Delivered-To: biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk To: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk From: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Subject: BOUNCE bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk: Message too long (>40000 chars) Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 09:15:43 +0100 (BST) >From news@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat May 1 09:15:39 1999 Received: from niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (niobium [193.62.192.41]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21923 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 09:15:39 +0100 (BST) Received: (from news@localhost) by niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA09132 for bionews-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Sat, 1 May 1999 09:11:18 +0100 (BST) From: BIOSCI Administrator Subject: BIOSCI Newsgroups Information - Europe, Africa, Central Asia Date: 1 May 1999 01:03:02 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Message-ID: <7gecfm$m7k@net.bio.net> To: bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET (last revised 14-MAY-99) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > IMPORTANT NOTE: In addition to the USENET and e-mail methods described > below, one can also participate in the BIOSCI newsgroups through the > World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.bio.net/. After connecting to > this site, click on the "Access the BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroups" > hyperlink. This is the BIOSCI information sheet for Europe, Africa, and Central Asia. If you are located in the Americas or the Pacific Rim countries, please retrieve that version of the information sheet by sending the command info usinfo in the body of an e-mail message addressed to the Internet address biosci-server@net.bio.net Any text placed on the Subject: line of your message is ignored, so please be sure to put the "info usinfo" command in the main body of your e-mail message. The real question here is "How are you connected to the Internet?" If you have better network connections to America than to the UK you should use the Americas/Pacific Rim information. Your local computer experts may be able to help you with this. If there are problems getting e-mail to you, we may redirect you to the US. New users of BIOSCI/bionet may want to read the "Frequently Asked Questions" or "FAQ" sheet for BIOSCI. The FAQ provides details on how to participate in these forums and is available at http://www.bio.net/BIOSCI/biosci.FAQ.html. It may also be requested by sending e-mail to biosci-server@net.bio.net as described above except that the command info faq should be used in the body of the mail message. The FAQ is also posted on the first of each month to the newsgroup BIONEWS/bionet.announce immediately following the posting of both versions of the BIOSCI information sheet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of this Document ------------------------- Introduction List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information E-mail Address Changes Interruption of E-mail Service Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups Retrieving Other BIOSCI Documentation Introduction ------------ The BIOSCI newsgroup network was developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of computer networks. BIOSCI is supported by advertising sponsorships on its web site (http://www.bio.net/) in the U.S.A. and by the United Kingdom Medical Research Council's HGMP-RC. BIOSCI services are available to users free of charge. BIOSCI messages are broadcast by two means: USENET news software and electronic mail. They are also available on the WWW at http://www.bio.net/. We strongly encourage all interested users to explore getting "USENET news" software at your site. The software is in the public domain, and you will find it much more convenient than subscribing to newsgroups by e-mail. Please consult your systems manager (the news client software is now incorporated in many Web browsers, and the news server (NNTP server) software may already be available on a machine at your institution). NOTE, however, that the installation and maintenance of news software requires the assistance of a trained systems operator in most cases and is not a task to be undertaken by a computer novice. Why is news software preferable to e-mail? News software recovers messages automatically after network interruptions, whereas your e-mail address may have to be removed from the subscription list at times if your computer/network malfunctions and undelivered mail starts bouncing back to the BIOSCI administrative sites. You will have to view lost e-mail messages in the WWW archives at http://www.bio.net/ if your e-mail subscription is suspended. News software organizes messages by topic and subtopic for easy browsing. In contrast if you subscribe by e-mail to more than one discussion list, messages from multiple lists arrive into your personal mail file in chronological order of posting only and are mixed in with your personal messages. You have to connect the discussion threads yourself if you use e-mail. In summary, e-mail participation should be seen as a last resort to be used only if news software can not be installed locally. List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups ------------------------------------------- BIOSCI messages are distributed on the newsgroups in the "bionet" hierarchy of USENET and on the corresponding mailing lists indicated below. Contents of the USENET newsgroups and the e-mail distributions are *identical*, i.e., messages sent in by e-mail are also forwarded to USENET and messages posted to USENET newsgroups are also distributed to e-mail subscribers. An expanded description of the purpose of each newsgroup follows this list. MAILING LIST NAME USENET Newsgroup Name ----------------- --------------------- ACEDB-SOFT bionet.software.acedb AFCR ** bionet.prof-society.afcr AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing AGROFORESTRY bionet.agroforestry AIBS ** bionet.prof-society.aibs AMYLOID ** bionet.neuroscience.amyloid ARABIDOPSIS ** bionet.genome.arabidopsis ASCB ** bionet.prof-society.ascb