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From: mdm@bnr.ca (Diane MacMartin)
Subject: Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI January Meeting
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:34:07 GMT

Everyone is welcome ...

                     Ottawa ACM/SIGCHI January Meeting
                     ==================================

                  Date:       Wednesday, January 13, 1993

                  Time:       19:00 

                  Place:      SystemHouse
                              50 O'Connor St., Ottawa
                              (Between Albert and Queen.  
                              Free parking in lots nearby.)
                              Report to security desk.

                  Speaker:    George Hoyem
                              VP Sales, Visix
                              Reston, Virginia, USA

                  Topic:      GALAXY Application Environment
                              Presentation and Live Demonstration

            ***  RSVP for security requirements by January 12th,  ***
            ***       Vanda McLelland 236-6604 x374               ***


                              About the Talk
                              --------------

      The GALAXY Application Environment is a complete multiplatform
application environment designed specifically for constructing
large-scale commercial applications.  The GALAXY Application Programming
Interface (API) supports both a kernel-based architecture and in the
near future a fully distributed client-server model.  GALAXY comes with
powerful runtime components that provide network-independent services
such as  global hypertext help and inter-application communication.

      GALAXY is a one-for-one replacement for the MacIntosh Toolbox, 
Windows SDK, Motif Toolkit, and OPEN LOOK Toolkits.  GALAXY adds 
significant value above and beyond these environments so that
application developers can channel all of their effort into building
products.  They do not have to devote additional resources to enhancing
or fixing enabling  technologies. Nor are they forced to devote amounts
of effort and investment on  portability. GALAXY applications can be run
across multiple platforms with no code  changes.


For further information contact:
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Treasurer:            Scott McEwen    (613)763-2552       mcewen@bnr.ca

Program Director:     Vanda McLelland (613)236-6604 x374  (163)232-5182  

Membership Director:  David Kelly     (613)560-6001 x1879 
                                      71102.534@CompuServ.com              

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                      Ron Pinder      (613)763-8551       pinder@bnr.ca

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                      Randall Senske  (613)591-4758       
                                      senske@kaou93.enet.dec.com
                      Peter Szmidt    75470.420@CompuServe.com
Newsgroups: utk.general,utk.gossip,tn.general,tn.talk
From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: tn.general
Subject: Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:04:16 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO

What it is....

The 2nd annual gathering of the world-wide NeXT community!
	An international Developers Conference!
		An educational Users Conference!
			A NeXTSTEP product exposition!
				A global User Group Meeting!

Call 1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call
(508)470-3880 for registration information.

When it is...       
      MAY 25-27, 1993,
        
Where it is...
	THE MOSCONE CENTER,
             SAN FRANCISCO.
             
What to do....
Pass the word.  Tell your user group members, colleagues, fellow
developers, and friends, to schedule this date, and stay tuned for
more information!!

Once again, call to get on the mailing list for advanced registration
and more information about the 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo....

1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call 508-470-3880

If you wish to receive future electronic updates on NeXTWORLD Expo,
please send email to 

	user_groups@next.com.

Newsgroups: ok.general
From: mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien)
Subject: monthly meeting of $USR in Tulsa
Organization: DRD Corporation
Distribution: ok
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:59:47 GMT

The regular monthly meeting of the Dollar USR Association
takes place next Wednesday (January 13) at the Sheraton Inn - Airport
in Tulsa.  Socializing starts at 6.  Dinner (if you want it) at
7.  Program at 7:30.

Tulsix has moved to the University of Tulsa where it is now known
as tulsix.pa.utulsa.edu.  This opens up more possibilities for holders
of accounts on tulsix.

The program will talk about tulsix, how it is configured and the basic
applications.

