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From: 93asw@williams.edu (Andrew Wright)
Subject: Neuron-silicon interface
Followup-To: bionet.neuroscience
Organization: Williams College
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:29:08 GMT

When the recent thread about interfacing neurons and silicon chips came up,
I was interested but did not think that references would come in handy for
my neuroscience seminar.  If anyone saved some references, could you send a
copy to me?

Thanks, and sorry for wasting bandwidth

Andrew

Jellybirdbigbangboom
From: YHADEISH@biomed.med.yale.edu (Yukiharu Hadeishi)
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
Subject: RE: (none)
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:35:41 GMT
Organization: Yale University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In response to your question, "how do you trace the path of an axon for over
50 cm," you might try _Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing Methods_ by Heimer, L. and
Robards, M.J. (1981).  New York:  Plenum.  If you just want general comments on
how people do tract-tracing, just read the first chapter, and perhaps also the
third.  However, if you actually want to *do* the tract-tracing *yourself*, why
then I commend you on your bravery, but I think you should talk to somebody
before you break any laws...  ;-)

Enjoy the class!

  -- yh.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yukiharu "Yuki" Hadeishi   -   Lurker at Large
Internet:  yhadeish@biomed.med.yale.edu
The Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program will have
absolutely nothing to do with any of my opinions...
From: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu (Joseph T. Devlin)
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
Subject: Modeling
Keywords: Connectionism, Neural Modeling
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:40:03 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu


>> 4) When one sets up a "mathematical" model of the operation of a 
>>    set of neurons in a particular part of the nervous system, what 
>>    does one normally take into account, and what does one assume to be
>>    irrelevant to the modeling objective?

> 4)  Currently the connectionist paradigm is the most popular for modelling
>	the functioning of the brain.  The connectionist's bible is 
>	"Parallel distributed processing" by some guys at San Diego that
>	 I can't recall right now.

  While this is true, McClelland and Rumelhart's PDP book gets alot
of attention, I would say that Christof Koch and Idan Segev's book,
_Methods in Neural Modeling_ is a much better perspective on modeling
real neurons and what information one would like to include.  I would 
recommend this book, and the Hille reference already mentioned, before
the PDP material - depends on your particular focus, though.

							- Joe

*************************************************************************
Joseph Devlin                      * email: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu
University of Southern California  *
Department of Computer Science     * "The axon doesn't think.
Los Angeles, CA 90089              *  It just ax."  George Bishop
*************************************************************************
From: spotter@sanger.bio.uci.edu (Steve Potter)
Subject: Re: Vision problem and Virtual Reality
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 22 Nov 92 05:06:09 GMT

With all due respect to the ol' professor, Dr. Dubin, dont believe anyone
who says something can't be done.  Especially when it comes to issues
of neural plasticity.  Monkeys and cats are different than humans in the
very important respect that we can follow instructions and intentionally
carry out excercises that can re-wire out visual system.  For instance
I have recently successfully trained my eyes to merge images that are
further apart than my interocular distance.  This requires the eyes to
diverge, something they never needed to do in our evolutionary history.

Also, in order to cross-fuse images without using lenses, it is necessary
to focus at a distance that is different than the point of convergence,
another behavior that Mother Nature never intended us to do.  This
can be learned by most people with practice, even full-grown ADULTS
(but maybe not cats and monkeys).  

"Never say never"  Steve Potter
spotter@darwin.bio.uci.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 21:06:09 CST
From: <U29242@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
Subject:    Pa1 of Helisoma Trivolvis

Could anyone lend me some suggestion on current work or literature available on
 the Parietal neuron 1 of Helisoma.  What information given to me was short.  I
 have looked into several resources with no luck.  Only then did I find out tha
t there is little available on this neuron.  If you, or someone of your acquain
tance is working on this specific neuron I would greatly appreciate some sugges
tions.  Specifically, an literature on the electrophysiological characteristics
 of Pa1 would be an immense help.
                                 Thanking in Advance-
                                 Ray Hulse U29242@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
From: louk@research.teleride.on.ca (Lou Kates)
Subject: brain controlling computer
Organization: Teleride Sage Ltd., Waterloo, Ont.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:27:33 GMT

Does anyone have any good ideas for the technologies that would allow a
brain to control a computer?   Its for a science fiction plot but it would
be nice if it were at least partially based on some real ideas that are
currently leading edge.

