From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Thu May 08 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Martin Aslett Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: The Schistosoma genome database, release announcement Date: 9 May 1997 04:30:22 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 53 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <5kv1se$46t@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Release 1 of SchistoDB contains the following :- All Schisto DNA sequences from GenBank/EMBL (viewable as a special graphic display) BLASTN/BLASTX analysis of all of these sequences (viewable as a special graphic display showing alignment of matches and degree of homology) Cluster analysis of all schisto sequences on GenBank All Schisto references in the molecular biology subset of Medline Address details etc. of all Schistosoma Genome Network members and participating laboratories In order to download SchistoDB, use anonymous ftp to access the following site :- ftp.ebi.ac.uk Once logged in, go to the directory :- /pub/databases/parasites/Schisto This directory contains a file README.SchistoDB which contains details of how to download and install both the Acedb software needed to run SchistoDB and also the SchistoDB data itself. Please e-mail me should you have any problems either with the software or the data or if you have any parasite genome informatics questions. Best wishes, Martin Aslett, WHO Parasite Genome Database Co-ordinator, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Dr.Christoph G.Grevelding Tel.:(49)-211-81-13070 Genetic Parasitology Fax :(49)-211-81-12333 Institute of Genetic (49)-211-81-12279 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Universitaetsstrasse 1 40225 Duesseldorf ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + e-mail: Christoph.Grevelding@uni-duesseldorf.de + + http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/Parasitologie/gen_para.htm + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Wed May 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: David Kristofferson Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI moving to Stanford! Date: 21 May 1997 23:34:25 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 55 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m0pdh$m2u@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net After more than a decade of serving the biology community on the BIOSCI project, I have decided that it is time for me to pass the torch. The demands of my career and family are making it increasingly difficult for me to run BIOSCI adequately on a part-time basis, and I've decided that I would do the project more harm than good by clinging to it. Therefore I have concluded an agreement with the Stanford University Libraries to take over the management of the BIOSCI project effective 6 June 1997. Many of you know the work of the Stanford Libraries through HighWire Press which has done an excellent job bringing the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science Magazine, and other prestigious journals to the WWW (see http://highwire.stanford.edu/). I have every confidence that Stanford will provide an environment where the BIOSCI project can flourish. The BIOSCI team at Daresbury will continue to support the project in Europe, and Dave Mack and Julie Lawrence on the current BIOSCI staff will continue to assist the new team at Stanford. The project will be managed by Serge Taylor of the Stanford Libraries who is responsible for developing Web-based "knowledge environments" for scientists. I will still participate with the project in an advisory capacity but have to phase myself out of day-to-day operations. Many of you who read bionet.announce, bionet.biology.computational, and bionet.jobs.offered (the groups that I moderate) have been aware of the recent posting delays that my busy schedule has inflicted on those newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that Todd McGee, Scientific Advisor of the HighWire Press, will be taking over moderation of those groups from me this week. ** NOTE ** - The BIOSCI hardware will be down for backups on 6 June and will be moved over the weekend of June 7 and 8. We will be changing the IP number of the machine, but the host name and all mailing addresses will remain unchanged. There may be a few days of service disruption during this time due to the move unfortunately, just as we experienced in BIOSCI's previous move. We hope to keep this to a minimum. We will post status reports on the move to bionet.announce before and after it happens. Please watch that newsgroup for details. It has been a pleasure serving all of you since the "early days" of biology on the Internet. I've had the pleasure of not only "knowing" many of you over the Internet, but have also met literally thousands of biologists around the U.S. and elsewhere during the many Internet training seminars that I gave over the last decade. I've been truly fortunate to have been given the chance to play a role in the growth of biology on the Internet. This is something I will always treasure. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net From owner-schistosoma@net.bio.net Wed May 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Christoph Grevelding" Newsgroups: bionet.organisms.schistosoma Subject: WHO's policy documents are on the Web Date: 22 May 1997 00:28:03 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 246 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: greveld@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m0si3$t12@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I received this message from Bob Hata via the TDR-newsgroup recently and think that it might be of interest to some of you. Sincerely Christoph Grevelding Folks, The 50th session of the World Health Assembly is just over. I learned of the Web appearance of a great number of WHO policy documents, including WHO Constitution, Executive Board and Assembly documents... An example of the emerging products of the WHO Management Information System (WHO/MIS)! The URL is: http://who_hq_policy.who.ch/en/policy3.htm FYI... Bob Hata (hatak@who.ch) Internetworking Manager, TDR/WHO WHO Policy The WHO Policy information retrieval system has been established as one of the core modules of the WHO Management Information System (WHO/MIS). It provides access to WHO policies and related documents . It is a full text retrieval system allowing the user to navigate and search through the various "infobases". To view and query an infobase, or conduct a query on several infobases, please click one of the below. [Basic