From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Wed Aug 04 12:22:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: BIOSCI Administrator Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Date: 4 Aug 1999 06:22:10 -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: <199907280900.CAA27578@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 Wed Aug 04 12:25:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Michael Sherrell Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: 377 seqs, synths, LC/MSs, NMRs for sale Date: 4 Aug 1999 06:24:53 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 51 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <01BEDCE3.0D132D00@user-33qtgv3.dialup.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Sequencers, synthesizers, mass spectrometers, NMRs for sale: Peptide and oligo synthesizers and sequencers: ABI 392: $2,500 (electronics working; add $3,000 for rebuild/warranty) ABI 394: $12,500 (Valve blocks rebuilt; warranteed) ABI 390Z: $4,000 (50-100uM yields) ABI 430: $6,000 (electronics working; add $5,000 for rebuild/warranty) ABI 431: $12,500 (Rebuilt, warranteed) ABI 433: $19,000 (ABI upgrade) PerSeptive 9050+: $6,000 (As is/was working when decommissioned; add $3,500 for rebuild/warranty) ABI 373 stretch: $9,000 (Big dye upgrade; under ABI service contract) ABI 373 stretch: $7,000 (4-filter) ABI 377: $80,000 (96 lanes; under ABI service contract; quantity discounts for 2 or more) ABI 377: $60,000 (48-lane; under ABI contract) ABI Procise 492: $45,000 obo (ABI-certified) LC/Mass spectrometers: Sciex API III+ LC/MS/MS: $ 59,000 (ES, APCI, under PE service contract) Sciex API 300: $100,000 (365 upgrade, PE install/warranty available) HP 1100 benchtop LC/MSD: $120,000 (APCI & API-electrospray, autosampler, DAD detector, < 1 year old) Finnigan LCQ: $120,000 ("Classic" MS^n; 1.5 yrs old; site license included) PE Mariner: $140,000 (1998 model; includes refurb, install and 1 yr. warranty) Finnigan Navigator benchtop LC/MS: $ 75,000; 18 mos. old; factory refurb, install & 90-day warr. included Finnigan TSQ 7000 LC+GC/MS/MS: $ 97,500; current software; API-1 source; under Finnigan service contract Sciex 150 benchtop LC/MS: $ 98,000; 2 yrs old; includes Gilson 215 liquid handler, ELSD detector & HP 1100 HPLC. Finnigan SSQ 7000 LC/MS: $130,000; API-2 source, electrospray + APCI, Excaliber software, factory refurb, 90-day warranty, install included Micromass II: $50,000; ES, APCI, 3 yrs. old, includes HPLC, NOT Z-spray Fisons VG Platform: make offer; to 3000 daltons; under service contract HP 5989B LC+GC/MS: $ 35,000; Extended mass range (2000 amu), hex ion guide; HPLC & warranty avail. Finnigan MAT 90: $30,000; Hi-resolution magnetic sector Fisons VG 2000: <$100,000 MALDI-TOFs: Voyager RP: $60,000; NOT DE; 4 yrs. old; running in lab now LaserMAT 3000: $24,000; new detector and laser; +$2,000/install; service agreements available Hewlett-Packard G2025A $ 50,000 NMRs:     Bruker AMX 600: call for specs and price     Varian Unity 500+: $245,000; broadband; includes install/warranty Varian Unity 500: $180,000; incl. install/warranty     Bruker AM360: $85,000; broadband; widebore; install included     Varian Unity 500: call for price; broadband Also available: Hitachi 570 scanning electron microscope, Kevex detector, running now, $35,000. BD FACSVantage and assorted FACScans Various other seqencers, synthesizers etc. are available; please inquire or check the website. Michael Sherrell Grizzly Analytical 707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834 www.grizzlyanalytical.com From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Aug 09 11:26:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Shu-Kun Lin Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: ECSOC-3: Electronic Conference in Organic Synthesis deadline for Date: 9 Aug 1999 05:26:30 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 28 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <37AC8D62.7AFBC657@mdpi.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submission of papers to the 3rd International Electronic Conference in Organic Synthesis (ECSOC-3 at http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-3.htm) is postponed to August 20, 1999. This conference will take place during September 1-30, 1999 on the Internet, providing the opportunity for immediate feedback and informal discussions. The organizers would like to encourage you to use this medium to have your research results made available to the global chemistry community. Please visit the ECSOC-3 website http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-3.htm for more information. Shu-Kun Lin ECSOC-3 Secretary -- Dr. Shu-Kun Lin Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918 E-mail: lin@mdpi.org http://www.mdpi.org/lin/ From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Mon Aug 09 13:26:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Shu-Kun Lin Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Great progress in Molecules' MolBank http://www.molbank.org Date: 9 Aug 1999 07:26:36 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 44 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <37AC95F7.9BF4DF6@mdpi.