From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Apr 2 04:47:32 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id EAA25956; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 04:47:32 -0800 Received: from cs.sandia.gov (cs.sandia.gov [132.175.13.2]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA25947 Received: from jemez.cs.sandia.gov by cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0yKXFt-000XUkC; Wed, 1 Apr 98 16:49 MST Received: from cs.sandia.gov by jemez.cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0yKXEf-000eELC; Wed, 1 Apr 98 16:48 MST Received: from frodo2.cs.sandia.gov by cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0yKXEf-000XUkC; Wed, 1 Apr 98 16:48 MST Received: by frodo2.cs.sandia.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA04556; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:18:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:18:35 -0700 From: scistra@frodo2.cs.sandia.gov (Sorin C. Istrail) Message-Id: <199804012218.PAA04556@frodo2.cs.sandia.gov> To: scistra@frodo2 Subject: MSRI Meeting: Understanding the Genome X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII -------------------------------------------------------------------- Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges May 21-23, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A workshop entitled "Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges" will take place at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California from May 21 to May 23, 1998. The workshop is intended to explain, to an audience of mathematical scientists and scientists in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry, what mathematics, statistics and computation have contributed, and are capable of contributing in the future, to the acquisition and interpretation of genomic data and to related areas of functional genomics. The invited talks will be of several types: surveys of the challenges ahead as viewed by leaders of the field, descriptions of key new technological developments, and descriptions of how mathematics and computation have been applied to specific problems related to genomics and the analysis of biological systems at the cellular level. The speakers will be David Botstein (Stanford), Elbert Branscomb (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory), Gary Churchill (Cornell), Philip Green (University of Washington), David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz), Leroy Hood (University of Washington), Robert Lipschutz (Affymetrix), Pavel Pevzner (USC), David Siegmund (Stanford), Donna Slonim (Whitehead Institute), Gary Stormo (University of Colorado) and Ellen Wijsman (University of Washington). The members of the organizing committee are Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Richard Karp (University of Washington), Jill Mesirov (Whitehead Institute), and Michael Waterman (USC). The mathematical and biotech/pharmaceutical communities are warmly invited to attend. The conference will take place Thursday, May 21, Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23 at MSRI. Lunch will be provided for registered participants. Registration: Registration is required due to the limit of space. Participants should send their registration (see http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9798/genome/reg.html for registration instructions) either by email to genome@msri.org, by fax to: (510) 642-8609, or by regular mail to: Understanding the Genome Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 1000 Centennial Drive Berkeley, CA 94720-5070. Registration fee is $50 per person. Payment may be made by check (drawn on a US bank) or credit card (Mastercard, Visa). Please mail payment with your registration information, or indicate if you intend to pay the fee onsite. Registration is open through May 15, 1998, subject to availability. Financial Support: Limited funds for partial support or waiver of registration fees are available. To apply, send a letter explaining your interest in the conference together with a brief vita or bibliography, and an estimate of your request for funds. Students should solicit a letter from a faculty advisor for their application. Applications for financial support will be considered on a rolling basis. Early submission is strongly encouraged. Information on accommodations and transporation and directions to MSRI are available from the conference web page, http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9798/genome/ . This meeting is jointly sponsored by NERSC, the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center at the the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Alfred P. 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Bill:-) From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Apr 6 11:17:07 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id LAA26013; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:17:07 -0700 Received: from lgsx01.lg.ehu.es (lgsx01.lg.ehu.es [158.227.2.34]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA26003; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:17:05 -0700 Received: from lgdx06.lg.ehu.es by lgsx01.lg.ehu.es (4.1/4.7 ) id AA27545; Mon, 6 Apr 98 20:15:30 +0100 Received: from lcpxcg.lc.ehu.es by lgdx06.lg.ehu.es (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/18Feb98-0137PM) id AA15455; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:15:18 +0200 Message-Id: <35291B53.66BD@lg.ehu.es> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 20:13:39 +0200 From: Asier Fullaondo Elordui-Zapaterietxe Reply-To: gvpfuela@lg.ehu.es Organization: Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: rna@net.bio.net Subject: Secondary structure prediction programme. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear world: I am a Ph.D. student who is trying to develop his Ph. on the study of destabilizing elements within the 3ZTR of several proto-oncogenes. Now I am trying to found any programme ( appart from those of the GCG package ) wich could help me solving and comparing secondary structures in my sequences. Any suggestions please? Hoping to hear about anybody soon, Oskar Fdz-Capetillo e-mail: ggbferuo@lg.ehu.es From BIOSCI-REQUEST Mon Apr 6 11:45:21 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id LAA00327; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:45:21 -0700 Received: from lgsx01.lg.ehu.es (lgsx01.lg.ehu.es [158.227.2.34]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA00293; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:45:18 -0700 Received: from lgdx04.lg.ehu.es by lgsx01.lg.ehu.es (4.1/4.7 ) id AA27783; Mon, 6 Apr 98 20:43:43 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:43:25 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: Oskar Fdz-Capetillo To: rna@net.bio.net Subject: subscribe Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII SUBSCRIBE Oskar Fdz-Capetillo. Animal Biology and Genetics Department. Basque Country University. Spain Tel: 34-4-4647700 Ext:3039 From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Apr 8 06:06:36 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id GAA29711; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:06:36 -0700 Received: from gatekeeper.oss.akzonobel.nl (gatekeeper.oss.akzonobel.nl [192.87.3.2]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA29706; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:06:34 -0700 Received: (from mail@localhost) by gatekeeper.oss.akzonobel.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA26931 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from apou02.akzonobel.nl(145.49.90.250) by gatekeeper.oss.akzonobel.nl via smap (V2.0alpha) id xma025534; Wed, 8 Apr 98 15:04:41 +0200 Received: by apou02.akzonobel.nl id PAA00395; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:04:06 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:04:06 +0100 Received: from umc by apou02.akzonobel.nl via MR/VESTA with conversational-MRIF; Wed, 08 Apr 98 15:04:04 +0100 Posted: Wed, 08 Apr 98 14:50:57 +0100 Sender: bvgemen@am.otbc01.umc.akzonobel.nl From: "Bob van Gemen" Message-ID: <4656501408041998/A48537/OTBV09> App-Message-ID: <4656501408041998/A48537/OTBV09/11C443B23700> To: "Asier Fullaondo Elordui-Zapaterietxe" <"gvpfuela@lg.ehu.es"@pmdf.vesta.umc.akzonobel.nl>, "RNA NEWSGROUP" Subject: Re: Secondary structure prediction programme. Sensitivity: Company-Confidential >Dear world: > > I am a Ph.D. student who is trying to develop his Ph. on the study of >destabilizing elements within the 3ZTR of several proto-oncogenes. Now I >am trying to found any programme ( appart from those of the GCG package >) wich could help me solving and comparing secondary structures in my >sequences. Any suggestions please? > > Hoping to hear about anybody soon, > > Oskar Fdz-Capetillo > e-mail: ggbferuo@lg.ehu.es We have some good experience with the STAR program. The algoritm of the STAR program is especially suited for folding of RNA sequences. You can use the following references to gain some knowledge on the program: 1. J Mol Biol 1995 Jun 30;250(1):37-51 The computer simulation of RNA folding pathways using a genetic algorithm. Gultyaev AP, van Batenburg FH, Pleij CW Institute of Theoretical Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. 2. J Theor Biol 1995 Jun 7;174(3):269-280 An APL-programmed genetic algorithm for the prediction of RNA secondary structure. van Batenburg FH, Gultyaev AP, Pleij CW Institute for Theoretical Biology, Leiden, The Netherlands. Success, Bob van Gemen Project Manager Biotechnology Organon Teknika Boseind 15 5281 RM Boxtel The Netherlands Tel: +31-411-654480 Fax: +31-411-654311 E-mail: b.gemen@teknika.btl.akzonobel.nl From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Apr 8 06:30:43 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id GAA04500; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:30:43 -0700 Received: from timbuk.cray.com (timbuk-fddi.cray.com [128.162.8.102]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04497; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:30:42 -0700 Received: from t2-fddi.cray.com (t2-fddi.cray.com [128.162.8.101]) by timbuk.cray.com (8.8.8/CRI-gate-news-1.3) with ESMTP id IAA23858 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:29:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from esgi051.cray.com (esgi051.cray.com [128.162.105.161]) by t2-fddi.cray.com (8.8.8/craymail-smart) with ESMTP id IAA07449 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:29:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from mwd@localhost) by esgi051.cray.com (8.8.8/CRI-client-1.1) id IAA63218 for rna@net.bio.net; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:29:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Dalton Message-Id: <199804081329.IAA63218@esgi051.cray.com> Subject: Re: Secondary structure prediction programme. To: rna@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:29:03 