documents] Basic Documents Contains essential documents of the World Health Organization, including the Constitution, Rules of Procedure of the World Health Assembly and of the Executive Board, Regulations for Expert Advisory Panels and Committees and for Study and Scientific Groups, and Financial and Staff Regulations. Updated to 31 October 1996, it also includes the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies, agreements with the United Nations and with other agencies, and the principles governing relations with nongovernmental organizations. A list of members and associate members of WHO and the Statute of the International Agency for Research on Cancer are appended. * WHO Constitution * WHO Members [Executive board] Executive Board Resolutions and Decisions (Sessions 1 to 99) Infobase EB. This infobase contains all the resolutions and decisions of the Executive Board sessions since 1948. Executive Board Documents * Session 97 - January 1996 Infobase EB97. This infobase contains all the documents of the Executive Board session 97 (January 1996) as presented "in session". It includes EB, Information and miscellaneous documents. * Session 98 - May 1996 Infobase EB98. This infobase contains all the documents of the Executive Board session 98 (May 1996) as presented "in session". It includes EB and Information documents. * Session 99 - January 1997 Infobase EB99. This infobase contains all the documents of the Executive Board session 99 (January 1997) as presented "in session". It includes EB, Information and miscellaneous documents, Resolutions, Conference Papers. Executive Board Official Records * Session 97 - January 1996 Infobase EB97REC. This infobase contains the Official Records of the Executive Board session 97 (January 1996) as published in the in the WHO Official publications EB97/1996/REC/1 and REC/3 publications. It includes Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes and Summary records. * Session 98 - May 1996 Infobase EB98REC. This infobase contains the Official Records of the Executive Board session 98 (May 1996) as published in the in the WHO Official publication EB98/1996/REC/1. It includes Decisions, Annexes and Summary Records of Committees. [World Health Assembly] World Health Assembly Resolutions and Decisions (Sessions 1 to 49) Infobase WHA. This infobase contains all the resolutions and decisions of the World Health Assembly sessions since 1948. World Health Assembly Documents * Session 49 - May 1996 Infobase WHA49. This infobase contains all the documents of the World Health Assembly session 49 (May 1996) as presented "in session". It includes Assembly, Information, miscellaneous documents and resolutions. World Health Assembly Official Records * Session 49 - May 1996 Infobase WHA49REC. This infobase contains the Official Records of the World Health Assembly session 49 (May 1996) as published in the WHO Official publications WHA49/1996/REC/1 and REC/3. It includes Resolutions and Decisions, Annexes, Summary records and Reports of [Programme budget] Programme Budget (1996-1997) Proposed Programme Budget (1998-1999) [Health for All] Alma-Ata 1978 - Primary Health Care Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata in 1978 and Declaration of Alma-Ata. Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 launched by the 32th World Health assembly in 1979, based on the Alma-Ata report and Declaration. Plan of Action for Implementating the Global Strategy for Health for All Plan of Action for implementing the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 approved by the 35th World Health assembly in 1982. Ninth General Programme of Work Ninth general programme of Work, covering the period 1996-2001. It defines the policy framework for world action and sets the framework for Programme development and management for WHO itself. OTHER PUBLICATIONS * International Health Regulations International Health Regulations adopted by the 22nd World Health Assembly (WHA) in 1969 and amended by the 26 WHA in 1973 and the 34th WHA in 1981. The document represents the text of the International Health Regulations in force as of 1 January 1982. [Regional committees] RC for AFRO Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for the Africa, for the forty-fifth and forty-sixth sessions. RC for AMRO - Resolutions (1996) * Policy documents on the Web site of the AMRO/PAHO * Resolutions of the thirty-ninth meeting of the Directing Council (September 1996) RC for EURO * Resolutions on the EURO Web site * Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for Europe. Includes sessions 34 to 46 (1984- 1996), presented by sessions * Handbook of resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for Europe Volume II Ccovering the period 1988-1994. The structure of the Volume II is aligned with the 1991 update of the document Health for all targets: Health Policy for Europe. RC for EMRO - Resolutions and Decisions of Sessions 40 to 43 Resolutions and decisions of the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, presented by sessions. Includes sessions 40 to 43 covering the period 1992-1995. RC for SEARO - Handbook of Resolutions (1976-1995) Volume II of the Handbook of resolutions and decisions of the WHO Regional Committee for South- East Asia. Includes sessions 29th to 48th covering the period 1976-1995. The structure of Volume II follows a subject classification. RC for WPRO * Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions (1986-1995) Volume III of the Handbook of resolutions and decisions of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific. Includes sessions 37th to 46th covering the period 1986-1995. The structure of Volume III follows a subject classification. * Resolutions of the forty-seventh session of the Regional committee (1996) [WHO logo] [WHO AMS] [WHO SIGHT] [WHO MIS] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [WHO Policy Info] For further information please contact: Paulette ROZE, rozep@who.ch Dr.Christoph G.Grevelding Tel.:(49)-211-81-13070 Genetic Parasitology Fax :(49)-211-81-12333 Institute of Genetics (49)-211-81-12279 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Universitaetsstrasse 1 40225 Duesseldorf e-mail: Christoph.Grevelding@uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/ Parasitologie/gen_para.htm Dr.Christoph G.Grevelding Tel.:(49)-211-81-13070 Genetic Parasitology Fax :(49)-211-81-12333 Institute of Genetics (49)-211-81-12279 Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Universitaetsstrasse 1 40225 Duesseldorf e-mail: Christoph.Grevelding@uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/MathNat/ Parasitologie/gen_para.htm