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THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET
(last revised 14-JULY-97)
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> 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 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 at
http://www.bio.net/BIOSCI/biosci.FAQ.html. 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
-------------------------
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 CCL
Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom. 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.
NEWSGROUP NAME Discussion Leader or Moderator
-------------- ------------------------------------------
ACEDB-SOFT Mike Cherry (cherry at genome.stanford.edu)
AFCR ** Jon T. Schafer (pp001101 at interramp.com)
AGEING Sydney Shall (bafa1 at central.sussex.ac.uk)
AGROFORESTRY Gerry Lawson (gjl at ite.ac.uk)
AIBS ** Rebecca Chasan (moderator at aibs.org)
AMYLOID ** David Small (david_small at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au)
ARABIDOPSIS ** Charles Gasser Lab (atmod at ucdavis.edu)
ASCB ** Vincent Shan (moderator at faseb.org)
AUDIOLOGY Jeff Sirianni (sirianni at uts.cc.utexas.edu) and
Susan Moreland (smorelan at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
AUTOMATED-SEQUENCING ** David Cain (dcain at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk) and
Robert Feakes (rwf at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk)
BIOCAN ** Neil Haave (biocan at augustana.ab.ca)
BIOFILMS Claus Sternberg (cs at im.dtu.dk)
BIOFORUM None
BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-
THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Tom Schneider (toms at ncifcrf.gov)
BIONAUTS Rob Harper (harper at convex.csc.fi)
BIONEWS ** Todd McGee (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
BIO-JOURNALS ** Julie Lawrence (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
BIO-MATRIX Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** Carol Gross (cgross at biosci.cbs.umn.edu)
BIOPHYSICS Carol Gross (cgross at biosci.cbs.umn.edu)
BIO-SOFTWARE None
BIO-SRS Thure Etzold (etzold at embl-heidelberg.de) and
Reinhard Doelz (doelz at comp.bioz.unibas.ch)
BIOTECHNIQUES ** Mary McCarthy (mmccarthy at biotechnet.com)
BIOTHERMOKINETICS John Woods (eanv20 at castle.edinburgh.ac.uk)
BIO-WWW ** Nicole Redaschi (redaschi at ebi.ac.uk)
CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Zhandong Zhou (zhandong at macc.wisc.edu)
CELEGANS William Morgan (wmorgan at acs.wooster.edu)
CELL-BIOLOGY Ola Myklebost (ola.myklebost at dnr.uio.no)
CHLAMYDOMONAS ** Elizabeth H. Harris (chlamy at acpub.duke.edu)
CHROMOSOMES Bruce Roe (broe at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu) and
Greg Lennon (greg at mendel.llnl.gov)
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Todd McGee (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
CSM ** John Nash (csm at nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca)
CYTONET Nicholas C. Carpita (carpita at btny.purdue.edu)
DEEPSEA ** Andrew Grant McArthur (mcarthur at onyx.si.edu)
DIAGNOSTICS ** Kevin O'Donnell (odonnell at sasa.gov.uk) and
Robert Burns (burns at sasa.gov.uk)
DROSOPHILA Michael Ashburner (m.ashburner at gen.cam.ac.uk)
ECOPHYSIOLOGY ** Martyn M. Caldwell (mmc at cc.usu.edu)
EMBL-DATABANK None (datalib at embl-heidelberg.de)
EMF-BIO ** Allan H. Frey (afrey at uunet.uu.net)
EMPLOYMENT ** Todd McGee (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
EMPLOYMENT-WANTED None
FASEB ** Vincent Shan (moderator at faseb.org)
FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS Paul Kitts (paulki at clontech.com)
Steve Kain (stevek at clontech.com)
FREE-RADICALS ** Javier J. Zulueta (javier.zulueta at es.nemc.org) and
Kevin Clancy PhD (clancy at eri.uchsc.edu) and
Neil Hogg PhD (nhogg at post.its.mcw.edu)
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Lee F. Kolakowski, Jr.