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24-CRI-d] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Dear world: > > I am a Ph.D. student who is trying to develop his Ph. on the study of >destabilizing elements within the 3ZTR of several proto-oncogenes. Now I >am trying to found any programme ( appart from those of the GCG package >) wich could help me solving and comparing secondary structures in my >sequences. Any suggestions please? > > Hoping to hear about anybody soon, > > Oskar Fdz-Capetillo > e-mail: ggbferuo@lg.ehu.es I would recommend mfold from Dr. Michael Zuker.. When I was helping out at Dr. Perry Hacketts lab at the Univ. of Minnesota we used mfold, and verified the structure (through painful lab work). Also it has a lot of great features. Dr. Zukers site has a lot of good references, and links to other codes. http://www.ibc.wustl.edu/~zuker/ http://www.ibc.wustl.edu/~zuker/rna/ Some of the features are: 1. Accurate folds... with suboptimal structures. 2. Plotting of regions conserved in the folds in: a. suboptimal energies b. across folds (ie. folds of other sequences) 3. Ability to force fold regions you know are folded.. - assisted by a protein. - assisted by folding as RNA is generated. Thanks! Mark -- Mark Dalton CH3-S-CH2 H H O H SGI/Cray Research | | | \ | Eagan, MN 55121 CH2-C-COO //\ ---C--CH2-C-COO C-CH2-C-COO mwd@cray.com | | || || | // | NH3 \\/ \ / CH NH3 O NH3 NH My home page: http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/mwd.html BEAM Robotics: http://www.webconn.com/~mwd/beam.html WWW Cell Bio. course: http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/cell.html From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Apr 9 02:00:12 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id CAA27023; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 02:00:12 -0700 Received: (from biohelp@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id CAA26991; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 02:00:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 02:00:07 -0700 From: BIOSCI Administrator Message-Id: <199804090900.CAA26991@net.bio.net> To: rna@net.bio.net Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser (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. 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From BIOSCI-REQUEST Thu Apr 16 00:12:42 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id AAA20104; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:12:42 -0700 Received: from fly.erato.jst.go.jp (pamina.fly.erato.jst.go.jp [202.241.18.161]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA19978 Received: from [202.241.18.172] (erato7100 [202.241.18.172]) by fly.erato.jst.go.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.5Wbeta-09/30/96) with SMTP id QAA01504; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:43 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:11:43 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199804160711.QAA01504@fly.erato.jst.go.jp> To: bioforum@net.bio.net, biomatrx@net.bio.net, celegans@net.bio.net, cellbiol@net.bio.net, chlamy@net.bio.net, biochrom@net.bio.net, cytonet@net.bio.net, 7tms_r@net.bio.net, gen-link@net.bio.net, genstruc@net.bio.net, hiv-biol@net.bio.net, immuno@net.bio.net, microbio@net.bio.net, mutation@net.bio.net, n2fix@net.bio.net, neur-sci@net.bio.net, peptides@net.bio.net, plantbio@net.bio.net, plsignal@net.bio.net, protein-analysis@net.bio.net, recom@net.bio.net, rna@net.bio.net, virology@net.bio.net, yeast@net.bio.net, zbrafish@net.bio.net, dros@net.bio.net From: lukacs@fly.erato.jst.go.jp (Tamas, Lukacsovich) X-Sender: lukacs@202.241.18.161 Subject: looking for room mate for the FEBS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-Mailer: Eudora-JE(1.3.8-JE13) Dear Anyone out there, I am looking for somebody, who is going to participate in the FEBS meeting, held in Denmark this summer, and would accept me as room mate to share the expenses. I am a non-smoking male but can tolerate even a smoker. Tamas Lukacsovich From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri Apr 17 06:47:41 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id GAA01217; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:47:41 -0700 Received: from ssmain.uniss.it (ssmain.uniss.it [193.205.8.2]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01187; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:47:31 -0700 Received: from neural.uniss.it (neural.fisica.uniss.it [193.205.8.210]) by ssmain.uniss.it with SMTP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06218 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:46:20 +0200 (METDST) Message-Id: <199804171346.PAA06218@ssmain.uniss.it> X-Sender: naimi@ssmain.uniss.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:43:33 +0200 To: rna@net.bio.net From: Valeria Maida Subject: NAIMI Congress Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It gives us great pleasure to inform you that the NAIMI Congress will be held in Alghero, on the North West of Sardinia, in the centre of Mediterranean Sea, this September as a satellite symposium to the Congress in Coordination Chemistry in Florence. This congress is specifically aimed at those working in the DNA Polymers field and promises to be a valuable and stimulating occasion. The opportunity for experts in the general chemical sector to meet those working on the base of DNA and RNA in an informal setting should lead to interesting brainstorming sessions, which will undoubtedly be of great use to both sides.
