HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: BNFNET-L transfer to BIOSCI.
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:46:12 GMT
Distribution: bionet


We have received a proposal to assume adminstrative responsibility for
an existing mailing list called BNFNET-L.  The current list maintainer
will retain his position as discussion leader of BNFNET-L.

Proposed USENET name: bionet.biology.n2-fixation
E-mail address: BNFNET-L

Discussion will now be open through 7 February on
BIOFORUM/bionet.general (*not* on BIONEWS/bionet.announce).

Please do not post one-line messages saying only "I am in favor of
such a newsgroup".  We will collect votes later.  The discussion
period is an opportunity for anyone to bring up reservations about the
proposed charter and to propose modifications prior to the vote.  The
discussion leader may submit a revised proposal in light of the
discussion, and the new charter would be included in the call for votes
which will go out on 8 February.

Please be aware that only one vote is counted per e-mail address, so
it is necessary to have your own account in order to vote.  Multiple
votes from the same address are not accepted.  If you are interested
in the following newsgroup, but do not have an e-mail address of your
own, please obtain one from your computer center before the call for
votes is issued.

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Proposal to establish BNFNET-L/bionet.biology.n2-fixation

Discussion leader:  Eng-leong Foo
                    Director, Unesco Microbial Resources Center
                    Karolinska Institute, 10401 Stockholm, Sweden
                    Phone: 46-8-7287145    Fax: 46-8-331547
                    email: eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum@mica.mic.ki.se

BNFNET-L aims
(a) to provide a forum for the exchange of information and
    discussions on scientific research, activities and
    experiences on biological nitrogen fixation.
(b) to serve as a bulletin board for announcements of forthcoming
    conferences, reviews of publications, profiles of
    organizations, etc.
(c) to act as the general list for the Biological Nitrogen
    Fixation Electronic Network.

Biological Nitrogen Fixation Electronic Network (BNFNET) was
established in 1990 by UNESCO's MIRCEN (Microbial Resources
Center) Network for Environmental, Applied Microbiological and
Biotechnological Research. BNFNET aims to (i) foster better
communication and cooperation among MIRCENs and between MIRCENs
and other organizations, (ii) encourage and help laboratories and
individuals to use e-mail for communications in BNF (iii) help
researchers to identify resources of culture collections.
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From: fgarbrec@POST.ITS.MCW.EDU (Frederick Garbrecht)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: E. Coli and sickness
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:53:29 GMT
Distribution: bionet

This has more to do with the virulence of the strain of E. Coli.  The are
many strains, and some have the ability to secrete enterotoxins into the
gut of the affected individual, thus resulting in a gastroenteritis.

F Garbrecht
Medical College of Wisconsin
fgarbrec@post.its.mcw.edu



On 28 Jan 1993 apland@mala.bc.ca wrote:

> Date: 28 Jan 93 04:39:29 GMT
> From:apland@mala.bc.ca
> To: bioforum@net.bio.net
> Subject: E. Coli and sickness
> 
> Hi. I'm a grade 12 biology student.  I am wondering about the effects of E. 
> Coli bacteria injested through uncooked meat. Recently a young child died and 
> tens of others have became ill in Washington State after eating uncooked 
> hamburgers.  The news attributed the illness to E. Coli, but my biology text 
> says that E.Coli is a harmless bacteria found in the colon.  Does this have 
> something to do with the high pH in the colon as apposed to the low pH in the 
> stomach? 
> 
> Thanks, Shannon
>
From: anadeem@ampere.alt.graphics.pixutils (Ahmed Nadeem)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: MRI and CT-SCAN Images For Dogs?
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:12:21 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: /home/ampere1/anadeem/.organization

Netters,
      I am currently working on a research project that involves construction 
of realistic, solid or geometric models for dogs.
      Does anyone know where I can get serial section images( MRI, CT-SCAN, 
etc ) for dogs?
                                                       Thanks,
                                                              Ahmed Nadeem

Newsgroups: bionet.general
From: SSTAFFANS@FINABO.ABO.FI (GORK)
Subject: REQ: EEC & the environment
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:46:31 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24


  My apoligies if this is being posted to the wrong
  newsgroup.