AUDIOLOGY bionet.audiology AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** bionet.genome.autosequencing BIOCAN ** bionet.prof-society.cfbs BIOFILMS bionet.microbiology.biofilms BIOFORUM bionet.general BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bionet.info-theory BIONAUTS bionet.users.addresses BIONEWS ** bionet.announce BIO-JOURNALS ** bionet.journals.contents BIO-MATRIX bionet.molbio.bio-matrix BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bionet.prof-society.biophysics BIOPHYSICS bionet.biophysics BIO-SOFTWARE bionet.software BIO-SRS bionet.software.srs BIOTECHNIQUES ** bionet.journals.letters.biotechniques BIOTHERMOKINETICS bionet.metabolic-reg BIO-WWW ** bionet.software.www CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH bionet.biology.cardiovascular CELEGANS bionet.celegans CELL-BIOLOGY bionet.cellbiol CHLAMYDOMONAS ** bionet.chlamydomonas CHROMOSOMES bionet.genome.chromosomes COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** bionet.biology.computational CSM ** bionet.prof-society.csm CYTONET bionet.cellbiol.cytonet DEEPSEA ** bionet.biology.deepsea DIAGNOSTICS ** bionet.diagnostics DROSOPHILA bionet.drosophila ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** bionet.ecology.physiology EMBL-DATABANK bionet.molbio.embldatabank EMF-BIO ** bionet.emf-bio EMPLOYMENT ** bionet.jobs.offered EMPLOYMENT-WANTED bionet.jobs.wanted FASEB ** bionet.prof-society.faseb FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS bionet.molbio.proteins.fluorescent FREE-RADICALS ** bionet.molecules.free-radicals G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR bionet.molbio.proteins.7tms_r GDB bionet.molbio.gdb GENBANK-BB bionet.molbio.genbank GENETIC-LINKAGE bionet.molbio.gene-linkage GENSTRUCTURE ** bionet.genome.gene-structure GLYCOSCI bionet.glycosci GRASSES-SCIENCE bionet.biology.grasses HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY bionet.molbio.hiv HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** bionet.molbio.genome-program IMMUNOLOGY bionet.immunology INFO-GCG bionet.software.gcg INSULIN-ACTION ** bionet.cellbiol.insulin JOURNAL-NOTES bionet.journals.note METHODS-AND-REAGENTS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts MICROBIOLOGY bionet.microbiology MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION bionet.molbio.evolution MOLECULAR-MODELLING bionet.molec-model MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** bionet.molecules.repertoires MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** bionet.molbio.molluscs MYCOLOGY bionet.mycology NAVBO ** bionet.prof-society.navbo NEUROSCIENCE bionet.neuroscience N2-FIXATION bionet.biology.n2-fixation P450 bionet.molecules.p450 PARASITOLOGY bionet.parasitology PEPTIDES ** bionet.molecules.peptides PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** bionet.photosynthesis PLANT-BIOLOGY bionet.plants PLANT-EDUCATION bionet.plants.education PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** bionet.plants.signaltransduc POPULATION-BIOLOGY bionet.population-bio PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS bionet.diagnostics.prenatal PROTEIN-ANALYSIS bionet.molbio.proteins PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY bionet.xtallography PROTISTA bionet.protista PSEUDOMONADS bionet.organisms.pseudomonas RAPD bionet.molbio.rapd RECOMBINATION bionet.molbio.recombination SCHISTOSOMA ** bionet.organisms.schistosoma SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** bionet.sci-resources STADEN bionet.software.staden STRUCTURAL-NMR ** bionet.structural-nmr SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** bionet.biology.symbiosis TIBS ** bionet.journals.letters.tibs TOXICOLOGY bionet.toxicology TROPICAL-BIOLOGY bionet.biology.tropical URODELES ** bionet.organisms.urodeles VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** bionet.biology.vectors VIROLOGY ** bionet.virology WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY bionet.women-in-bio X-PLOR bionet.software.x-plor YEAST bionet.molbio.yeast ZBRAFISH bionet.organisms.zebrafish + full name is BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings are directed to a moderator who later forwards messages (possibly modified) to the newsgroup. List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics ------------------------------- MAILING LIST NAME TOPIC ----------------- ----- ACEDB-SOFT Discussions by users and developers of genome databases using the ACEDB software. AFCR ** American Federation for Clinical Research announcements AGEING Discussions about ageing research AGROFORESTRY Discussions about agroforestry research AIBS ** American Institute of Biological Sciences announcements AMYLOID ** Forum for researchers on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders including prion diseases ARABIDOPSIS ** Newsgroup for the Arabidopsis Genome Project ASCB ** Announcements from The American Society for Cell Biology AUDIOLOGY Topics in audiology and hearing science BIOFILMS Research on microbial biofilms BIOFORUM Discussions about biological topics for which there is not yet a dedicated newsgroup AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** Research and support on automated DNA sequencing BIOCAN ** Newsgroup for the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies (CFBS) BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION- THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Applications of information theory to biology; this group is not for general information or for discussion of theories in general. BIONAUTS Question/answer forum for help using electronic networks, locating e-mail addresses, etc. BIONEWS ** General announcements of widespread interest to biologists BIO-JOURNALS ** Tables of Contents of biological journals BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** Official announcements/information from the Biophysical Society. BIOPHYSICS Discussion of issues related to the science and profession of biophysics BIO-SOFTWARE Information on software for the biological sciences BIO-SRS Discussions about the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) software BIOTECHNIQUES ** Discussions of articles in the journal Biotechniques BIOTHERMOKINETICS Discussions