Yours,
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NAIMI
Nucleic acids and their interactions with metal ions


Satellite Symposium of the XXXIII International Conference
on Coordination Chemistry in Florence
Alghero September 5-7 1998

The mini symposium is intended for researchers in the Chemistry of Nucleic Acids and Metal Ions field. The main objective of the symposium is to bring together scientists interested in the different aspects of the influence of metal ions on the structure and metabolism of DNA. The main topics will be DNA Polymers, nucleic metal proteins, zinc fingers and PNA.

Scientific Program:
The following distinguished speakers have already agreed to deliver a lecture:
Prof. James Allan Cowan (COLUMBUS, USA),=A0
Prof. Rob Kaptein (UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS),=A0=A0
Prof. Bernard Meunier (CNRS, FRANCE),=A0
Prof. Thomas W. Myers (ROCHE, USA),=A0=A0
Prof. Huguette Pelletier (HOUSTON, USA).=A0
Prof. Bibudgendra Sarkar (TORONTO, CANADA),=A0
In addition there will be a poster session and a number of selected oral communications. All those who wish to participate are invited to submit an abstract to the scientific committee.

Organising committee:
F. Bonomi (University of Milano - Italy)
M.L. Ganadu, Chairperson (University of Sassari - Italy)
H. Kozlowski (University of Wrocklaw - Poland)
C. Mealli (CNR, Florence - Italy)
A. Scozzafava (University of Florence - Italy)
M. Taddei (University of Sassari - Italy)

additional information and a registration form is available on:
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********************************************************************* From BIOSCI-REQUEST Sat Apr 18 10:53:39 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id KAA12764; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:53:39 -0700 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA12761; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:53:38 -0700 Received: from sable.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:51:50 +0100 Received: from sable.ox.ac.uk (paris.maison.ox.ac.uk [163.1.59.1]) by sable.ox.ac.uk (1.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA01680 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:51:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3538E833.731AFF33@sable.ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:51:48 +0100 From: maison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rna@net.bio.net Subject: RNA-editing in transgenes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I was wondering if there are any known cases of a transgene undergoing RNA-editing. I would like to know specifically if there could be such an occurence in transgenic plants- caused by any natural/unnatural event ? To put it simply there is some talk that RNA -editing may affect a transgenic product, is this true? Cheers KGosh ps. I would be grateful if you could forward your answers to maison@sable.ox.ac.uk From BIOSCI-REQUEST Wed Apr 22 23:29:54 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id XAA21170; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:29:54 -0700 Received: from lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be (root@lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be [130.104.5.1]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA21167; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:29:52 -0700 Received: from [130.104.109.37] by lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be (8.8.8/UCL-MD-1.0) id IAA15963; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:27:46 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:27:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: opperd@lewsun.md.ucl.ac.be Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: rna@net.bio.net From: "Fred R. Opperdoes" Subject: Modification and Editing of RNA > >Please pass the message to your colleagues who might be interested. >__________________________________________ >Dear Colleague or friend, > >An announcement of the ASM book on " Modification and Editing of RNA " >has been posted at the ASM Press web site, > >http://www.asmusa.org/press/rna.htm > >and I thought you might want to know about it, if you have not already >been informed. > >The book will be available in Atlanta next May 17-21 at the annual ASM >meeting. >Also you can order it directly from the ASM Press/see below > >Best Wishes/ Henri Grosjean > >________________________________________ >May 1998. Hardcover. (ISBN 1-55581-133-7), 600pps., > List Price: $99.95. >Editors: Henri Grosjean and Rob Benne > >About the Book > > This volume examines the various aspects of >post-transcriptional RNA >processing, including biosynthetic, genetic, and functional aspects of >nucleotide modification and >editing by nucleotide conversion