-- 
mark.lawrence@drd.com                                     (918)743-3013
DRD Corp., 5506 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74105         (918)745-9037 fax
Newsgroups: ok.general
From: ksg@orac.holonet.net (Kevin S. Green)
Subject: Re: monthly meeting of $USR in Tulsa
Organization: Information Access Technologies, Inc. of Berkeley, CA
Distribution: ok
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:19:28 GMT

What _is_ Tulsix? 
-- 
Kevin S. Green / ksg@holonet.net OR gargoth@aol.com
From: hersh@bu-bio.bu.edu (Doug Hersh)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: CGM format conversion
Keywords: CGM metafiles
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:22:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boston University Marine Program, Woods Hole, MA, USA


	Is anyone aware of a program for the PC that converts .CGM (computer 
graphics metafile) format files to raster format files such as
.GIF files?  I would like make .CGM files in Sygraph, then convert them to a 
raster format to make slides.     
	Thanks for your help.

Doug Hersh
hersh@bu-bio.bu.edu
BUMP/MBL, Woods Hole, MA 02543
From: omond@embl-heidelberg.de
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: Protein Structure Prediction mailserver
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:25:45 GMT
Organization: EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

In article <1993Jan2.173434.1@vax.path.ox.ac.uk>, jasper@vax.path.ox.ac.uk writes:

> 	I haven't *seen* this posted anywhere yet (apologies if it has been,
> I have that sneaking suspicion we are losing some articles through the feed)
> but the information is tucked away in Nature, so I think it needs advertising!
>
> ****  PHD - a new mail server for protein secondary structure prediction  ***
>
> The return times are reasonably fast, but maybe that's because I'm testing it
> in the vacation? Overall round trip time for a 200 amino acid domain is about
> 30 minutes. Of course this could get a lot slower if everyone tries it at
> once!

Jasper, sorry to revert to posting to the net, but ... you might be pleasantly
surprised to get a faster turnround if you configure your machine 
vax.path.ox.ac.uk to actually ACCEPT e-mail connections.  We've got lots
of stuff in our mail queue for you guys, and your machine constantly rejects
SMTP connection request from us.  Actually this seems to be a common "feature"
of sites in Oxford, since it happens pretty regularly.  What mailer software
are you running ?

Regards,

Roy Omond
System Manager/PostMaster etc. etc.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany.
From: q00023@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: want pkunpak program
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:15:56 GMT
Distribution: bionet

Dear netters,
	I am looking for PKUNPAK program for de-arcing a program. Also I
amlooking for some useful list of biotechnoloy softwares. Could anyone can send
me the program and the list?

Thanks in advance,
Gabriel Cheung
From: gartmann@VMS.MPIIB-FREIBURG.MPG.dbp.de (Christoph Gartmann)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: New GCG-menu for VMS
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:40:34 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Content-Identifier: 12
Original-To: bio-software@uk.ac.daresbury
Conversion: Prohibited

Hello,

a new version of GCG-menu for VMS is now available from the EMBL-FileServer.
Send a message to NetServ@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE containing the line
   GET VAX_SOFTWARE:gcgmenu.mft
Or use anonymous FTP. You'll find the package in /pub/software/vax/gcgmenu.mft .
You need MFTU to decode it.

MFTU may be retrieved from fileserv@wkuvx1.bitnet . Send a message containing
the line
   SEND MFTU
to obtain a copy.

GCG-menu is a menu driven interface to the GCG-programs. See the readme-file in
the package for details.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Christoph Gartmann          Phone : +49-761-5108-465   Fax: -221           |
| Max-Planck-Institut fuer    PSI   : PSI%02624505016037::GARTMANN           |
| Immunbiologie               X400  : S=gartmann;OU=vms;O=mpiib-freiburg;    |
| Stuebeweg 51                        P=mpg;A=dbp;C=de                       |
| D-7800  Freiburg            RFC   : gartmann@vms.mpiib-freiburg.mpg.dbp.de |
| FRG                           will change to:     gartmann@immunbio.mpg.de |
+------------- Do you know MENUE, the user environment for VMS? -------------+
Newsgroups: bionet.software
From: bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg (Dr Tan Tin Wee)
Subject: BLAZE still available?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:12:17 GMT


Is the BLAZE server still available to network users?
TinWee.

