Almost time to update the mailing list (plus more admin items) 8-)!!

[David Kristofferson]

Two items of note below:

1) The transition of GenBank to NCBI has kept me out of trouble for
quite a while but I will be in a position in a few more days to start
doing another update of the Arabidopsis address directory.

This time around we should probably atomize the fields so that the
information can be put more easily into an RDBMS if anyone so desires
(we will continue to provide a flat text file for FTP from here).

I know that Mike Cherry and others are running various databases for
the Arabidopsis community, so I would appreciate any input that you
might have in terms of design of the address form.  After the data is
collected and compiled, my goal is to have it be useful to as many
other resources as possible.


2) We are now running on a different machine called net.bio.net.  The
old machine genbank.bio.net is not in use although the
arab-gen at genbank.bio.net address is forwarded to this new machine.  I
would encourage you to change the e-mail posting address that you use
to

     arab-gen at net.bio.net


We have just brought the FTP archives back up on this new machine and
the ARABIDOPSIS material can be retrieved by anonymous FTP to

net.bio.net   [134.172.2.69]

in the directory pub/BIOSCI/ARABIDOPSIS (case is important here).

Arabidopsis postings as well as all other BIOSCI newsgroup postings
can also be searched through the BIOSCI WAIS source (biosci.src at
net.bio.net).  Note that the main WAIS directory of servers has not
yet updated our source information.  I posted a "fix" to circumvent
this to BIONEWS/bionet.announce a couple of days back and I'll be
happy as usual to assist anyone who has problems.

We also intend to provide complete BIOSCI FTP archives and Gopher
access fairly soon.

I will be at Plant Genome I to give a talk about BIOSCI at 1 PM on
Monday, Nov. the 9th.  I look forward to meeting some of you there.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIOSCI/bionet Manager

				kristoff at net.bio.net


P.S. - Here is the revised BIOSCI info sheet which reflects all of the
new address changes.


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