  I would like to have information about the actions that
  different countries have taken to match the 
  regulations and demands in the EEC-treaty.
  
  If someone has any information, would you please e-mail it
  to me at :

     sstaffans@finabo.abo.fi

  Also, if anyone know of any FTP-site where such
  information would be available, please notify me.

  Thanks in advance!

--
Simon
Xref: sparky bionet.general:2140 sci.chem:5948 sci.edu:1466 sci.geo.geology:2795 sci.physics:23364
From: howard@micromed.com (howard huang)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: bioremediation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:14:27 PST
Organization: Micro-Medic BBS - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

Hi!

I am currently working on a science project dealing with bioremediation 
(specifically, the usefulness of bacteria in the degradation of oil).

I was hoping that someone could help me either get in contact with others 
that are doing research in bioremediation or give me some suggestions on how 
to get in contact with industry (like Exxon) and government agencies (like 
the EPA), since I don't have many "connections myself."

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.


Howard

(If it isn't too much trouble, please e-mail me at howard@Garg.Campell.CA.US, 
or a plain old Reply is ok, too.)

-- 
howard@micromed.com (howard huang)
From: RAW113@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Need info on Chrom2
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:52:27 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


 Actually, I am in need of information on deletion of 2q (36-37).  I am lookin
g for anyone with a child with this or any deletion of the 2q or anyplace  wher
e I may find information.  If you have any information or know of someone I may
 contact  please reply.  Thanks  RAW113@psuvm.psu.edu
From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Bionet vs BIOSCI
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:23:55 GMT
Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
Organization: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology
In-reply-to: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson)

In article <CMM.0.90.2.727472931.kristoff@net.bio.net>, kristoff@NET (Dave Kristofferson) writes:
>> David changed most instances of the word "Bionet" in my FAQ to "BIOSCI".
>> He and I have argued publicly over whether these are equivalent.

>This change was made simply because the name of the system *is* BIOSCI

Why is that?  Is BIOSCI substantially more than network distribution of
biological research requests and information?  Your(?) paper in the Los
Alamos COMPUTERS AND DNA collection mostly referred to bionet.

If it's mostly mailing lists now gatewayed via network news, it makes
sense to call it bionet, in analogy with usenet, decnet, happynet, etc.
"BIOSCI" could be anything, and sounds like something pretentious for
the sake of an unaware NSF committee.

I'm not trying to revise any old arguments, I just wonder if I hate the
name BIOSCI for a reason or not.
-- 
-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
From: L.BERTSCHINGER@CGNET.COM ("L. Bertschinger, CIMMYT, Mexico")
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Image analysis
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:31:24 GMT
Distribution: bionet


I am posting this message for a friend at CIMMYT. Please reply to
my Internet address. Thanks in advance
__________________
Lukas Bertschinger, Virologist
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Apdo Postal 6-641, 06600 Mexico, D. F. , Mexico
Tel. (595) 42100, Fax (595) 41069
E-mail:L.bertschinger@cgnet.com

----- Begin message from LBROERS  22-Jan-93

Dear collegue,

In CIMMYT's wheat pathology group, several people are interested in Video Image 
Analysis (VIA). The applications that we have in mind are disease severity 
assessment and object countings and size measurements of microscope images. 
Since we do not have any equipment nor experience we would like to receive the 
opinion of (experienced) VIA-users (not necessarily with the same applications).
First the hardware. What kind of digitizer card could you recommend. We are 
doubting between 8-bit and 24-bit frame grabbers and do not have a special 
brand in mind. Any recommendation?
The video camera is the next part. We have seen several options in different 
price classes. What are the differences and what should we keep in mind when 
comparing different camera's?
The computer we want to use is a 486 IBM compatible with 4mB RAM, 200mB Hard 
disk, a 1mB videocard, a HRVGA color monitor and a windows accelerator. We 
probably would need a second monitor for image display. Again, many monitors 
with different prices exist. What would you recomend?
Finally, we come to the software. OPTIMUS from Bioscan ($ 4000,00) and JAVA 
from Jandel ($1500) are two commercial packages I know of. Does anybody have 
experience with one of them. Do you know of any other available software?
We would very much appreciate if someone could help us to solve the mentioned 
problems.

				Regards,

				Leon Broers
				CIMMYT, Wheat Program
				Mexico
				


----- End forwarded message
Xref: sparky bionet.general:2126 comp.ai.genetic:143 comp.databases:9277 sci.med:24252
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 11:25:08 EST
From: <IO80271@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: bionet.general,comp.ai.genetic,comp.databases,sci.med
Subject: Re: Chromosome databases?

I am looking for real digitized images of human/mouse chromosomes. I know
that some databases exist, but I do not know where to get hold of them. The
names of these databases are the Copenhagen, Philadelphia, and Edinburgh
databases of g-banded human chromosomes. If any one has information to the
location of these, or any other databases, please contact me by phone or
email. I am in desparateneed of a database to finish my thesis. Please Help!
Thank you

Walter Sweeney
wsweeney@watson.eece.maine.edu
(207) 581-2247
From: OGRADY@JHUVMS.HCF.JHU.EDU ("Richard O'Grady, Science Editor, The Johns Hopkins University Press, ph:
 410/516-6919")
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Re: Old Journals
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:29:34 GMT
Distribution: bionet


Scientific *BOOKS* (not journals) of all levels can be sent to:

The International Book Bank, Inc.
608-L Folcroft St.
Baltimore, MD 21224
ph 410/633-2929

attn: Suzette Ungvarsky, Manager of Operations

The IBB is a non-profit book-distribution service, funded by, among others,
AID and USIA.  All donors have to do is send their books to IBB by 4th-class
mail.  IBB catalogs what it receives, maintains a database of available
titles that it shares with any interested party around the world, and then
pays to ship the books out.  It ships millions--literally--of books around
the world each year.  Here at Hopkins, we've used IBB a number of times
with great success.  They have a nice info packet about their services.

-Richard O'Grady
 Science Editor
 Johns Hopkins University Press
From: rodrigol@biotek25.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Looking for LYSIS
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:35:55 GMT
Organization: The Norwegian EMBnet node




Can anyone help me trying to find the LYSIS database of

 Dr. Borivoj Keil
 Institut Pasteur
 28 rue du Docteur Roux
 Paris, Cedex 15 75724
 FRANCE

We have been trying to contact the author but to no avail.
Is the database available via anonymous ftp somewhere ?

Thanks!

Rodrigo:-)

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From: dfitts@carson.u.washington.edu (Douglas Fitts)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: BP equipment needed
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:51:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

Can anyone help me locate a source for inexpensive *new* blood
pressure measuring equipment?

I have been having trouble locating simple equipment for measuring
direct arterial blood pressure in rats.  My budget period ends soon,
and I need to spend this fast.  

The commercial products I have found are Mega packages with fancier
computer controls than I need, and these cost far more than my
roughly $7000 can allow (e.g., Harvard Instruments, BrainWave Systems, 
etc.).  Stoelting has a fairly inexpensive apparatus, but it only 
has 2 channels.  I want *new* equipment, because I am already
disgusted with the quirks of old stuff.

I need to measure MAP, systolic, diastolic, and heart rate in freely
moving rodents.  Thus, no indirect systems.  I need to measure 3 or
4 at a time.  I'll use Cobe disposable transducers and cables connected
to signal conditioners in a frame of some kind.  I have an original
IBM 6-MHz AT with EGA that I can dedicate both as a display
device and as data storage.  I don't really need a full-blown computer-
driven interface for the equipment, or even a sophisticated graphical
display of the data.  It would be sufficient to have the data come in 
through an AD board and stored in binary files.  A small library of 
routines (with source code) to manipulate the files would be nice, 
but I can write my own front end as long as the formats of the data 
stream and binary files are known.