Lou Kates, louk@research.teleride.on.ca
From: mestelle@SUNFLOWER.BIO.INDIANA.EDU ("Mark Estelle")
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: query
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:22:14 GMT
Distribution: bionet

Does anyone have info on the orientation of a contig anchored by cosmid 6220
to chromosome 3. We are interested in an auxin-resistance gene called axr2 
which lies in this region. Thanks, Mark Estelle
From: VARNUM@MOLBIO.UOREGON.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: RFLP order
Date: 17 Nov 92 02:38:41 GMT
Distribution: bionet

As a follow-up on Greg Roman's result that the Meyerowitz RFLP 562 is 
linked to ASA1, the Meeks-Wagner laboratory ordered other RFLPs within this 
region in the following way (starting from the north and heading south of 
chromosome 5):  447--217--3837--562--pCIT1243.  
Susan Varnum
Institute of Molecular Biology
Universtity of Oregon
Eugene, OR
From: POOL@SPRV.compuserve.com
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: Spell Checker
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:50:02 GMT
Distribution: bionet

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From: mb1rgw@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (R Walters)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: in planta transformation
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:21:07 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Original-To: arab-gen@uk.ac.daresbury
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

Hello netland!
We are interested in trying out the _in planta_ transformation which has been
posted by Chris Somerville's lab.  Unfortunately, having less than zero 
knowledge of plant anatomy, we would appreciate some assistance:

"When the plants start to bolt (flowering shoot <2cm), we cut the flowering
shoot and all visible axillary buds with a forceps, or a razor blade."

(1) By "cut", does it mean cut _off_, or just make a nick in the side?

(2) What is an axillary bud?

Thanks for any help (and additional tips on using the method?).

Robin Walters.
Robert Hill Institute, University of Sheffield, UK.
From: kristoff@net.bio.net (David Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: Re: Questionaire: How to Get Access to Electronic DataStuff
Date: 21 Nov 92 05:46:03 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Biology

dbrancat@NSF.GOV writes:


>          I am putting together a 'recipe' type document that answers
>          the most often asked questions about electronic access:
>          internet, FTP, telnet, gopher, STIS, modem-transfer, email,
>          etc.

Don,

	I was contacted recently by Robert Coelen
(robert@arbo.microbiol.uwa.edu.au) in Australia who is putting
together a similar document from a biologist's perspective which he is
going to make available soon for FTP.  You might want to contact him
as there is an awful lot of duplication of effort in this area.  There
is also the general Zen and the Art of the Internet guide as described
below.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				BIOSCI/bionet Manager

				kristoff@net.bio.net

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From: smith-una@yale.edu (Una Smith)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: Re: Questionaire:  How to Get Access to Electronic DataStuff
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:03:37 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

Would the person (Tom) who sent me the Word document about Internet
resources please send me your last name?  I discarded the headers
from your mail and your name does not appear in the document.  Thanks!
-- 

      Una Smith      Biology Department       smith-una@yale.edu
                     Yale University
                     New Haven, CT  06511
From: K445711@CZHRZU1A.EARN (Alan Slusarenko)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.arabidopsis
Subject: Cu,Zn SOD
Date: 19 Nov 92 08:05:10 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Original-To: Arabidopsis network <arab-gen@UK.AC.DARESBURY>

Dear Networkers,  we've had several requests for the cDNA clone of the Arabidop
sis cytosolic Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (PMB 18:123-125, 1992).  To ease distr
ibution we have deposited the clone with the Ohio Stock Centre.  Although I thi
nk its not yet in the catalogue, it is ready for distribution and requests shou
ld be directed to ABRC at OSU. Regards, Alan Slusarenko
From: huc@avi-forets.avignon.inra.fr (Roland Huc)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
Subject: subscribe
Date: 23 Nov 92 08:18:10 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Original-To: trop-bio@uk.ac.daresbury
Pp-Warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line
Original-Received: by avi-forets.avignon.inra.fr,
                   Mon, 23 Nov 92 09: 18:10 +0100

I would like to join the BIOSCI Newsgroup : TROPICAL-BIOLOGY
my subcription name is : Roland HUC
From: abolyana@weber.ucsd.edu (Alex Bolyanatz)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
Subject: Pandanus Question
Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:08:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

I need a little information; I hope this is the proper place to ask
this question:
Is pandanus a hard wood?  Could it be used, for example, to make
spears?  I know that the leaves are what normally get used, but what
of the wood?

Please respond by e-mail, if you know and can help.  Thanks.