-- 
    Tin-Wee TAN                        /  INTERNET: bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg
    Dept of Biochemistry               /  BITNET:   BCHTANTW@NUSVM
    National University of Singapore   /  Tel:      (65)-772-3678
    Singapore 0511                     /  Fax:      (65)-779-1453
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Gopher hole for DB taxonomies?
From: robison1@husc10.harvard.edu (Keith Robison)
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:09:50 GMT
Keywords: gopher, NCBI, Swiss-Prot, PIR, GenBank

Do any of the biogophers out there have the capability
to search the taxonomy files which NCBI has generated
for the major databases?

(If not, this is a HINT :-)



Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI

robison@biosun.harvard.edu 



Newsgroups: bionet.software
From: bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg (Dr Tan Tin Wee)
Subject: GENIUSnet and EMBL
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:15:09 GMT


Can anyone tell me the relationship between the 
network servers at GENIUSnet netserv@genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de
and at EMBL's netserv@embl-heidelberg.de?

Is the ftp server at sunserver.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de
still serving? If so what?

Thanks

Tin Wee

-- 
    Tin-Wee TAN                        /  INTERNET: bchtantw@nuscc.nus.sg
    Dept of Biochemistry               /  BITNET:   BCHTANTW@NUSVM
    National University of Singapore   /  Tel:      (65)-772-3678
    Singapore 0511                     /  Fax:      (65)-779-1453
Newsgroups: bionet.software
From: danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Dan Jacobson)
Subject: Re: Plasmid draw program for IBM
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Distribution: bionet
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:18:12 GMT

In article <9301060448.AA14948@net.bio.net> preissj@CLVAX1.CL.MSU.EDU ("J Preiss--Seq Anal") writes:
>Plasmid.drw
>
>I have a request to post to the bio software net.  I want a
>program to draw plasmids for IBM/DOS based computers.  I have
>compiled a wish list of what I want in such a program.  If anyone
>knows of any program that comes close to my desires, I would
>appreciate hearing about it.  
>(wish list deleted)

There are a few programs which draw plasmids for IBM/DOS.  I don't
think that they meet all of your specs but you can probably achieve
what you'd like by the combination of  one of these programs and some
utility programs for the PC.

1) Plasmid - can be retrieved by anonymous ftp (or gopher)
from ftp.bio.indiana.edu in the molbio/ibmpc directory.

2) Plasmidg - which can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from
ftp.bchs.uh.edu in the /pub/gene-server/dos directory

3) Easyclon - which can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from
ftp.bchs.uh.edu in the /pub/gene-server/dos directory

These can also be retrieved by anonymous ftp or gopher from
many of the EMBnet nodes.

Best of luck,

Dan Jacobson

danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
From: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: Experiences with Entrez under UNIX?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:04:12 GMT
Reply-To: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Organization: Molecular Biology - Mass Gen Hospital

If you have a CD-ROM drive, the Entrez CD-ROM disk and access to ftp (so
you can ftp the Entrez Unix software) it takes minutes to setup. I setup
Entrez on a SPARC and on a VMS system without any troubles thanks to NCBI
for the Unix setup info and Will Gilbert for the VMS info and executable.

MIke
From: preissj@CLVAX1.CL.MSU.EDU ("J Preiss--Seq Anal")
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Small scale Auto Sequence entry system
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:39:00 GMT
Distribution: bionet

sequence.pgm

     I am looking for a system for automating entry of sequence
data into the computer in our lab.

     We are a midsized (about 12 of us) biochemistry lab who
sequence 2-10 kb per year to verify clones and site directed
mutants.  We use Sanger di-deoxy sequencing with Sequenase and
35-S-dATP on acrylamide gels and X-ray film.  We use an IBM clone
(386-25) and GCG on a VAX for sequence analysis.