-- 
Doug Fitts
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
dfitts@u.washington.edu
From: jm68@quads.uchicago.edu (James R. Mensch Jr.)
Newsgroups: bionet.general,bionet.molbio.meths-reagents
Subject: Rat chondrosarcoma library?
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:46:23 GMT
Reply-To: jm68@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Netpeople,  Does anyone have a non-commercial rat chondrosarcoma cDNA library
in an expression vector such as lambda gt11 (or related phage)?  Would you be
willing to share a bit with us (N.B. Schwartz lab at U. of Chicago) ?
Please respond by e-mail only to: j-mensch@quads.uchicago.edu
Thanks, Jim M.
-- 
===============================================================================
Jim Mensch : j-mensch@uchicago.edu
             menche@biovax.uchicago.edu
===============================================================================
From: oivind@pons.uio.no
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: temperatur gradient in rat brain
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:16:33 GMT
Organization: Universitetet i Oslo

Hi there!
I am a grad student at the University of Oslo and I am working on synaptic
mechanisms of learning and memory.
 Does anybody know about publications/results about temperature gradients in
rat brain in the awake and/or anesthetized state? Any pointers would be 
appreciated!

Iacob Mathiesen
From: Howard Huang <howard@Garg.Campbell.CA.US>
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: Bioremediation
Keywords: ?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 16:47:50 PST
Distribution: bionet.general, sci.bio, sci.bio.technology
Organization: The Land of Garg

Hi!

I am currently working on a science project dealing with bioremediation 
(specifically, the usefulness of bacteria in the degradation of oil).

I was hoping that someone could help me either get in contact with others 
that are doing research in bioremediation or give me some suggestions on how 
to get in contact with industry (like Exxon) and government agencies (like 
the EPA), since I don't have many "connections myself."

ANY help would be greatly appreciated.


Howard

(If it isn't too much trouble, please e-mail me at howard@Garg.Campell.CA.US, 
or a plain old Reply is ok, too.)


-- 
howard@Garg.Campbell.CA.US (Howard Huang)
The Land of Garg BBS -- +1 408 378-5108
Newsgroups: bionet.general
From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
Subject: FDA and EC Regulatory Documents On-Line?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7841AD4A8010855@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 21 Jan 93 09:18:12 GMT
Organization: No Affiliation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:19:22 GMT

I am trying to find on-line copies of various FDA and (especially) 
European Community CPMP regulatory documents and guidelines. Does anybody 
know if these are on-line, and if so, how to get to them?

TIA

 ===> James Petts <===

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Newsgroups: bionet.general
From: lafore@lib102.its.rpi.edu (Eileen P. Laforce)
Subject: Acid Rain Info Wanted
Reply-To: lafore@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:11:39 GMT

Keywords: 


I am interested in the effects of acid rain on human health but can't seem to 
find much information.  Could anybody give me any suggestions, hints, ideas, etc.
Please e-mail me at

    lafore@rpi.edu.

Thanks in advance for any help I receive.

    Eileen LaForce
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Troy, N.Y.
    lafore@rpi.edu
From: apland@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: E. Coli and sickness
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:39:29 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

Hi. I'm a grade 12 biology student.  I am wondering about the effects of E. 
Coli bacteria injested through uncooked meat. Recently a young child died and 
tens of others have became ill in Washington State after eating uncooked 
hamburgers.  The news attributed the illness to E. Coli, but my biology text 
says that E.Coli is a harmless bacteria found in the colon.  Does this have 
something to do with the high pH in the colon as apposed to the low pH in the 
stomach? 

Thanks, Shannon
From: hshida@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Hisatoshi Shida)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: omega peptide of lacz
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:56:41 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto univ.