as well as by nucleotide >insertion/deletion. It covers techniques for >identification and localization of modified nucleosides in RNA and >chemical synthesis of RNA with >site specific incorporation of natural and/or synthetic modified nucleoside= s. > >Additional Information/consult the web site for: > > Contents > Ordering Information > Other General Microbiology and Molecular Biology Titles > >[ASM Press | ASM Programs, Products and Services | ASM Home Page] > >For more information, send email to books@asmusa.org > >Copyright =A9 1998 American Society for Microbiology; >All rights reserved. >Created: February 27, 1998 >URL: http://www.asmusa.org >________________________________________ > > MODIFICATION AND EDITING OF RNA/ Book Content >________________________________________ > >Co-editors : Henri GROSJEAN & Rob BENNE >Publisher: ASM Press >Publication date: May 1998 > (will be presented for the first time at the ASM annual Meeting in >Atlanta/US) >Format : Large trim size (21 x 28 cm); 600 pages (including index and 6 >appendixes) > >Chapters and (co-)authors > _____________________________________________________ > >Preface ............................................ Henri GROSJEAN >& Rob BENNE >1. Historical Perspectives about RNA-Nucleoside Modifications. > > > ..........................................................................= =2E.... >...Byron G. LANE >2. RNA Modification- and Editing-Enzymes: Methods for Their Identification > .............................Henri GROSJEAN, Yuri MOTORIN & Annie MORIN >3. Sequencing of RNA and Localisation of Modified Nucleosides in RNA > > > ..........................................................................= =2E...P >amela F. CRAIN >4. Incorporation of Modified Nucleotides into RNA for Studies on RNA > Structure, Function and Intermolecular Interactions.. > ........Robert A. ZIMMERMANN, Michael J. GAIT & Melissa J. MOORE >5. Biophysical and Conformational Properties of Modified Nucleosides in > RNA (NMR Studies) .............................................. >Darrell R. DAVIS >6. Effects of Pseudouridylation on tRNA hydration and dynamics: a > Theoretical Approach.................Pascal AUFFINGER & Eric WESTHOF >7. Modulation role of modified nucleotides on RNA loop-loop interaction > Henri GROSJEAN, Claude HOUSSIER, Pascale ROMBY & Roland MARQUET >8. Mechanisms of RNA Modifying/Editing Enzymes........................... > .................George A. GARCIA & DeeAnne M.GOODENOUGH-LASHUA >9. Structural Basis of Base Exchange by tRNA-GuanineTransglycosylases > .............................Christophe ROMIER, Ralf FICNER & >Dietrich SUCK >10. Biosynthesis and Functions of Modified Nucleosides in Eukaryotic mRNA > ............................................. Joseph A. BOKAR & >Fritz M. ROTTMAN >11. Post-Transcriptional Modifications in the Small Nuclear UsRNAs > ...........S=E9verine MASSENET, Annie MOUGIN & Christiane BRANLANT >12 . The Pseudouridine residues of Ribosomal RNA: Number, Location, > Biosynthesis and Function....James OFENGAND+ & Maurille FOURNIER >13. Small Nucleolar RNAs guide the ribose methylations of eukaryotic rRNAs > .................................Jean-Pierre BACHELLERIE & J=E9r=F4me >CAVAILLE >14. Functional Aspects of the Three Modified Nucleotides in Yeast > Mitochondrial Large Subunit rRNA........................Thomas L. >MASON >15 Regulatory Aspects of Ribosomal RNA Modifications and pre-rRNA > Processing..........................Denis LAFONTAINE & David TOLLERVEY >16. Editing of Transfer RNA .............David H. PRICE & Michael W. GRAY >17. RNA Editing by Base Conversion in Plant Organellar RNAs. > Anita MARCHFELDER, Stefan BINDER, Axel BRENNICKE & Volker > KNOOP >18. Apolipoprotein B mRNA Editing.................................... > > ................Benny Hung-Junn CHANG, Paul P. LAU & Lawrence CHAN >19. Adenosine to Inosine Conversion in messenger RNA............. > Susan M. RUETER & >Ronald B. EMESON >20. The Nucleoside Deaminases for Cytidine and Adenosine: Comparison > with Deaminases acting on RNA .............................. >Charles CARTER >21. Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Kinetoplastid >Protozoa........................ > .....................................Stephen L. HAJDUK & Robert S. >SABATINI >22. RNA Editing in Physarum Mitochondria..................................