about the kinetics, thermodynamics and control of biological processes at the cellular level BIO-WWW ** Announcements about new information resources in biology which can be accessed via electronic networked information retrieval software CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Research discussions in cardiovascular biology CELEGANS Research discussions on the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes CELL-BIOLOGY Discussions about cell biology including cancer research at the cellular level CHLAMYDOMONAS ** Discussions about the biology of the green alga Chlamydomonas and related genera CHROMOSOMES Discussions about mapping and sequencing of eucaryote chromosomes COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Mathematical and computer applications in biology CSM ** Announcements from the Canadian Society of Microbiologists. CYTONET Discussions about research on the cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, and cell wall DEEPSEA ** Research in deep-sea marine biology, oceanography, and geology DIAGNOSTICS ** Discussions of problems and techniques in all fields of diagnostics DROSOPHILA Discussions about biological research on Drosophila ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** Research and education in physiological ecology EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff EMF-BIO ** Discussions about research on electromagnetic field interactions with biological systems EMPLOYMENT ** Job opportunities in biology EMPLOYMENT-WANTED Forum for posting resumes/CVs by individuals seeking employment in the biological sciences or in support of the biological sciences FASEB ** Announcements from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS Research on fluorescent proteins and bioluminescence FREE-RADICALS ** Research on free radicals in biology and medicine G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Discussions about signal transducing receptors which interact with G-proteins GDB Messages to and from the Genome Data Bank staff GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff GENETIC-LINKAGE Newsgroup for genetic linkage analysis GENSTRUCTURE ** Genome and chromatin structure and function GLYCOSCI Discussions about carbohydrate and glycoconjugate molecules. GRASSES-SCIENCE Discussions regarding grasses, especially cereal, forage, and turf species HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** NIH-sponsored newsgroup on human genome issues IMMUNOLOGY Discussions about research in immunology INFO-GCG Discussions about the GCG sequence analysis software INSULIN-ACTION ** Discussions about the biology and chemistry of insulin and related receptors. JOURNAL-NOTES Practical advice on dealing with professional journals METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents MICROBIOLOGY Discussions about research in microbiology MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Discussions about research in molecular evolution MOLECULAR-MODELLING Discussions about molecular modelling MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** Generation and use of libraries of molecules MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** Discussions about research on mollusc DNA MYCOLOGY Discussions about research on filamentous fungi NAVBO ** Forum for the North American Vascular Biology Organization NEUROSCIENCE Discussions about research in the neurosciences N2-FIXATION Discussion about biological nitrogen fixation P450 Research on cytochrome P450 PARASITOLOGY Discussions about research in parasitology PEPTIDES ** Research involving peptides PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** Discussions about photosynthesis research PLANT-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in plant biology PLANT-EDUCATION Education issues in plant biology PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** Research on plant signal transduction POPULATION-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in population biology PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS Discussions about research in prenatal diagnostics PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Discussions about research on proteins and messages for the PIR and SWISS-PROT databank staffs PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Discussion about crystallography of macromolecules and messages for the PDB staff PROTISTA Discussions about research on ciliates and other protists PSEUDOMONADS Research on the genus Pseudomonas RAPD Discussions about Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA RECOMBINATION Research on the recombination of DNA or RNA SCHISTOSOMA ** Discussions about Schistosoma research SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Information from/about scientific funding agencies STADEN Discussions between scientists using the Staden molecular sequence analysis software STRUCTURAL-NMR ** Discussions about the use of NMR for macromolecular structure determination SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** Discussions about symbiosis research TIBS ** "Letters to the Editor" of "Trends in Biochemical Sciences" TOXICOLOGY Discussions about research in toxicology TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in tropical biology URODELES ** Discussions about research in urodele amphibian biology VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** Research and control of arthropods which transmit disease VIROLOGY ** Discussions about research in virology WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Discussions about issues concerning women biologists X-PLOR Discussions about the X-PLOR software for 3D macromolecular structure determination YEAST** Discussions about the molecular biology and genetics of yeast ZBRAFISH Discussions about research using the model organism Zebrafish (Danio rerio) ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings are directed to a moderator who later forwards messages (possibly modified) to the newsgroup. BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders ----------------------------------- Most scientific specialty newsgroups (except for a few created several years ago) have individuals who are responsible for stimulating discussion on