zqli@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Zhenqin Li) (07/08/88)
From an article in last year's "Nature", I learned of the existence of BIONET, which maintains databases and softwares for DNA and protein sequence analysis. I would appreciate if anyone could share experience on how to access it, or how to be put on the mailing list of BIONET without paying the $400 annual subscription fee.
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (07/08/88)
zqli@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Zhenqin Li) writes: > I would appreciate if anyone could share experience on how to [...] > be put on the mailing list of BIONET without paying the $400 annual > subscription fee. There is a bionet top-level news distribution on usenet which is gatewayed (bi-directionally, I think) from the various BIONET bboards. To get the bionet groups, all you have to do is find a news neighbor and ask them to send them to you. If you can't find a closer site, we would be willing to set up a uucp link just to send you those groups. The traffic is pretty light (in fact, sometimes I wonder if anybody uses them at all). There are a number of NNTP sites which get bionet as well. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
kristoff@presto.ig.com (David Kristofferson) (07/09/88)
Information about BIONET may be obtained by mailing to bionet@bionet-20.arpa. Note also that all of the bulletins from BIONET that you refer to are USENET newsgroups beginning with bionet. etc., e.g., bionet.general. Dave Kristofferson BIONET Resource Manager kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa
kristoff@presto.ig.com (David Kristofferson) (07/09/88)
> There is a bionet top-level news distribution on usenet which is >gatewayed (bi-directionally, I think) from the various BIONET bboards. To >get the bionet groups, all you have to do is find a news neighbor and ask >them to send them to you. If you can't find a closer site, we would be >willing to set up a uucp link just to send you those groups. The traffic >is pretty light (in fact, sometimes I wonder if anybody uses them at all). >There are a number of NNTP sites which get bionet as well. >-- >Roy Smith, System Administrator >Public Health Research Institute >{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net >"The connector is the network" Roy is correct that the newsgroups are gatewayed bi-directionally from the ARPANET/BITNET distribution. BIONET has helped many sites get feeds for this purpose. The usage is light (as viewed by a computer scientist) on some of the special interest newsgroups because people are still just learning about their existence. Several of the groups are fairly heavily utilized as far as biological newsgroups go, but they are definitely lightly used compared to those in use by computer scientists. For example, I would guess that the total number of messages on the various special interest groups may exceed sci.bio and is growing rapidly. The molecular biology community is just being introduced to this type of technology. I expect rapid growth in the use of these groups or the next year or two. A new biological bboard network termed BIOSCI has been established and copies of messages on these groups are being distributed automatically via a variety of networks (ARPANET,BITNET,JANET,EARN) worldwide. The bionet.* newsgroups were set up as specialized forums for research scientists since the load of messages on general newsgroups may be more than some researchers want to take the time to read. The philosophy behind the groups is really to provide special interest groups for researchers in technical areas of molecular biology. This idea is just beginning to catch on among scientists in this field. Dave Kristofferson BIONET Resource Manager kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa Equivalences of the Unix USENET newsgroup names to the ARPANET mailing list names follow: bionet.general .....................BIONET-NEWS (changing to BIONEWS) bionet.jobs ........................EMPLOYMENT bionet.molbio.news .................RESEARCH-NEWS bionet.molbio.seqnet ...............SEQNET bionet.molbio.bio-matrix ...........BIO-MATRIX bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts .......METHODS-AND-REAGANTS bionet.molbio.genbank ..............GENBANK-BB bionet.molbio.embldatabank .........EMBL-DATABANK bionet.molbio.pir ..................PIR bionet.molbio.evolution ............MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION bionet.molbio.gene-express .........GENE-EXPRESSION bionet.molbio.gene-org .............GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION bionet.molbio.oncogenes ............ONCOGENES bionet.molbio.plant ................PLANT-GENETICS bionet.molbio.proteins .............PROTEIN-ANALYSIS bionet.molbio.yeast ................YEAST-GENETICS bionet.sci-resources ...............SCIENCE-RESOURCES bionet.software.pc .................PC-SOFTWARE bionet.software.pc.comm ............PC-COMMUNICATION bionet.software.contrib ............CONTRIBUTED-SOFTWARE