BIOSCI Newsgroups Information - Europe, Africa, Central Asia
Dave Kristofferson
kristoff at net.bio.net
Wed Jun 1 03:03:01 EST 1994
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THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET
(last revised 18-MAY-94)
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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 at 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.
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 by gopher to
net.bio.net or anonymous FTP to net.bio.net [134.172.2.69] in
pub/BIOSCI/doc/biosci.FAQ. It may also be requested by sending e-mail
to biosci-server at 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.
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Contents of this Document
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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
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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 the National Science
Foundation, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health in
the U.S.A. and by the Science and Engineering Research Council
Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom. BIOSCI services are
available to users free of charge.
BIOSCI messages are distributed by two means: USENET news software and
electronic mail.
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
software may already be available on a machine at your institution) or
contact biosci-help at net.bio.net for a list of software available free
of charge on the Internet. 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
manually retrieve lost messages from the archives 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.
Fortunately, BIOSCI offers advantages for e-mail users too. By having
distribution sites or "nodes" on each major network, BIOSCI allows its
e-mail users to contact people around the world without having to
learn a variety of computer addressing tricks. Any user can simply
post a message to his/her regional BIOSCI node and copies of that
message will be distributed automatically to all other subscribers on
all of the participating networks, including the Internet, USENET,
BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET.
List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
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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
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ACEDB-SOFT bionet.software.acedb
AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing
AGROFORESTRY bionet.agroforestry
ARABIDOPSIS bionet.genome.arabidopsis
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
BIOTHERMOKINETICS bionet.metabolic-reg
CELL-BIOLOGY bionet.cellbiol
CHLAMYDOMONAS bionet.chlamydomonas
CHROMOSOMES bionet.genome.chromosomes
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** bionet.biology.computational
CYTONET bionet.cellbiol.cytonet
DROSOPHILA bionet.drosophila
EMBL-DATABANK bionet.molbio.embldatabank
EMPLOYMENT bionet.jobs
GDB bionet.molbio.gdb
GENBANK-BB bionet.molbio.genbank
GENETIC-LINKAGE bionet.molbio.gene-linkage
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
JOURNAL-NOTES bionet.journals.note
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION bionet.molbio.evolution
MYCOLOGY bionet.mycology
NEUROSCIENCE bionet.neuroscience
N2-FIXATION bionet.biology.n2-fixation
PARASITOLOGY bionet.parasitology
PHOTOSYNTHESIS bionet.photosynthesis
PLANT-BIOLOGY bionet.plants
POPULATION-BIOLOGY bionet.population-bio
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS bionet.molbio.proteins
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY bionet.xtallography
PROTISTA bionet.protista
RAPD bionet.molbio.rapd
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** bionet.sci-resources
STRUCTURAL-NMR bionet.structural-nmr
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY bionet.biology.tropical
VIROLOGY bionet.virology
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY bionet.women-in-bio
YEAST bionet.molbio.yeast
+ full name is BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings
are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages
(possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup.
List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics
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MAILING LIST NAME TOPIC
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ACEDB-SOFT Discussions by users and developers of genome
databases using the ACEDB software.
AGEING Discussions about ageing research
AGROFORESTRY Discussions about agroforestry research
ARABIDOPSIS Newsgroup for the Arabidopsis Genome Project
BIOFORUM Discussions about biological topics for
which there is not yet a dedicated newsgroup
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
BIOTHERMOKINETICS Discussions about the kinetics, thermodynamics
and control of biological processes at
the cellular level
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
CYTONET Discussions about research on the
cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, and
cell wall
DROSOPHILA Discussions about biological research on
Drosophila
EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff
EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities in biology (see BIOSCI
FAQ *before* posting commercial job openings)
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
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
JOURNAL-NOTES Practical advice on dealing with professional
journals
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Discussions about research in molecular evolution
MYCOLOGY Discussions about research on filamentous fungi
NEUROSCIENCE Discussions about research in the neurosciences
N2-FIXATION Discussion about biological nitrogen fixation
PARASITOLOGY Discussions about research in parasitology
PHOTOSYNTHESIS Discussions about photosynthesis research
PLANT-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in plant biology
POPULATION-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in population biology
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
RAPD Discussions about Randomly Amplified Polymorphic
DNA
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Information from/about scientific funding
agencies
STRUCTURAL-NMR Discussions about the use of NMR for
macromolecular structure determination
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in tropical biology
VIROLOGY Discussions about research in virology
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Discussions about issues concerning women
biologists
YEAST Discussions about the molecular biology
and genetics of yeast
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings
are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages
(possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup.
BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders
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Most scientific specialty newsgroups (except for a few created several
years ago) have individuals who are responsible for stimulating
discussion on the newsgroup. 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.
NEWSGROUP NAME Discussion Leader and their e-mail address
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ACEDB-SOFT Mike Cherry (cherry at genome.stanford.edu)
AGEING Sydney Shall (bafa1 at central.sussex.ac.uk)
AGROFORESTRY Gerry Lawson (F_GJL at vaxa.nerc-bush.ac.uk)
ARABIDOPSIS Chris Somerville (21847CRS at msu.edu)
BIOFORUM None
BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-
THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Tom Schneider (toms at ncifcrf.gov)
BIONAUTS Rob Harper (harper at convex.csc.fi)
BIONEWS ** David Kristofferson (kristoff at net.bio.net)
BIO-JOURNALS ** David Kristofferson (kristoff at net.bio.net)
BIO-MATRIX Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** David Kristofferson (kristoff at net.bio.net)
BIOPHYSICS Carol Gross (cgross at molbio.cbs.umn.edu)
BIO-SOFTWARE None
BIOTHERMOKINETICS John Woods (eanv20 at castle.edinburgh.ac.uk)
CELL-BIOLOGY Ola Myklebost (ola.myklebost at dnr.uio.no)
CHLAMYDOMONAS Elizabeth H. Harris (chlamy at acpub.duke.edu) and
Antonio R. Franco (bf1rodri at cc.uco.es)
CHROMOSOMES Bruce Roe (broe at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu) and
Greg Lennon (greg at mendel.llnl.gov)
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Phil J. Curtiss (curtiss at umiacs.umd.edu)
CYTONET Nicholas C. Carpita (carpita at btny.purdue.edu)
DROSOPHILA Michael Ashburner (m.ashburner at gen.cam.ac.uk)
EMBL-DATABANK None (datalib at embl-heidelberg.de)
EMPLOYMENT None
GDB Kerryn Brandt (kab at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu)
GENBANK-BB Dennis Benson (benson at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
GENETIC-LINKAGE Steve Bryant (s_bryant at icrf.ac.uk)
GRASSES-SCIENCE Allen Wright (adwright at iastate.edu)
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Mika Salminen (msalminen at nphi.fi)
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM Jane Peterson (jp2 at cu.nih.gov)
IMMUNOLOGY Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
INFO-GCG John Cargill (ontogen at nic.cerf.net)
JOURNAL-NOTES Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS None
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
MYCOLOGY Tom Adams (tom at bio.tamu.edu)
Leland Ellis (leland at straylight.tamu.edu)
Greg May (gsmay at bcm.tmc.edu)
NEUROSCIENCE Vincent A Mazzarella (vamg6792 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
James L. Olds (olds at bernard.ninds.nih.gov)
N2-FIXATION Eng-Leong Foo
(eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum at mica.mic.ki.se)
PARASITOLOGY Daniel R. Brooks, Sherwin S. Desser and
Henry Hong (parasite at zoo.toronto.edu)
PHOTOSYNTHESIS Johnathan Marder (marder at agri.huji.ac.il)
PLANT-BIOLOGY Tony Travis (ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk)
POPULATION-BIOLOGY None
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Amos Bairoch (bairoch at cmu.unige.ch) and
John Garavelli (garavelli at nbrf.georgetown.edu)
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Morten Kjeldgaard (morten at oase.kemi.aau.dk)
PROTISTA Marsha Altschule
(marsha.i.altschuler at williams.edu) and
Mark Farmer (farmer at emlab.zoo.uga.edu)
RAPD James Farmer (farmerj at yvax.byu.edu)
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** David Kristofferson (kristoff at net.bio.net)
STRUCTURAL-NMR C. S. Raman (raman at bioc01.uthscsa.edu)
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Matti Nummelin (saarikko at cc.helsinki.fi)
VIROLOGY Robert Coelen (robert at arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au)
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Cassandra Smith (cls at buenga.bu.edu)
YEAST Francis Ouellette (francis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated.
Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software
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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., "nn" or "rn") 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 "bionet" 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
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the message is suitable for posting to the newsgroup in question.
Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail
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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
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Once your e-mail address is added to a subscription list, mail will be
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please send a message to the address
MXT at dl.ac.uk
NOTE!!
