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Name : listdoc.txt
Version: 1.00 / February 3, 1994
Concern: List of documents concerning molecular biology oriented services,
software, email servers, FTP sites, etc.
Author : Amos Bairoch / Dept. Medical Biochemistry
University of Geneva / Switzerland
Email to: bairoch at cmu.unige.ch
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All the documents listed below are available:
- By anonymous FTP from: expasy.hcuge.ch (129.195.254.61)
In the directory: /databases/info
- By the World-Wide Web (WWW) from the ExPASy molecular biology server
The URL for the ExPASy is: http://expasy.hcuge.ch/
- On the PC/Gene data banks CD-ROM disk 2 in the directory: \OTHERS\INFO
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General information documents or documents describing specific orgnizations
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serv_ema .txt List of molecular biology email servers
serv_ftp .txt List of molecular biology FTP servers for databases and software
serv_bbo .txt List of bulletin boards services for molecular biologists
atcc .txt Internet access to catalog data at ATCC
biosci .txt BIOSCI electronic newsgroup network
biotechn .txt BioTechNET; global computer network for research biologists
bisance .txt BISANCE, French service for access to biomolecular sequence d.b.
ddbj .txt Brief Outline of DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan)
ebi .txt The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
embl .txt EMBL Data Library Products and Services
embnet .txt EMBnet: European Molecular Biology Data Network
embnet92 .txt Article about the EMBnet Project by R. Doelz
faq_bio .txt Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about BIOSCI/bionet
faq_meth .txt Frequently Asked Questions for bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
gdbomim .txt GDB (Genome D.B.) & OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
genbank .txt List of GenBank services
hovergen .txt Homologous Vertebrate Genes Data Base
icgeb .txt Int. Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
ig_prod .txt Summary of IntelliGenetics software and services
interbio .txt Una Smith Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources
msdn .txt Services provided by the Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN)
ncbi .txt Goals of the National Center for Biotechnology Informat. (NCBI)
nir .txt Network information retrieval (NIR), a summary
yeast_em .txt Yeast researchers Email address list
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Documents describing email servers
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bioscan .srv BioSCAN [Similarity searches]
bioserve .srv BIOSERVE [Retrieval of various documents and software]
blast .srv NCBI BLAST [Similarity searches]
blitz .srv EMBL BLITZ [Similarity searches]
blocks .srv BLOCKS [Similarity searches against BLOCK; retrieval]
dapmail .srv DAPMAIL [Similarity searches]
darwin .srv Darwin [Various analytical functions]
dflash .srv dFLASH [Similarity searches]
estmail .srv NCBI EST [Retrieval of Expressed sequence tag sequences]
fastamai .srv EMBL FASTA [Similarity searches]
flatserv .srv Flat DB [Retrieval of sequences from databases]
gdbomim .srv GDB/OMIM [Retrieval of GDB and OMIM data]
geneid .srv Geneid [Protein coding region prediction]
genmark .srv GenMark [Protein coding region prediction]
genquest .srv GenQuest [Similarity searches]
grail .srv Grail [Protein coding region prediction]
houston .srv Gene-Server [Retrieval of sequences and software]
mowse .srv MOWSE [Peptide mass fingerprint]
netgene .srv NetGene [Protein coding region prediction]
netserv .srv EMBL NetServ [Retrieval of software, doc and databases]
nnpredic .srv nnpredict [Protein secondary structure prediction]
pir .srv PIR [Retrieval of sequences & similarity searches]
predprot .srv PredictProtein [Protein secondary structure prediction]
pythia .srv Pyhia [Identification of repetitive DNA elements]
quickmai .srv QUICKSEARCH [Similarity searches]
rdp .srv RDP [Retrieval of data/soft. from Rib. Db. Project]
retrieve .srv NCBI RETRIEVE [Retrieval of sequences from databases]
sbase .srv SBASE [Similarity searches against SBASE]
springer .srv Springer [Retrieval of table of contents of journals]
tm7 .srv TM7 [Retrieval of data on G protein-coupled recep.]
waismail .srv WaisMail [Retrieval of BIOSCI postings and other doc.]
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Documents describing FTP servers
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gdbnetjp .ftp Genome Database Network in Japan (GDBnetJP) FTP server
gdbomim .ftp How to access GDB & OMIM files via FTP
iubio .ftp IUBIO FTP archive
pdb .ftp Protein Data Bank via FTP
suhgmc .ftp Stanford University human genome mapping center FTP server
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Documents describing software packages
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anthepro .sof ANTHEPROT; protein analysis software package
biosim .sof BIOSIM; biologically oriented neural network simulator
blaze .sof BLAZE, massively parallel sequence similarity search program
clever .sof Clever: COmmand Line Entrez VERsion
detect .sof DETECT; a program that locates errors in DNA sequences
dnawkbn .sof DNA WorkBench; a program for sequence searching and manipulation
dsce .sof DCSE, multiple sequence alignment editor (DOS,VMS,IRIX)
egcg .sof EGCG; package of 65 programs which extend the GCG package
emblsoft .sof List of DOS, Mac, Unix, VAX soft. available from EMBL file serv.
gbsoft .sof GenBank Software Clearinghouse
gdb_lite .sof GDB-Lite; browsing and data entry tool for the Genome Data Base
icatools .sof ICAtools; clustering and database searching programs
mega .sof MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis
ods .sof ODS; Ordering DNA Sequences ("contig mapping")
oxford .sof University of Oxford software packages (alscript, amps, etc.)
pcap .sof PCAP; probe choice and analysis package
phylogen .sof Some available phylogeny programs
proanal .sof ProAnal; analysis of relationship between structure/activity
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CAVEATS
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- Except for the serv_ftp.txt, serv_ema.txt and serv_bbo.txt documents, we are
not responsible for the content of these documents.
- We try to regularily update these documents by accessing recent copies
from the orginal providers, but we can not insure that we store the most
recent version.
- If you have a document that you wish to be added to this list, please send
it to my email address (this is also valid for updates/comments):
bairoch at cmu.unige.ch