--Alex Bolyanatz (abolyana@weber.ucsd.edu)
From: smith-una@yale.edu (Una Smith)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
Subject: South American birds listserv
Summary: New service from Ecuador and Peru
Keywords: South America neotropical birds listserv Ecuador Peru
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:43:07 GMT
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu


AVIFAUNA@RCP.PE is a special interest list being created by the
International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) and the Red
Cientifica Peruana as a forum for researchers,
conservationists and others interested in neotropical birds. All
persons interested in joining this forum may send us a message
(phillips@cipa.ec) requesting subscription, automatic
subscription through a listserver is not available yet. Further
information will be posted to these and other lists

Roberto Phillips
ICBP-Pan American Regional Office
Casilla 17-17-717
Quito, Ecuador
tel/fax: 593 (2) 244-734
email:  phillips@cipa.ec   or     cdp!ecuanex.ec!cipa!phillips
.
-- 

      Una Smith      Biology Department       smith-una@yale.edu
                     Yale University
                     New Haven, CT  06511
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
From: weed@venus.ycc.yale.edu
Subject: information on conservation-oriented politics please
Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC)
Date: 15 Nov 92 11:18:59 EDT

I am a senior undergraduate, working on my senior essay in the Department of
Political Science, here at Yale.  The essay is focused on conservation of
biological diversity, and more specifically, on diversity conservation in the
  rain forests of South and Central America.  I have a good deal of information
on the biological, economic, and international political issues surrounding the
diversity conservation problem.  How   r, I have seen very little in the
literature on national, regional, or community-level organizations concerned
with either the pro-consumption, or pro-protection sides of the issue.  I am
told that very little is available in English on the subject, and am, therfore,
wondering if any researchers with recent experience in South or Central America
would be willing to detail their experiences in working with whatever
organizations may be extent in the region.  I have focused the essay toward the
international choices available t groups interested in conservation of
biodiversity, but have *no* information (which I can cite), to support the
supposition that interest groups on the national, regional, or local levels
exist in these countries.  Any first-hand   anecdotal evidence would probably
be sufficient to support the point that non-external forces are working to
conserve/destroy local rainforest diversity.
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance that can be provided on this matter.
Matthew Weed
Yale/Silliman 93.
From: smith-una@yale.edu (Una Smith)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
Subject: Re: information on conservation-oriented politics please
Date: 18 Nov 1992 11:13:14 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu
Summary: More details about Peru

Hanna Tuomisto <hantuo@utu.fi> writes:

>Matthew Weed asked about conservation-minded organizations in Latin
>America.

Hanna has given a better summary of governmental organizations in Peru
than I could have done, with the exception of mentioning a powerful
student organization, Associacion para la Preservacion de la Selva Sur,
which is based in Cuzco.  One of the founding members, David Ricalde,
who has just finished an MS degree at Duke University's School of the
Environment.  A long-time member of the Associacion is in the School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.  His name is Javier Dominquez,
and his e-mail address is domjavl@yalevm.cis.yale.edu.  He can tell you
about the student organization, and tell you how to contact David Ricalde.
Monica Romo, a Peruvian graduate student now studying in St. Louis, can
tell you about student conservation organizations in Lima.  Her e-mail
address is s926221@umslvma.umsl.edu.

In Panama, there is a non-profit organization called ANCON, for which I 
have very little information.  You might want to contact the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to ask about their conservation efforts
in Panama, and for information about ANCON, which as close ties to STRI.
The person to contact at STRI is

	Georgina de Alba
	Office of Education and Conservation
	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
	APO Miami 34002-0011	(actually, this number has changed...)

Note:  the above mail address works only from the US, via the armed
forces mail service.  Other international mail should be sent to 

	Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales
	Apartado Postal 2072
	Balboa, Republica de Panama

Georgina can be reached by telephone at 507-62-3133 or 3224 and by fax
at 507-62-6084 (in the US, preface all international numbers with 011).

-- 

      Una Smith      Biology Department       smith-una@yale.edu
                     Yale University
                     New Haven, CT  06511
From: lns@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.tropical
Subject: amber snails, Succinea sp., diet
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:54:40 GMT

Information regarding amber snails, Succinea sp., requested. What is
the diet of this critter?  Thanks.
From: volpe@crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational
Subject: Online ECG data.
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:46:46 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development
Originator: biocomp@lerkim.umiacs.umd.edu


Hi-
  I'm looking for on-line databases of electrocardiogram (ECG) data. I
heard that there is one at MIT, but I don't know the FPT address. Any
help would be appreciated.

thanks,
Chris

-- 
==================
Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com
From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational
Subject: Re: Wanted: Contig software
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:26:54 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington
Originator: biocomp@lerkim.umiacs.umd.edu


I recommand CAP written by Xiaoqiu Huang.  You can ftp it
from cs.mtu.edu or from ftp.bio.indiana.edu, as /molbio/align/cap.*
GDE uses this program, and SeqApp will as soon as I can get it
to recompile on Macs.