the newsgroup. Discussion leaders, however, do not screen or edit messages to their newsgroups. General purpose forums such as METHODS-AND-REAGENTS do not have discussion leaders. If a group that you are interested in does not seem to have much activity recently, please contact the discussion leader and ask why. Groups marked with "**" are moderated. In this case the group leader is instead called the newsgroup "moderator." The moderator actually receives all postings by e-mail prior to public distribution, reviews them, and then decides on their suitability for distribution on their newsgroup. In most cases moderators usually do not edit messages themselves, but sometimes request the poster to modify their content prior to distribution. The moderation policy for each newsgroup is contained in the newsgroup's charter which is available at http://www.bio.net/ in each individual newsgroup archive. MAILING LIST NAME Discussion Leader or Moderator ----------------- ------------------------------ ACEDB-SOFT Mike Cherry (cherry@genome.stanford.edu) AFCR ** Jon T. Schafer (pp001101@interramp.com) AGEING Sydney Shall (bafa1@central.sussex.ac.uk) AGROFORESTRY Gerry Lawson (gjl@ite.ac.uk) AIBS ** Rebecca Chasan (moderator@aibs.org) AMYLOID ** David Small (david_small@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au) ARABIDOPSIS ** Charles Gasser Lab (atmod@ucdavis.edu) ASCB ** Vincent Shan (moderator@faseb.org) AUDIOLOGY Jeff Sirianni (sirianni@uts.cc.utexas.edu) and Susan Moreland (smorelan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** David Cain (dcain@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk) and Robert Feakes (rwf@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) BIOCAN ** Neil Haave (biocan@augustana.ab.ca) BIOFILMS Claus Sternberg (cs@im.dtu.dk) BIOFORUM None BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION- THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Tom Schneider (toms@ncifcrf.gov) BIONAUTS Rob Harper (harper@convex.csc.fi) BIONEWS ** Todd McGee (biosci-help@net.bio.net) BIO-JOURNALS ** Julie Lawrence (biosci-help@net.bio.net) BIO-MATRIX Dan Davison (davison@uh.edu) BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** Carol Gross (cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu) BIOPHYSICS Carol Gross (cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu) BIO-SOFTWARE None BIO-SRS Thure Etzold (etzold@embl-heidelberg.de) and Reinhard Doelz (doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch) BIOTECHNIQUES ** Mary McCarthy (mmccarthy@biotechnet.com) BIOTHERMOKINETICS John Woods (eanv20@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk) BIO-WWW ** Nicole Redaschi (redaschi@ebi.ac.uk) CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Zhandong Zhou (zhandong@macc.wisc.edu) CELEGANS William Morgan (wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu) CELL-BIOLOGY Ola Myklebost (ola.myklebost@dnr.uio.no) CHLAMYDOMONAS ** Elizabeth H. Harris (chlamy@acpub.duke.edu) CHROMOSOMES Bruce Roe (broe@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu) and Greg Lennon (greg@mendel.llnl.gov) COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Todd McGee (biosci-help@net.bio.net) CSM ** John Nash (csm@nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca) CYTONET Nicholas C. Carpita (carpita@btny.purdue.edu) DEEPSEA ** Andrew Grant McArthur (mcarthur@onyx.si.edu) DIAGNOSTICS ** Kevin O'Donnell (odonnell@sasa.gov.uk) and Robert Burns (burns@sasa.gov.uk) DROSOPHILA Michael Ashburner (m.ashburner@gen.cam.ac.uk) ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** Martyn M. Caldwell (mmc@cc.usu.edu) EMBL-DATABANK None (datalib@embl-heidelberg.de) EMF-BIO ** Allan H. Frey (afrey@uunet.uu.net) EMPLOYMENT ** Todd McGee (biosci-help@net.bio.net) EMPLOYMENT-WANTED None FASEB ** Vincent Shan (moderator@faseb.org) FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS Paul Kitts (paulki@clontech.com) Steve Kain (stevek@clontech.com) FREE-RADICALS ** Javier J. Zulueta (javier.zulueta@es.nemc.org) and Kevin Clancy PhD (clancy@eri.uchsc.edu) and Neil Hogg PhD (nhogg@post.its.mcw.edu) G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Lee F. Kolakowski, Jr. (kolakowski@uthscsa.edu) GDB Kerryn Brandt (kab@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu) GENBANK-BB Dennis Benson (benson@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) GENETIC-LINKAGE Steve Bryant (s_bryant@icrf.ac.uk) GENSTRUCTURE ** Graham Dellaire (dellaire@odyssee.net) GLYCOSCI Iain Wilson (iwilson@molbiol.ox.ac.uk) and Barry Hardy (bhardy@convex.ox.ac.uk) GRASSES-SCIENCE Allen Wright (adwright@iastate.edu) HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Mika Salminen (msalminen@nphi.fi) HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** Betty Mansfield (k76@ornl.gov) IMMUNOLOGY Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke@qucdn.queensu.ca) INFO-GCG John Cargill (ontogen@nic.cerf.net) INSULIN-ACTION ** T. S. Pillay (tpillay@ucsd.edu) JOURNAL-NOTES Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke@qucdn.queensu.ca) METHODS-AND-REAGENTS None MICROBIOLOGY Martin Latterich (Martin_Latterich@qm.salk.edu) MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Dan Davison (davison@uh.edu) MOLECULAR-MODELLING Philippe Stas (philstas@vub.ac.be) MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** Andrew Wallace (a.wallace@qub.ac.uk) MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** Elizabeth Grace Boulding (boulding@uoguelph.ca) MYCOLOGY Tom Adams (tom@bio.tamu.edu) Leland Ellis (leland@straylight.tamu.edu) Greg May (gsmay@bcm.tmc.edu) NAVBO ** Valeri Kolpakov (kolpakov@umich.edu) Steve Schwartz (steves@u.washington.edu) D. Gordon (David.Gordon@pobox.pds.med.umich.edu) NEUROSCIENCE Vincent A Mazzarella (vamg6792@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) James L. Olds (olds@anatomy.org) N2-FIXATION Eng-Leong Foo (eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum@mica.mic.ki.se) P450 Dr. A. Zimmerlin (Alfred.zimmerlin@fmi.ch) PARASITOLOGY Daniel R. Brooks, Sherwin S. Desser and Henry Hong (parasite@zoo.toronto.edu) PEPTIDES ** Michael Breslav (mbreslav@rarusraexs1.prius.jnj.com) and Christopher Gross (cmgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu) and Terry Mulcahy (tmulcahy@medusa.unm.edu) PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** Larry Orr (larry.orr@asu.edu) PLANT-BIOLOGY Tony Travis (ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk) PLANT-EDUCATION Jonathan D. Monroe (monroejd@jmu.edu) and Susan R. Singer (ssinger@carleton.edu) PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** Bratislav Stankovic (stankovic.1@osu.edu) POPULATION-BIOLOGY None PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS Aneal Chandra (chandra@cardiff.ac.uk) and David Miller (davidm@pathology.leeds.ac.uk) and Tim Reynolds (timreyno@burton.demon.co.uk) PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Amos Bairoch (bairoch@cmu.unige.ch) and John Garavelli (garavelli@nbrf.georgetown.edu) PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Morten Kjeldgaard (morten@oase.kemi.aau.dk) PROTISTA Marsha Altschule (marsha.i.altschuler@williams.edu) and Mark Farmer (farmer@emlab.zoo.uga.edu) PSEUDOMONADS Bruce W. Ritchings (bwr@icbr.ifas.ufl.edu) RAPD James Farmer (jlfarmer@bioag.byu.edu) RECOMBINATION Graham Dellaire (popa0206@po-box.mcgill.ca) and George Szatmari (szat@ere.umontreal.ca) and Terry Chow (MDTY@musica.mcgill.ca) and Dana Lasko (CZDL@musica.mcgill.ca) SCHISTOSOMA ** Christoph Grevelding (Christoph.Grevelding@uni-duesseldorf.de) SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Julie Lawrence (biosci-help@net.bio.net) and Todd McGee (biosci-help@net.bio.net) STADEN Tim Littlejohn (tim@bch.umontreal.ca) STRUCTURAL-NMR ** C. S. Raman (raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu) SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** James F. White, Jr. (jwhite@aesop.rutgers.edu) TIBS ** Jo McEntyre (TIBS@elsevier.co.uk) and Todd McGee (biosci-help@net.bio.net) TOXICOLOGY Charles A. Miller (rellim@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu) TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Matti Nummelin (mnummelin@cc.helsinki.fi) URODELES ** Susan Duhon (duhon@ucs.indiana.edu) and Anthony Mescher (mescher@ucs.indiana.edu) VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** Dennis Knudson (dknudson@lamar.colostate.edu) and Martin Ferguson (martinf@lamar.colostate.edu) VIROLOGY ** Marnix L. Bosch (marnix@saul.u.washington.edu) and Brett Lindenbach (bdl@borcim.wustl.edu) and Thomas Pfitzner (thomas.pfitzner@stud.uni-regensburg.de) WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Cassandra Smith (cls@buenga.bu.edu) X-PLOR Axel T. Brunger (brunger@laplace.csb.yale.edu) YEAST Francis Ouellette (francis@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) ZBRAFISH Richard Vogt (vogt@biol.scarolina.edu) and Una Smith (smith-una@yale.edu) ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated. Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software -------------------------------------------------- Users who have access to USENET news software and the bionet USENET groups can participate immediately, i.e., they do not need to "subscribe" to anything. They can read and reply to messages using their local news software (e.g., the newsreader contained in the Netscape WWW browser) and post new messages of their own. Users will have to consult their local systems managers for help in using news software. There are many different programs available and the BIOSCI staff can not provide training in news software use. Fortunately, most news software is fairly simple to use and can be learned quickly. When posting new messages, USENET users should be sure to set the message "distribution" to "world" or else your message may not be distributed beyond your local computer. In most cases, messages are posted directly to the newsgroups without editorial intervention. Some groups (indicated in the lists above) are "moderated," however. This means that postings to these newsgroups will be sent to the newsgroup moderator who will decide whether or not the message is suitable for posting to the newsgroup in question. Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail --------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO USENET NEWS YOU DO NOT NEED AN E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION!! Simply read and post to the newsgroups in the "bionet" newsgroup hierarchy using your USENET news software. E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information -------------------------------------------------- For users in Europe, Africa, and Central Asian countries, e-mail subscription and cancellation requests are handled automatically by an e-mail server, although personal assistance is also available via the biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk address. Once your e-mail address is added to a subscription list, mail will be sent to your address automatically each time someone posts a message. This will continue until you remove your address from the subscription list. You should first send the lists command to the address Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk to obtain a listing of all current BIOSCI mailing lists. You may leave your message Subject: line blank in any message that is sent to the server (text on the Subject: line is *not* processed). Please place all commands only in the body of your mail message. Please be sure to substitute the appropriate mailing list name obtained from the "lists" command output for "listname" in the subscribe or unsubscribe commands illustrated below. The "listname" in subscription commands is always the <= 8 character mailing address for the mailing list (see also the table of mailing addresses further below). For example, the mailing address for the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS mailing list is methods@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. To determine the "listname" to use with the "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" commands, take the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, in this case "methods" is the listname derived from "methods@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk". After obtaining the names of the mailing lists using the "lists" command or by consulting the mailing address table further below, use the subscribe listname or unsubscribe listname commands