Hello netters -

We are now studying the mechanism of alpha complementation of 
B-galactosidase. Although we could find the nucleotide sequence 
encoding alpha petide region, we could not know that for omega peptide. 
I would be grateful if you kindly inform me the sequence for the omega 
peptide or the related reference.

                              Sicerely yours

        			Hisatoshi Shida
				
				Institute for Virus Research
				Kyoto University
				Japan

				hshida@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp

				
Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography
From: dikay@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Kay Diederichs)
Subject: Re: graphics program 'o'
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Distribution: world   
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:33:22 GMT

ez005078@MIZAR.UCDAVIS.EDU writes:

>Are there any persons using the program 'o' on a SGI machine? I have 
>some querries on the makefile - failure to compile. The version I'm
>using was written for an EVS machine running a bsd4.3 Unix system. Seems
>that I need to determine equivalent libraries, files, paths etc. If some-
>one has already solved this problem & would like to share the info pl.
>contact me, thanks.
>            Joe Maxwell

I tried personal e-mail but it bounced. Here is the reply I tried to send:
Dear Joe,
we are using o5.7 on our 4d/210vgx under irix 4.0.5.
We do not have source code for o, only for some supplementary programs
like 'mappage'  and others in /usr/people/o/export_source. The executable
of the main o program was in /usr/people/o/bin/4d_ono_5.7  .  
If you want to run 'make' in /usr/people/o/export_source, you could
change 'makefile' the following way: this is the result of
'diff makefile makefile_orig' -
7,10c7,10
< FCOMP = f77
< FLINK = f77
< LIBS  = /dev/disk2/ccp4/lib/libccp4.a
< BIN   = /usr/people/o/bin/
---
> FCOMP = f77 -systype bsd43
> FLINK = f77 -systype bsd43
> LIBS  = /nfs/castor/local/ccp4/LIB/ccplibs.a
> BIN   = /usr/people/alwyn/a/bin/
As you see, this is the most straightforward change. I had to ftp the CCP4
package first, however. You can probably get around this, if you use a
local version of mappage (we do). Hope this helps - Kay
-- 
Kay Diederichs                      email: dikay@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de 
Universitaet Freiburg, Institut fuer Biophysik, Albertstr. 23 
D-7800 Freiburg, Germany   Tel. +49/(0)761/2032551 FAX +49/(0)761/2032555
From: pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk (James Petts)
Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography
Subject: Re: Which system for 3D graphics (FRODO/CHAIN/O)
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:58:14 GMT
Organization: No Affiliation
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X-Xxdate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:57:56 GMT
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In article <1993Jan26.120945.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> ,
hudel@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu writes:
>I am looking for comments on "which way to go" for 3d graphics.  We have
the
>option of buying:

I wont give answers to your specific questions at the end, but all the 
macromolecular xtallographers I know tend to prefer E&S for the display 
quality.

 ===> James Petts <===

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From: hudel@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: bionet.xtallography
Subject: Which system for 3D graphics (FRODO/CHAIN/O)
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:09:45 GMT
Organization: SSRL, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu


I am looking for comments on "which way to go" for 3d graphics.  We have the
option of buying:
		(1) an ESV 10 (moderate educ. discount)
		(2) an SGI Elan (good educ. discount)
		(3) a DEC Alpha (excellent educ. discount)

We will be using mostly FRODO/CHAIN (density fitting) with an occasional
"O"-session (modelling).  We would like to have full-screen stereo.

Now since there are working versions of FRODO, CHAIN and O for the ESV
I would be inclined to get an ESV, unfortunately the E&S quote I got makes
the ESV twice as expensive as the SGI or the DEC Alpha.

Now my questions are:
		(1) How do SGI FRODO/O compare with their ESV counterparts?
		(2) Do you know of anyone porting FRODO/O to the DEC Alpha?
		(3) Is anyone out there using "O" on a DECstation 5000?
		(4) Are there any other graphics systems we should check out?

I'll post a summary if there are enough responses.  Thanks, Hudel