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E-mail Address Changes
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Non-existent addresses or overflowing mailboxes cause computer mail
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courtesy to the rest of the user community.
Interruption of E-mail Service
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BIOSCI handles addresses which reject mail.
Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail
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following addresses in the U.K.:
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MAILING LIST NAME Mailing Address
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ACEDB-SOFT acedb at daresbury.ac.uk
AGEING ageing at daresbury.ac.uk
AGROFORESTRY ag-forst at daresbury.ac.uk
ARABIDOPSIS arab-gen at daresbury.ac.uk
BIOFORUM bioforum at daresbury.ac.uk
BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bio-info at daresbury.ac.uk
BIONAUTS bio-naut at daresbury.ac.uk
BIONEWS ** bionews at daresbury.ac.uk
BIO-JOURNALS ** bio-jrnl at daresbury.ac.uk
BIO-MATRIX biomatrx at daresbury.ac.uk
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bphyssoc at daresbury.ac.uk
BIOPHYSICS biophys at daresbury.ac.uk
BIO-SOFTWARE bio-soft at daresbury.ac.uk
BIOTHERMOKINETICS btk-mca at daresbury.ac.uk
CELL-BIOLOGY cellbiol at daresbury.ac.uk
CHLAMYDOMONAS chlamy at daresbury.ac.uk
CHROMOSOMES biochrom at daresbury.ac.uk
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** comp-bio at daresbury.ac.uk
CYTONET cytonet at daresbury.ac.uk
DROSOPHILA dros at daresbury.ac.uk
EMBL-DATABANK embl-db at daresbury.ac.uk
EMPLOYMENT biojobs at daresbury.ac.uk
GDB gdb at daresbury.ac.uk
GENBANK-BB genbankb at daresbury.ac.uk
GENETIC-LINKAGE gen-link at daresbury.ac.uk
GRASSES-SCIENCE grasses at daresbury.ac.uk
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY hiv-biol at daresbury.ac.uk
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM gnome-pr at daresbury.ac.uk
IMMUNOLOGY immuno at daresbury.ac.uk
INFO-GCG info-gcg at daresbury.ac.uk
JOURNAL-NOTES jrnlnote at daresbury.ac.uk
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS methods at daresbury.ac.uk
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION mol-evol at daresbury.ac.uk
MYCOLOGY mycology at daresbury.ac.uk
NEUROSCIENCE neur-sci at daresbury.ac.uk
N2-FIXATION n2fix at daresbury.ac.uk
PARASITOLOGY parasite at daresbury.ac.uk
PHOTOSYNTHESIS photosyn at daresbury.ac.uk
PLANT-BIOLOGY plantbio at daresbury.ac.uk
POPULATION-BIOLOGY pop-bio at daresbury.ac.uk
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS proteins at daresbury.ac.uk
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY xtal-log at daresbury.ac.uk
PROTISTA protista at daresbury.ac.uk
RAPD rapd at daresbury.ac.uk
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** sci-res at daresbury.ac.uk
STRUCTURAL-NMR str-nmr at daresbury.ac.uk
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY trop-bio at daresbury.ac.uk
VIROLOGY virology at daresbury.ac.uk
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY womenbio at daresbury.ac.uk
YEAST yeast at daresbury.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 (editor) who later forwards messages
(possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup.
Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives
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to search the BIOSCI archives located at net.bio.net as described in
the BIOSCI FAQ. E-mail users can retrieve messages from our waismail
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help
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of your message blank.
BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups
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communication forums, BIOSCI at net.bio.net will set up on request a
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USENET newsgroup created at both BIOSCI nodes in the U.S. and U.K.).
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again.
Posting Address Purpose
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biocan at net.bio.net An unmoderated forum established by the
Canadian Federation of Biological Societies
(CFBS) to serve as a multidisciplinary forum
for the exchange of information within the
Canadian biological and biomedical science
community.
biogopher at net.bio.net A communication forum for all Bio-Gopher
administrators.
emf-bio at net.bio.net Discussions on the electromagnetic field
interactions with biological systems.
rna at net.bio.net Discussions about RNA editing, RNA splicing,
and ribozyme activities of RNA.
staden-users at net.bio.net Discussions about the Staden Package for
molecular sequence analysis.
urodeles at net.bio.net Discussions among research scientists
using urodele amphibians (axolotls,
salamanders, and newts) in any biological
field.
yac at net.bio.net Dicussions about yeast artificial chromosomes
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