     Currently we read sequence films on a light box, record data
on scratch paper, and type it into the computer for analysis. 
This is tedious and error prone.

     The lab PI recently asked me to recommend a system to enter
sequence data into the computer automatically.  He wants to spend
under $1,000- and wants to stick to the traditional autorad
technology that he feels comfortable with.

     I have a vision of a system in mind, but have no idea if
anything like it exists.  I envision a small scanner device to
enter data into the computer and software which would allow you
to see the autorad on screen.  I would like to see a visual
picture of the computers choices for reading the sequence which
could be edited on screen by the user.  Data should be in a
format which could be easily saved as an ASCII file of sequence
or directly shipped down to the vax for GCG to analyze.

     Ideally, I would like some versatility in the system.  If I
had a scanner on hand, I would like to be able to use it to enter
sequence from old publications or faxed data directly from text
on paper.  I would like the option to digitize pictures of
agarose gels into the computer to use graphics programs to add
pointers and text to the gel picture for publication quality
figures. 

     This system would require some hardware and some software,
of which we have neither.  The last system I used was purchased
around 1986 and I no longer have access to it or any of it's
components.  Any suggestions for hardware and/or software for a
system like this would be greatly appreciated.  In leu of my
dream system, I would also appreciate any recommendations from
people using small scale automated sequence data entry systems. 
Any warnings or advice will be greatly appreciated.

     A summary will be posted back to the net if I get anything
interesting and helpful back.  If I get nothing I will try
posting to autoseqs, but I don't subscribe to that group.


          Thanks

          Dr.  Leonard N. Bloksberg
          PreissJ@clvax1.cl.msu.edu
          Dept. of Biochemistry
          Michigan State University

                         "Life is weird"
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: RE: GCG Synchronisation Problem
From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:47:56 GMT
Reply-To: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Distribution: bionet
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [BASEL]   

In article <1993Jan5.145442.6246@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, PARSONS_A@snd01.pcr.co.uk writes:
...
|> message - makes you wonder what we a re paying GCG maintenance for
|> sometimes.
|> 

I wouldn't be that harsh. Guess where the knowledge comes from first - I 
found the GCG guys to be quite responsive, as compared to other software 
companies. I certainly would appreciate to get all maintenance for nothing 
:-) but I am afraid that we would wait very long to get the next version 
this way. You certainly can flame anyone we ought to pay money  but 
the example chosen isn't the prototype suited for blaming. 

By the way: did you get the databases from GCG or did you get them else-
where, and how much did you pay for getting the databases? If you consider 
the current situation of the database vendors, all people expect that 
the data are available for free on FTP, and certainly formatted in 
all available and possible formats. That is apparently true for some 
databases, but you get what you paid for. I don't want to pay more 
either (in particular, the database you had problems with is not the 
cheapest on the block if you purchase its CD-ROM), but the current funding 
model for databases is that the public state money funds the databases 
with really big money, and the users get it for negotiable money. If 
the current growth continues, I am pessimistic enough to predict more 
of these problems as you had in the future. 

Regards 
Reinhard 

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From: c.pook@ic.ac.uk
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Sybyl 5.5
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:30:35 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Original-To: bio-soft@uk.ac.daresbury


Hello,

I have recently been trying to find my way around Sybyl5.5 running on a
Silicon Graphics and using it to examine a Brookhaven PDB file. I could
get the protein up on the screen with no problem and manipulate it etc.,
but it seemed unable to recognise the connectivities between heterologous
sugar atoms (the protein has several N and O-linked glycosylation sites).
The atoms appeared simply as individual dots. It made no difference whether
the biopolymer protein or carbohydrate dictionaries were open.

Does anyone out there know how to solve this problem ? I have previously
used Frodo on an Evans and Sutherland, which manages better - the sugar
structures appear but are not linked to the polypeptide. In contrast simple
display programs running on a Mac seem to be able to get it absolutely
right!