to add or delete your address from the mailing lists. Please substitute "listname" above with the appropriate name of the list that you want to join/cancel. If you are trying to unsubscribe from a list but your address has changed, please see the instructions below in the section entitle "E-mail Address Changes." This section assumes that you are always operating from the same e-mail address. !!! PLEASE BE SURE to send all subscribe or unsubscribe commands only to !!! the Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk address and not to the newsgroup posting !!! addresses where they will bother all of the readers! Your e-mail address is obtained automatically from the header of your mail message and should NOT be included on the subscribe/unsubscribe command line unless you need to sign up at a different address than the one you are currently using. Such requests must be handled manually by us and create extra work. (Also you would be surprised at how many people list their e-mail addresses incorrectly which then results in nondelivery of mail, so please let our server obtain this information automatically from your mail header.) Multiple commands may be placed on separate lines in the same mail message, i.e., you can include all of your subscribe and/or unsubscribe requests in one mail message as long as each is on a separate line. If you put multiple commands in your mail message, please put an end command as the last in your list of commands. This helps avoid sending to the server any signatures that might be automatically included in your mail messages. Here is a sample subscription message. The address public@camford.ac.uk would be automatically added to the BIONEWS and GRASSES-SCIENCE mailing lists as the result of this message. Note that the listname for GRASSES-SCIENCE is "grasses" as derived from the address portion to the left of the @ sign in the mailing address for GRASSES-SCIENCE (see address table further below). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk From: J.Q. Public Subject: subscribe bionews subscribe grasses end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other command details are included in the mail server help file from Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. To get the server help file (in computerese 8-), send in the help command to the server address. Finding Your Current E-mail Subscription List --------------------------------------------- If you are already a BIOSCI e-mail subscriber and need to determine which mailing lists you are on currently, send the command which to Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk if you are signed up under the address that appears on the From: line of your mail message. If your address has changed, you can put a search string after the "which" command, e.g., if you are certain than your user name has always been jqpublic but do not remember the computer hostname, send the command which jqpublic This will find all instances of the text "jqpublic" on all mailing lists. E-mail Address Changes ---------------------- If you have subscribed to a newsgroup and are now leaving an institution or changing your e-mail address, it is imperative that you cancel your subscription! Non-existent addresses or overflowing mailboxes cause computer mail programs to send back "daemon" messages which might bother everybody on the newsgroup. In addition, mail systems continue for several days to try to contact bad addresses. This wastes CPU resources and slows mail delivery to others. We will eventually remove any address causing such a problem, but would prefer it if you would take care of changes in advance as a courtesy to the rest of the user community. To unsubscribe from the BIOSCI lists at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk, you will have to send mail from the e-mail account which has the same address as the one on our mailing lists. The server software only allows automatic cancellation of subscriptions if the e-mail address on your From: line of your "unsubscribe" message matches exactly the addresses on our lists (except for case differences). If the match is not exact, the server will send you an error message saying you are not on the lists. You can determine which mailing lists you are on by sending one of the two following commands to the server address Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. Please be sure to put all commands in the *body* of the mail message as any text put on the Subject: line is ignored by the server. which (the which command finds exact matches to your From: address) OR which xxx where xxx is any text, i.e., part or all of an e-mail address. The "which" command by itself will only find addresses on our list which match exactly (except for possible case differences) the address on the From: line of your mail message. If you are looking for an old address you will need to use the "which xxx" command. As an example of the "which" command output using the string "ajb@dl" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- which ajb@dl The string 'ajb@dl' appears in the following entries in lists served by biosci-server@net.bio.net: List Address ==== ======= faseb ajb@dl.ac.uk tibs ajb@dl.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The List names appear in the left hand column of the output. Please note your list names for use in the "unsubscribe" commands described below. If your address on our lists differs from your current address, you will not be able to unsubscribe automatically, so please forward the output of the "which xxx" command to biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk and ask to have the old address removed manually. If your address is still the same as the one on our lists, you can cancel your subscriptions automatically by sending in a message to Majordomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk such as the following unsubscribe bionews unsubscribe molmodel unsubscribe bioforum end where you have used the listnames as determined from the "which" command output after the "unsubscribe" command. Once again, if "which" does not return any output to you unless you follow it by a text string, e.g., which xxx, you will *not* be able to unsubscribe automatically. Please follow the alternative instructions for manual address removal above. Interruption of E-mail Service ------------------------------ It is our policy to remove any address from our mailing lists which becomes inaccessible and causes mail to bounce back to the sender. This might happen to you if your local computer or network fails for a significant period of time. If you notice that you are no longer receiving BIOSCI postings, it may be because your address was removed for the above reason. It will be necessary for you to contact biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk and resubscribe. Please see the BIOSCI FAQ, mentioned at the beginning of this document, for more details on how BIOSCI handles addresses which reject mail. Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail ---------------------------------------- Those who use e-mail to post messages should send their mail to the following addresses in the U.K.: ********************************************************************** DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT POST SUBSCRIPTION OR CANCELLATION REQUESTS DIRECTLY TO ANY OF THE NEWSGROUP E-MAIL POSTING ADDRESSES. PLEASE USE ONLY THE ADDRESS biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk for subscription or cancellation requests as explained above. Your posting could go to several thousand people. Supposing that each person spends a couple of seconds to figure out that you did this, before they go on to the next message. You will have wasted the equivalent of several hours of one person's time, not to mention wasted computer time and disk storage. ********************************************************************** MAILING LIST NAME Mailing Address ----------------- ---------------- ACEDB-SOFT acedb@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AFCR ** afcr@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AGEING ageing@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AGROFORESTRY ag-forst@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AIBS ** aibslist@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AMYLOID ** amyloid@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk ARABIDOPSIS ** arab-gen@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk ASCB ** ascb@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AUDIOLOGY audiolog@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** autoseq@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOCAN ** biocan@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOFORUM bioforum@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bio-info@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIONAUTS bio-naut@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIONEWS ** bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-JOURNALS ** bio-jrnl@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-MATRIX biomatrx@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bphyssoc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOPHYSICS biophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-SOFTWARE bio-soft@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-SRS bio-srs@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOTECHNIQUES ** btechniq@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIOTHERMOKINETICS btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk BIO-WWW ** bio-www@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH cardiors@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CELEGANS celegans@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CELL-BIOLOGY cellbiol@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CHLAMYDOMONAS ** chlamy@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CHROMOSOMES biochrom@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CSM ** csm@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk CYTONET cytonet@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk DEEPSEA ** deepsea@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk DIAGNOSTICS ** diagnost@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk DROSOPHILA dros@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** ecophys@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk EMBL-DATABANK embl-db@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk EMF-BIO ** emf-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT ** biojobs@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk EMPLOYMENT-WANTED wantjob@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk FASEB ** faseb@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS fluorpro@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk FREE-RADICALS ** freerad@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR 7tms_r@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GDB gdb@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GENBANK-BB genbankb@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GENETIC-LINKAGE gen-link@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GENSTRUCTURE ** genstruc@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GLYCOSCI glycosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk GRASSES-SCIENCE grasses@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY hiv-biol@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** gnome-pr@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk IMMUNOLOGY immuno@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk INFO-GCG info-gcg@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk INSULIN-ACTION ** insulin@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk JOURNAL-NOTES jrnlnote@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk METHODS-AND-REAGENTS methods@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MICROBIOLOGY microbio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION mol-evol@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MOLECULAR-MODELLING molmodel@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** molreps@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** molluscs@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk MYCOLOGY mycology@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk NAVBO ** navbo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk NEUROSCIENCE neur-sci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk N2-FIXATION n2fix@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PARASITOLOGY parasite@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PEPTIDES ** peptides@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** photosyn@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PLANT-BIOLOGY plantbio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PLANT-EDUCATION plant-ed@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** plsignal@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk POPULATION-BIOLOGY pop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS prenatal@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PROTEIN-ANALYSIS proteins@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY xtal-log@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PROTISTA protista@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk PSEUDOMONADS pseudomo@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk RAPD rapd@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk RECOMBINATION recom@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk SCHISTOSOMA ** schisto@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** sci-res@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk STADEN staden@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk STRUCTURAL-NMR ** str-nmr@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** symbios@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk TIBS ** tibs@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk TOXICOLOGY toxicol@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk TROPICAL-BIOLOGY trop-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk URODELES ** urodeles@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** vect-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk VIROLOGY ** virology@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY womenbio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk X-PLOR x-plor@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk YEAST yeast@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk ZBRAFISH zbrafish@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk + full name is BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY ** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings are directed to a moderator who later forwards messages (possibly modified) to the newsgroup. Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives -------------------------------------------------- All BIOSCI newsgroups are archived on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups ----------------------------- To assist areas of research in developing their own electronic communication forums, BIOSCI at net.bio.net will set up, on request, a mailing list *without* an associated USENET newsgroup. The mailing list is created only at net.bio.net, the U.S. BIOSCI node, and all subscription requests must be sent to the e-mail server at biosci-server@net.bio.net regardless of one's geographical location. There is no charge for this or any other BIOSCI service. This procedure waives the rule that requires each new newsgroup proposal to be put to a vote of the readership first (see the BIOSCI FAQ, mentioned at the beginning of this document, for details on creating new full-fledged newsgroups and prototype newsgroups). Each mailing list ("prototype newsgroup") must have a scientist volunteer to serve as its discussion leader and an initial list of e-mail subscribers. The prototype newsgroup has six months to build up its readership after which time it is put out for a vote for full newsgroup status (i.e., to have both a mailing list *and* parallel USENET newsgroup created at both BIOSCI nodes in the U.S. and U.K.). If you are interested in establishing such a forum for your research specialty, please contact biosci-help@net.bio.net. The current prototype newsgroups are listed below. Please send subscription requests to biosci-server@net.bio.net and NOT to the newsgroup posting addresses. Posting Address Purpose --------------- ------- annelida@net.bio.net Discussions of the scientific study of Phylum Annelida bigblue@net.bio.net Discussions between researchers who use transgenic animal systems for mutation assays. bioherv@net.bio.net Discussions about human endogenous retroviral elements. maize@net.bio.net Research on maize. mutation@net.bio.net Discussions about mutation research. phbiotec@net.bio.net Discussions about research in pharmaceutical biotechnology. radoncjc@net.bio.net Radiation Oncology journal club (moderated list) rna@net.bio.net Discussions about RNA editing, RNA splicing, and ribozyme activities of RNA. rust-mil@net.bio.net Research about the biotrophic foliar fungal diseases of cereals, including rusts, powdery mildews and downy mildews. yac@net.bio.net Discussions about yeast artificial chromosomes. Retrieving Other BIOSCI Documentation ------------------------------------- BIOSCI documents are kept on the WWW at http://www.bio.net/BIOSCI/docs.html. Documents can also be retrieved by addressing e-mail to the Internet address biosci-server@net.bio.net and including any of the commands below in the body of your mail message. Text placed on the Subject: line of your message is ignored, so please be sure that the commands are in the body of the mail message. Although multiple commands may be placed in one message, we recommend instead that one message be sent per command to avoid having to extract multiple documents from a single message. The server sends back all information requested from a multiple command query in a single response message. Document to Retrieve Command to send to biosci-server@net.bio.net -------------------- -------------------------------------------- BIOSCI FAQ info faq (Frequently Asked ?'s about using BIOSCI) BIOSCI info sheet for the Americas & Pacific Rim info usinfo BIOSCI info sheet for Europe, Africa, & Central Asia info ukinfo FURTHER QUESTIONS??? Please address them to biosci@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk. PLEASE DO NOT DIRECT BIOSCI QUESTIONS TO THE PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF PEOPLE ON THE BIOSCI STAFF!! DUE TO OUR VOLUME OF MAIL, ANSWERS MAY BE DELAYED OR NOT SENT AT ALL!!