---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET (last revised June-2006) (last-last revised 14-JULY-97) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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. 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 Finding Your Current E-mail Subscription List 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. 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We now rely on our readers and sponsors cooperation to continue the service, so we appreciate your help. If your organization is interested in sponsoring BIOSCI, please contact us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail ---------------------------------------- Those who use e-mail to post messages should send their mail to the following Internet addresses in the USA: ********************************************************************** DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT POST SUBSCRIPTION OR CANCELLATION REQUESTS DIRECTLY TO ANY OF THE NEWSGROUP E-MAIL POSTING ADDRESSES. 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. ********************************************************************** MAILING LIST NAME Mailing Address ----------------- ---------------- ACEDB-SOFT acedb@net.bio.net AFCR ** afcr@net.bio.net AGEING ageing@net.bio.net AGROFORESTRY ag-forst@net.bio.net AIBS ** aibslist@net.bio.net AMYLOID ** amyloid@net.bio.net ARABIDOPSIS ** arab-gen@net.bio.net ASCB ** ascb@net.bio.net AUDIOLOGY audiolog@net.bio.net AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** autoseq@net.bio.net BIOCAN ** biocan@net.bio.net BIOFORUM bioforum@net.bio.net BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bio-info@net.bio.net BIONAUTS bio-naut@net.bio.net BIONEWS ** bionews@net.bio.net BIO-JOURNALS ** bio-jrnl@net.bio.net BIO-MATRIX biomatrx@net.bio.net BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bphyssoc@net.bio.net BIOPHYSICS biophys@net.bio.net BIO-SOFTWARE bio-soft@net.bio.net BIO-SRS bio-srs@net.bio.net BIOTECHNIQUES ** btechniq@net.bio.net BIOTHERMOKINETICS btk-mca@net.bio.net BIO-WWW ** bio-www@net.bio.net CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH cardiors@net.bio.net CELEGANS celegans@net.bio.net CELL-BIOLOGY cellbiol@net.bio.net CHLAMYDOMONAS ** chlamy@net.bio.net CHROMOSOMES biochrom@net.bio.net COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** comp-bio@net.bio.net CSM ** csm@net.bio.net CYTONET cytonet@net.bio.net DEEPSEA ** deepsea@net.bio.net DIAGNOSTICS ** diagnost@net.bio.net DROSOPHILA dros@net.bio.net ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** ecophys@net.bio.net EMBL-DATABANK embl-db@net.bio.net EMF-BIO ** emf-bio@net.bio.net EMPLOYMENT ** biojobs@net.bio.net EMPLOYMENT-WANTED wantjob@net.bio.net FASEB ** faseb@net.bio.net FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS fluorpro@net.bio.net FREE-RADICALS ** freerad@net.bio.net G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR 7tms_r@net.bio.net GDB gdb@net.bio.net GENBANK-BB genbankb@net.bio.net GENETIC-LINKAGE gen-link@net.bio.net GENSTRUCTURE ** genstruc@net.bio.net GLYCOSCI glycosci@net.bio.net GRASSES-SCIENCE grasses@net.bio.net HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY hiv-biol@net.bio.net HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** gnome-pr@net.bio.net IMMUNOLOGY immuno@net.bio.net INFO-GCG info-gcg@net.bio.net INSULIN-ACTION ** insulin@net.bio.net JOURNAL-NOTES jrnlnote@net.bio.net METHODS-AND-REAGENTS methods@net.bio.net MICROBIOLOGY microbio@net.bio.net MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION mol-evol@net.bio.net MOLECULAR-MODELLING molmodel@net.bio.net MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** molreps@net.bio.net MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** molluscs@net.bio.net MYCOLOGY mycology@net.bio.net NAVBO ** navbo@net.bio.net NEUROSCIENCE neur-sci@net.bio.net N2-FIXATION n2fix@net.bio.net PARASITOLOGY parasite@net.bio.net PEPTIDES ** peptides@net.bio.net PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** photosyn@net.bio.net PLANT-BIOLOGY plantbio@net.bio.net PLANT-EDUCATION plant-ed@net.bio.net PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** plsignal@net.bio.net POPULATION-BIOLOGY pop-bio@net.bio.net PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS prenatal@net.bio.net PROTEIN-ANALYSIS proteins@net.bio.net PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY xtal-log@net.bio.net PROTISTA protista@net.bio.net PSEUDOMONADS pseudomo@net.bio.net RAPD rapd@net.bio.net RECOMBINATION recom@net.bio.net SCHISTOSOMA ** schisto@net.bio.net SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** sci-res@net.bio.net STADEN staden@net.bio.net STRUCTURAL-NMR ** str-nmr@net.bio.net SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** symbios@net.bio.net TIBS ** tibs@net.bio.net TOXICOLOGY toxicol@net.bio.net TROPICAL-BIOLOGY trop-bio@net.bio.net URODELES ** urodeles@net.bio.net VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** vect-bio@net.bio.net VIROLOGY ** virology@net.bio.net WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY womenbio@net.bio.net X-PLOR x-plor@net.bio.net YEAST yeast@net.bio.net ZBRAFISH zbrafish@net.bio.net + 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. 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