Alternatively, does anyone know of any software that has specific features
allowing the construction, modelling etc of glycopeptides ? I once asked a
rep how is program coped with glycoproteins or proteoglycans and just got
a blank look and standard answer about the wonders of the package.

Looking forward to your replies,

Chris Pook
Imperial College
London

c.pook@ic.ac.uk
From: POSTMASTER@NBRF.GEORGETOWN.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Announcement of PIR Technical Development News
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:59:01 GMT
Distribution: bionet


                Announcement of the Protein Information Resource
                           Technical Development News

We have on-going efforts to standardize the PIR databases, improving their
parsability and compliance with CODATA and other format standards.  During
the next year the combined staffs of the PIR-International will be imposing
and enforcing many new rules and requirements on the distributed versions of
the database.  Some of these rules and requirements may affect the currently
existing software designed to read the PIR databases in "NBRF format".
Notification of the broader aspects of these changes will be placed in our
newsletters and in announcements posted on the BioSci Newsgroups PROTEINS and
BIONEWS.  However, some people may wish to be informed about the technical
aspects of these changes before they appear in a database release.  For that
reason we will be setting up an electronic mailing list to inform software
developers and others interested in the technical aspects of these database
changes.

If you would be interested in being placed on this mailing list, please send
a brief electronic mail note to me at one of the network addresses below.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                 Dr. John S. Garavelli
                                 Database Coordinator
                                 Protein Information Resource
                                 National Biomedical Research Foundation
                                 Washington, DC  20007
                                 POSTMAST@GUNBRF.BITNET
                                 POSTMASTER@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Experiences with Entrez under UNIX?
From: robison1@husc10.harvard.edu (Keith Robison)
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:11:31 GMT

Does anyone out there have NCBI's Entrez running under UNIX?
What machine are you using, and how much trouble was it to
install and how reliable is it?  I had heard rumors of it
being a difficult beast to install and maintain, but that
was 6 months ago so maybe if they had any basis they are
now false.

Thanks.


Keith Robison
Harvard University
Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics / HHMI

robison@biosun.harvard.edu
From: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: Entrez where to get and costs
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:43:29 GMT
Reply-To: cherry@OPAL.MGH.HARVARD.EDU
Organization: Molecular Biology - Mass Gen Hospital

>In article <1993Jan8.094733.3472@pollux.lu.se>, Bo.Servenius@wblab.lu.se (Bo Servenius) writes:
>>* What OS is it available for?

SUN SPARCstation with OpenWindows, Ultrix workstation with Motif, SGI
Iris workstation, Macintosh, or PC compatible with Microsoft Windows,
and VMS workstation with Motif.

>>* Performance on Sun SS10 compared to Mac

Faster on the Sun, but you are limited by the speed of the CD-ROM so
the speed difference is small. I personally use if on a Macintosh most
however I have SPARC and VMS versions available.

>>* Hardware requirements?

CD-ROM and graphic display (does not work on a character based terminal.)

>>* Costs for the different versions

Software is Free, the CD-ROM cost about $60 for a years subscription
which includes six issues of the CD-ROM.

>>* Email adress where to get more information from

info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Or use anonymous ftp to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and look in the entrez directory
for the README.

I'm not an offical source of information about Entrez just another
user.

Mike
Newsgroups: bionet.software
From: Bo Servenius <Bo.Servenius@wblab.lu.se>
Subject: Entrez where to get and costs
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7730D161A01380B@macservenius.wblab.lu.se>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:51:02 GMT
Organization: University of Lund, Sweden
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:47:33 GMT

Hello Netters:

HAve seen some postings regarding Entrez and I have some
questions regarding it:

* What OS is it available for?

* Performance on Sun SS10 compared to Mac

* Hardware requirements?

* Costs for the different versions

* Email adress where to get more information from

yours

BOSSE