(kolakowski at uthscsa.edu)
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)
GENSTRUCTURE ** Graham Dellaire (dellaire at odyssee.net)
GLYCOSCI Iain Wilson (iwilson at molbiol.ox.ac.uk) and
Barry Hardy (bhardy at convex.ox.ac.uk)
GRASSES-SCIENCE Allen Wright (adwright at iastate.edu)
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Mika Salminen (msalminen at nphi.fi)
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM ** Betty Mansfield (k76 at ornl.gov)
IMMUNOLOGY Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
INFO-GCG John Cargill (ontogen at nic.cerf.net)
INSULIN-ACTION ** T. S. Pillay (tpillay at ucsd.edu)
JOURNAL-NOTES Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS None
MICROBIOLOGY Martin Latterich (Martin_Latterich at qm.salk.edu)
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
MOLECULAR-MODELLING Philippe Stas (philstas at vub.ac.be)
MOLECULAR-REPERTOIRES ** Andrew Wallace (a.wallace at qub.ac.uk)
MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS ** Elizabeth Grace Boulding (boulding at uoguelph.ca)
MYCOLOGY Tom Adams (tom at bio.tamu.edu)
Leland Ellis (leland at straylight.tamu.edu)
Greg May (gsmay at bcm.tmc.edu)
NAVBO ** Valeri Kolpakov (kolpakov at umich.edu)
Steve Schwartz (steves at u.washington.edu)
D. Gordon (David.Gordon at pobox.pds.med.umich.edu)
NEUROSCIENCE Vincent A Mazzarella (vamg6792 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
James L. Olds (olds at anatomy.org)
N2-FIXATION Eng-Leong Foo
(eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum at mica.mic.ki.se)
P450 Dr. A. Zimmerlin (Alfred.zimmerlin at fmi.ch)
PARASITOLOGY Daniel R. Brooks, Sherwin S. Desser and
Henry Hong (parasite at zoo.toronto.edu)
PEPTIDES ** Michael Breslav
(mbreslav at rarusraexs1.prius.jnj.com) and
Christopher Gross (cmgross at biosci.cbs.umn.edu)
and Terry Mulcahy (tmulcahy at medusa.unm.edu)
PHOTOSYNTHESIS ** Larry Orr (larry.orr at asu.edu)
PLANT-BIOLOGY Tony Travis (ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk)
PLANT-EDUCATION Jonathan D. Monroe (monroejd at jmu.edu) and
Susan R. Singer (ssinger at carleton.edu)
PLANT-SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION ** Bratislav Stankovic (stankovic.1 at osu.edu)
POPULATION-BIOLOGY None
PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS Aneal Chandra (chandra at cardiff.ac.uk) and
David Miller (davidm at pathology.leeds.ac.uk) and
Tim Reynolds (timreyno at burton.demon.co.uk)
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)
PSEUDOMONADS Bruce W. Ritchings (bwr at icbr.ifas.ufl.edu)
RAPD James Farmer (jlfarmer at bioag.byu.edu)
RECOMBINATION Graham Dellaire (popa0206 at po-box.mcgill.ca) and
George Szatmari (szat at ere.umontreal.ca) and
Terry Chow (MDTY at musica.mcgill.ca) and
Dana Lasko (CZDL at musica.mcgill.ca)
SCHISTOSOMA ** Christoph Grevelding
(Christoph.Grevelding at uni-duesseldorf.de)
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Julie Lawrence (biosci-help at net.bio.net) and
Todd McGee (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
STADEN Tim Littlejohn (tim at bch.umontreal.ca)
STRUCTURAL-NMR ** C. S. Raman (raman at bioc01.uthscsa.edu)
SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH ** James F. White, Jr. (jwhite at aesop.rutgers.edu)
TIBS ** Jo McEntyre (TIBS at elsevier.co.uk) and
Todd McGee (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
TOXICOLOGY Charles A. Miller (rellim at mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu)
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Matti Nummelin (mnummelin at cc.helsinki.fi)
URODELES ** Susan Duhon (duhon at ucs.indiana.edu) and
Anthony Mescher (mescher at ucs.indiana.edu)
VECTOR-BIOLOGY ** Dennis Knudson (dknudson at lamar.colostate.edu) and
Martin Ferguson (martinf at lamar.colostate.edu)
VIROLOGY ** Marnix L. Bosch (marnix at saul.u.washington.edu) and
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X-PLOR Axel T. Brunger (brunger at laplace.csb.yale.edu)
YEAST Francis Ouellette (francis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
ZBRAFISH Richard Vogt (vogt at biol.scarolina.edu) and
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Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives
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BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups
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annelida at net.bio.net Discussions of the scientific study of Phylum Annelida
bigblue at net.bio.net Discussions between researchers who use
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bioherv at net.bio.net Discussions about human endogenous retroviral elements.
maize at net.bio.net Research on maize.
mutation at net.bio.net Discussions about mutation research.
phbiotec at net.bio.net Discussions about research in pharmaceutical
biotechnology.
radoncjc at net.bio.net Radiation Oncology journal club (moderated list)
rna at net.bio.net Discussions about RNA editing, RNA splicing,
and ribozyme activities of RNA.
rust-mil at net.bio.net Research about the biotrophic foliar fungal
diseases of cereals, including rusts,
powdery mildews and downy mildews.
yac at net.bio.net Discussions about yeast artificial chromosomes.
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