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net (Excuse me for sending to several mailing lists) Our MolBank section (http://www.molbank.org) of Molecules is perhaps the first, almost perfect electronic journal in chemistry. You can already search on the website www.molbank.org all the published compounds by 2D substructure search. MolBank new features: - easy, electronic procedure to submit a paper - free access from the Internet with powerful searching tools - IUPAC Names (for the titles) generated by CAD (http://www.acdlabs.com) in addition to the following - one-paper for one reaction with one fully characterized product - very fast publication, particularly suitable for publishing short communications to have the priority the a chemist is the first to have synthesized a compound or have fully characterized a natural product - easy publication of short notes of scattered unassembled experimental data for individual compounds which is conventionally not publishable I would like to introduce Dr. Luc Patiny as the MolBank section Editor of MOLECULES (http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/editors.htm#molbank). Dr. Patiny is from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Lausanne, Switzerland. We will publish a large issue soon in August 1999. Enjoy it! Shu-Kun -- Dr. Shu-Kun Lin Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918 E-mail: lin@mdpi.org http://www.mdpi.org/lin/ From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Fri Aug 13 16:39:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Wendy A. Warr" Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: "Chemoinformaticians" Date: 13 Aug 1999 10:39:19 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 38 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <37AFF049.58A2@warr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Colleagues, Please excuse multiple postings. In connection with a paper I am giving in an ACS COMP Division symposium in New Orleans, I want to re-open the discussion on chemoinformatics that we had on one of these lists some years ago. Not only has the term "chemoinformatics" become even more strongly entrenched (though some say "cheminformatics) but some companies now formally use the awful job title "chemoinformatician". Leaving aside linguistic considerations, I would be interested in subscribers' views on the following. What does a chemoinformatician actually do that a computational chemist or chemical information professional does not do? What skills would you look for if you were recruiting one of these scientists, under whatever job title? Is there a shortage of such skills and, if so, what should the higher education establishment be doing (if anything) to help supply meet demand? Please reply to me in person but I will summarize the comments for the list(s) if this seems desirable. 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 Fri Aug 13 16:50:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Peter Butler Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: Annual Reports in Combinatorial Chemistry and Molecular Diversity Date: 13 Aug 1999 10:50:46 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 17 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <199908111238.FAA25699@listserv.arizona.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net We are pleased to announce the publication of Annual Reports in Combinatorial Chemistry & Molecular Diversity Volume 2 edited by Michael R. Pavia & Walter H. Moos Further information about this publication can be found at: http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-5722-1 Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Peter Butler Kluwer Academic Publishers peter.butler@wkap.nl From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Fri Aug 13 16:57:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Steve Heller Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: ChemInt'99 - Upcoming Deadlines/Workshops Date: 13 Aug 1999 10:57:06 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 76 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This note is a reminder that the deadline for poster abstracts for Chemistry & the Internet - ChemInt'99 is September 1, 1999. September is the deadline for the special hotel rates for the conference. In addition to the previously announced program, two vendor workshops - from ACD Labs and Synopsys - have been added to the meeting. 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 Donald DeCoste, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Karl Harrison, Oxford University Clemens Jochum, Deutsche Bank Gary Mallard, NIST Tom Pierce, Rohm & Haas Jerome Reichman, Vanderbilt Achim Zielesny, Bayer AG The (current) corporate sponsors for the meeting are: ChemWeb and the Internet Journal of Chemistry 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)/ChemSoc Steve Heller Steve Heller, Guest Researcher NIST/SRD, Mail Stop: 820/113 820 Diamond Avenue, Room 101 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2310 USA E-mail: chem@feldmann.nist.gov *** Details on how to be removed from this list as well as an *** *** archive of recent postings are available at *** *** http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/forum.html *** From owner-repertoires@net.bio.net Tue Aug 31 11:00:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Michael Sherrell Newsgroups: bionet.molecules.repertoires Subject: ABI 377 for sale Date: 31 Aug 1999 05:00:54 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 9 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: A.Wallace@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Distribution: world Message-ID: <01BEF092.25D59B80@user-33qtg9p.dialup.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ABI 377, 1998 model, 96-lane, still under service contract, Sequence Analysis and Genescan, computer, monitor, buffer chambers, spacers, combs and cassettes, US$72,000. Service records available. Must act by Wednesday Sept. 1. Michael Sherrell Grizzly Analytical (USA) 707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834 www.grizzlyanalytical.com