= =2E > .............................Jonatha M. GOTT & Linda M. >VISOMIRSKI-ROBIC >23. Co-Transcriptional Paramyxovirus mRNA Editing : a Contradiction in > Terms?......................Daniel KOLAKOFSKY & St=E9phane HAUSMANN >24. Intra-cellular Locations of RNA Modifying Enzymes .Edward MADEN >25. Genetics and Regulation of Base Modification in tRNA and rRNA > Molecules of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes ...........Malcolm E.WINKLER >26. Links Between tRNA Modification and Metabolism and Modified > Nucleosides as Tumor Markers .. Glenn R. BJ=D6RK & Torgny RASMUSON >27. Modified Nucleosides in Translation........................James F. >CURRAN >28. Importance of Modified Nucleotides in the replication of >Retrovirus, Plant Pararetrovirus and >Retrotransposons.................Roland MARQUET >29. Modified Nucleotides Always Were: an Evolutionary Hypothesis > ......................................Nicolas CERMAKIAN & Robert >CEDERGREN > >APPENDIXES > >I. Chemical Structures and classification of Posttranscriptionally >Modified > Nucleosides in RNA .....Yuri A. MOTORIN+ & Henri GROSJEAN >II. RNA Editing Types and Characteristics....................... > .............................................................Rob >BENNE+ & Dave SPEIJER >III. General Properties of RNA Modifying and Editing >Enzymes................ > ..................George GARCIA+ & DeeAnne M.GOODENOUGH-LASHUA >IV. Known Genetic Locations and identified genes of RNA Modifying and > Editing Enzymes by Hon-Chiu Eastwood LEUNG, Tord HAGERVALL, > Glenn R. BJ=D6RK & Malcolm WINKLER+ >V. Location and Distribution of Modified Nucleotides in tRNA....... > ............................................Pascal AUFFINGER+,& >Eric WESTHOF >VI. Modified nucleotides in position 34 and 37 of tRNAs and their > predicted coding capacities ......Glenn R. BJORK+ >_____________________________________ > > > > ____________________________________________ Henri GROSJEAN (Director of Research) Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales (LEBS) CNRS, Bld 34 - 1, av. de la Terrasse =46-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette / France Tel-office: 33-16982.3468 (after 5 tones, it switches to my lab - eventually leave a message) =46ax-Institute: 33-16982.3129 e.mail: Henri.Grosjean@lebs.cnrs-gif.fr See also our web site: http://cygne.lebs.cnrs-gif.fr/page1z.html ____________________________________________ ------- =46red R. Opperdoes, Research Unit for Tropical Diseases (TROP) and Laboratory of Biochemistry (BCHM) Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology (ICP) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) Avenue Hippocrate 74-75, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium Tel: ++32-2-764.74.39 (secretary) Fax: ++32-2-762.68.53 Tel: ++32-2-764.74.55 (direct) E-mail:Opperdoes@trop.ucl.ac.be Internet: http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/ICP_en.html http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/Fred.html From BIOSCI-REQUEST Fri Apr 24 17:50:48 1998 Return-Path: BIOSCI-REQUEST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) id RAA11892; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:50:48 -0700 Received: from cs.sandia.gov (cs.sandia.gov [132.175.13.2]) by net.bio.net (8.6.12-r-beta/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA11852 Received: from jemez.cs.sandia.gov by cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0ySkWU-000XU3C; Fri, 24 Apr 98 09:36 MDT Received: from cs.sandia.gov by jemez.cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0ySkVD-000eELC; Fri, 24 Apr 98 09:35 MDT Received: from frodo2.cs.sandia.gov by cs.sandia.gov with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7) id m0ySkVC-000XTyC; Fri, 24 Apr 98 09:35 MDT Received: by frodo2.cs.sandia.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA22153; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:05:26 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:05:26 -0600 From: scistra@frodo2.cs.sandia.gov (Sorin C. Istrail) Message-Id: <199804241405.IAA22153@frodo2.cs.sandia.gov> To: scistra@cs.sandia.gov Subject: Call for Papers: COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY SERIES X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY SERIES We are happy to announce that our collection of Special Issues on Computational Molecular Biology has become the <>, an ongoing regular feature of "Discrete Applied Mathemtaics". Series Editors: Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner, Ron Shamir Submission Deadline for the next volume: August 1, 1998 "Don't ask [only] what mathematics can do for biology, ask what biology can do for mathematics." Stanislaw Ulam Manuscripts are solicited for a volume of "Discrete Applied Mathematics" on topics concerning the development of new combinatorial and algorithmic techniques in computational molecular biology. This volume will be the third in the Computational Molecular Biology Series of Discrete Applied Mathematics, which publishes papers on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of the inherently discrete aspects of computational biology. The refereeing of the papers in this series will be thorough and will follow the general pattern of refereeing of regular papers in the