   CONTIG ASSEMBLY PROGRAM (CAP)

   copyright (c) 1992	Xiaoqiu Huang
   The distribution of the program is granted provided no charge
   is made and the copyright notice is included.

   Proper attribution of the author as the source of the software
   would be appreciated:
   "A Contig Assembly Program Based on Sensitive Detection of
   Fragment Overlaps" (Genomics, 1992, in press)
	Xiaoqiu Huang
	Department of Computer Science
	Michigan Technological University
	Houghton, MI 49931
        E-mail: huang@cs.mtu.edu

   The CAP program uses a dynamic programming algorithm to compute
   the maximal-scoring overlapping alignment between two fragments.
   Fragments in random orientations are assembled into contigs by a
   greedy approach in order of the overlap scores. CAP is efficient
   in computer memory: a large number of arbitrarily long fragments
   can be assembled. The time requirement is acceptable; for example,
   CAP took 4 hours to assemble 1015 fragments of a total of 252 kb
   nucleotides on a Sun SPARCstation SLC. The program is written in C
   and runs on Sun workstations.

-- 
Don Gilbert                                     gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
From: r.l.kingston@massey.ac.nz (Richard Kingston)
Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational
Subject: Re:QCPE address
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:32:04 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Originator: biocomp@lerkim.umiacs.umd.edu





Lee:

Richard Counts coordinates the QCPE

The E-mail address you require is

  COUNTSR@ucs.indiana.edu

Hope this helps

Richard Kingston
(R.L.Kingston@massey.ac.nz) 
Protein Crystallography Research
Massey University
Palmerston North
New Zealand
From: raja@mayo.edu (Raja Muthupillai, BIR Grad Student, Dr. Robb)
Subject: Request for information reg software etc
Reply-To: raja@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 23:34:29 GMT


Hi,

I am new to the newsgroups in the field of molecular biology.
I am very much interested in the resources availble in the network,
for researchers in molecular biology.  I'd greatly appreciate any
relevant information.

If anyone wants to send it directly, please do so.
My email address raja@mayo.edu

Thanks,
Raja.
From: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Subject: Live Bgal detection
Reply-To: rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:11:36 GMT


Hey all! I wonder if anyone can recommend a way of detecting 
B-galactosidase activity in living eukaryotic tissue or cells
without having to fix them? Well, if you can't think of one, how
about a different reporter gene that can be detected in live
tissue? For that matter, is there a gene that can be selected
*against* in non-dividing cells, that is, cells carrying the
gene can be actively killed?

thanks for the help!

e-mail if you'd like, and i'll summarize

-rich
rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
"Working with Dicty? Have you tried the Franke database yet?"
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
From: wilddrb@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Wildin)
Subject: Re: Result from "Primer" programme
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:27:20 GMT

biosmd@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Sean Davidson) writes:


>I have been using the "Primer" programme on the published sequence of a mouse
>gene (HSP70.1) and it reports homology in the 3' non-transcribed region, with
>the mouse repetitve element B2.
>My question is, could this explain why my attempts at using a probe which
>is derived from the 3' region of this gene, has failed so far in Southern
>blots - all I get is hybridization to apparently all DNA, even when washed
>at 65 degrees in 0.1xSSC.
>Does anyone know HOW homolgous the sequence has to be before Primer reports
>it ?

>Any comments appreciated,
>Sean
Than is almost certainly your problem.  Theoretically, if you could wash 
with perfect stringency, the homology would not be detected.  The problem is 
that there are so many copies of B1 and B2 elements in the genome, that
even imperfect hybridization to a few results in a black blot.

Sorry, I have no experience with primer.

 :w

D
A


Sorry, I have no experience with Primer.
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Subject: Re: Live Bgal detection
Reply-To: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:45:20 GMT

In article <Bxyz73.Bnt@acsu.buffalo.edu> camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.041136.18053@news.columbia.edu>, rss19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Richard S Sucgang) writes...
>> 
>>about a different reporter gene that can be detected in live
[most of original post deleted]

>Please clarify--what kind of eukaryotic cells are you using?

To satisfy the curious: I work with Dictyostelium,
a cellular slime mold. I plan to use the reporter
construct to report gene activity during the
development. Hopefully, in situ.

-rich
rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu