benefits and costs of systems and applications. "Best practices" for R&D and testing laboratory recordkeeping. The 13 fundamental properties of electronic records management systems and organizations. Electronic signature and notary systems and products available. Satisfying the latest FDA, EPA, and Patent Office recordkeeping regulations with electronic records and signatures. Receive a seasoned interpretation of FDA's Rule 21 CFR Part 11 and how to comply with it. Basic and advanced technical system requirements. Design and usability features that will "make or break" your projects. How to move through potential cultural barriers to electronic notebooks and other electronic collaboration systems. Case studies and end-user experiences with home-brew and commercial systems. How to critically evaluate vendors and commercial products for fit. A sampling of tools, technologies, and approaches for building systems. THE INSTRUCTORS This course is taught by two highly experienced automation specialists and teachers with over two decades each of experience solving automation problems. Dr. Richard Lysakowski is the Executive Director of the Electronic Notebook Systems Association, an international industry association dedicated to market development of electronic notebook systems and related systems for laboratory and R&D automation. Dr. James T. Currie Jr. is a laboratory automation consultant and expert who has implemented many systems automated in validated environments. He has been involved in all phases of product and system development for many LIMS, instrument interfacing, and related systems. To register or to obtain additional information, e-mail us at shortcourses@acs.org. Or, call us at 800-227-5558, ext. 4508, or 202-872-4508.