From: danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Dan Jacobson)
Subject: Re: Looking for PC programs
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Distribution: bionet
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:03:06 GMT

In article <9301221954.AA10815@phage.cshl.org> theiss@CSHL.ORG (Bobbie Peters in Computer Center - CSHL) writes:
>
>With Gopher I have found it easy to find MAC programs, both Molbio and 
>otherwise. Can anyone point me to a gopherhole with PC programs? 
>Especially molecular biology programs. 
>
>Thanks
>Bobbie Peters
>User Liaison
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There are lots of general use PC programs on the net and quite a few
for biology.  For help finding and retrieving such software point your
gopher at merlot.welch.jhu.edu and go to the  

-->  14. Search and Retrieve Software/ 

directory.  What follows is a description of the contents of this directory 
and its subdirectories found in the "About These Searches" file.

Happy hunting,

Dan Jacobson

danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu


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The searches and links contained in these directories
will allow you to search for and retrieve software from
ftp archives all over the world - a kind of "one-stop-
shopping" for software and databases.

1.  About These Searches.
2.  Search and Retrieve Software for All Computers/
3.  Search and Retrieve Macintosh Software/
4.  Search and Retrieve DOS Software/
5.  Search and Retrieve GNU Software/
6.  Search and Retrieve Software for Biology/
                                                        

For general PC programs choose - 

 4.  Search and Retrieve DOS Software/

 -->  1.  DOS programs - one line descriptions (Simtel) <?>
      2.  Oakland SIMTEL mirror /
      3.  PC (DOS) readmes <?>
      4.  Search FTP sites (Archie)/

          1.  DOS programs - one line descriptions (Simtel) <?>

                   Will search a database of one-line descriptions of the
                   files in the SIMTEL archives and its mirror sites.Once you
                   have located a program(s) with this search you
                   may want to retrieve it by using the following directory
:
                   2.  Oakland SIMTEL mirror /.

         3.  PC (DOS) readmes <?>

                   Will search the readme files residing in
                   the ftp sites all over the world.  Once you
                   have located a program(s) with this search you
                   may want to retrieve it by using the

                   5.  Search FTP sites (Archie)/  directory.


To search for PC software for biology go to -  

6.  Search and Retrieve Software for Biology/

      1.  FTP Sites For Biology/
      2.  Search for Software at EMBL (Mac, Dos, Unix, Vax)/
      3.  Search for Software at Indiana - IUBio (Mac, Dos, Unix, Vax)/

In directories 2 and 3 you will find searches of descriptions of software
archived at IUBio and EMBL - the EMBL searches are done locally while the
IUbio search is done at Indiana, in any event both support booleans (and, or,
not), wildcards (*), and phrase searches ("  "). Once you have found the 
programs you are interested in there are links from those directories right 
into the archives.

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