journal. The traditional partnership of mathematics and physics has advanced and enriched both disciplines. In a similar partnership, mathematics and algorithms are becoming crucial tools in the rapid advancement of molecular biology. At the same time, the computational challenges of these biological disciplines raise exciting new problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of possible topics of interest for the series: DNA mapping DNA sequencing DNA/protein sequence comparison Molecular evolution RNA/Protein folding and structure prediction Gene/motif recognition Genome rearrangements Gene function determination Drug design and combinatorial chemistry DNA arrays The response to the first two calls for papers in this series was very strong, and resulted in two high quality volumes; the first appeared in 1996 (Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 71), and the second will appear later this year. (A list of papers accepted to the second volume is attached to this message.) In view of the success and strong response for these two volumes, the Editor-in-Chief of Discrete Applied Mathematics and the special volumes guest editors have decided to create an ongoing series of the journal, the Computational Molecular Biology Series. The Series Editors will continue to assure a thorough and timely refereeing process. We expect this third volume in the series to appear in the Fall 1999. Seven (7) hard copies of complete manuscripts should be sent to any of the series editors by August 1, 1998. Manuscripts may be submitted earlier and their refereeing process will be initiated upon submission. The submission should be accompanied by an email message containing only the plain text (ASCII) of the abstract of the paper. Authors are encouraged to send also a LaTex or postscript file of the manuscript via email, to expedite the reviewing process. This does not replace the need for hard copy submission. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the normal submission requirements of Discrete Applied Mathematics, as described in each issue of the journal. Further information on the series is available from: http://www.elsevier.nl/mcs/dam/Menu.html (The Netherlands) http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~scistra/DAM (USA) http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~shamir/dcb.html (Israel) The Series Editors are: ----------------------- Sorin Istrail Sandia National Laboratories Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory P.O.Box 5800, MS 1110 Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 scistra@cs.sandia.gov http: //www.cs.sandia.gov/~scistra Pavel Pevzner University of Southern California Department of Mathematics, DRB 155 Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113 ppevzner@hto.usc.edu http: //www-hto.usc.edu/people/Pevzner.html Ron Shamir Department of Computer Science School of Mathematical Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 ISRAEL shamir@math.tau.ac.il http: //www.math.tau.ac.il/~shamir ----------------------------------------------------------- Papers Accepted to the Second Volume of DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS on COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY F. Annexstein, R. Swaminathan "On testing consecutive ones property in parallel" C. Armen, C. Stein "A 2 and 3/4 approximation algorithm for the shortest superstring problem" B. DasGupta, T.Jiang, S.Kannan, M. Li, Z. Sweedyk "On the complexity of approximation of syntenic distance" H. Edelsbrunner, M. Facello, J. Liang "On the definition and the construction of pockets in macromolecules" O. Eulenstein, M. Vingron "On the equivalence of two tree mapping measures" D. Fernandez-Baca, J. Lagergren "On the approximability of the Steiner tree problem in phylogeny" I. Grebinsky, G. Kucherov "Reconstructing a hamiltonian circuit by querying the graph: application to DNA physical mapping" D. Gusfield, R. M. Karp, L. Wang, P. Stelling "Graph traversals, genes and matroids: an efficient case of the traveling salesman problem" L. Heath, J. Vergara "Sorting by bounded block-moves" I. Hofacker, P. Schuster, P. Stadler "Combinatorics of RNA secondary structures" J. Kececiouglu, D.Gusfield "Reconstructing a history of recombinations from a set of sequences" E. Knill, W. Bruno, D. Torney "Non-adaptive group testing in the presence of errors" G. Lancia, M. Perlin "Genotyping of pooled microsatellite markers by combinatorial optimization techniques" F.R. McMorris, C. Wang, P. Zhang "On probe interval graphs" J. Miedanis, O. Porto, G.P. Telles "On the consecutive Ones Property" R. Ravi, J. Kececiouglu "Approximation algorithms for multiple sequence alignment under a fixed evolutionary tree" M. Steel, M.D. Hendy, D. 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