j_dall@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au (02/13/91)
DNA and Protein Sequencing Workshop We are holding a Workshop in Perth, Australia, on the analysis of both nucleic acid and protein sequences. Issues to be addressed include: 1. Computer analysis for homology searches. 2. What different levels of significance mean. 3. Search strageties for local and global homologies. 4. Prediction of antigenicity of peptide sequence. We would like to hear from anyone who has already compared various computer analysis programs, and who has both practical and theoretical expertise, with an in-depth knowledge of: 1. The computer algorithms involved in various sequence searches. 2. The general strategy and process of performing a sequence search. 3. A variety of different sequence search programs and databases. Would anyone who considers themselves experts in any of these fields like to attend the Meeting from 22nd February, 1991 to 24th February, 1991? We will pay airfares and accomodation expenses to anyone who we would consider to fulfill our requirements. Please send replies and C.V. ASAP by fax to: 0011 619 224 2920 or reply by internet to: j_dall@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au regards, Dr L Abraham and J Dall Dept of Clinical Immunology Royal Perth Hospital
IBT329%DJUKFA11@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (02/13/91)
Correction, all together 9 msg. on "DNA and protein sequencing workshop"; DO loop of PCR is back.
kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (02/14/91)
> Correction, all together 9 msg. on "DNA and protein sequencing workshop"; > DO loop of PCR is back. After seeing all of the messages yesterday, I alerted the poster to the problem that this produced for e-mail subscribers. As a general rule crossing posting on BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups is not a good idea, although posting *important* items to 2 or 3 newsgroups can be tolerated. The poster in Australia was a USENET user and did not realize that there are associated e-mail lists with the newsgroups which would result in some recipients receiving multiple copies from different newsgroups. On the bright side, I have found it interesting to note that the Australians who obviously have a geographical barrier to surmount seem to be far ahead of most of the rest of us in using USENET, although my understanding is that they are under a much tighter funding situation than the U.S. It seems to be extremely widespread there to the point that there is almost no need for e-mail subscriptions. If everyone was using USENET there would have been no cluttered mailboxes nor any of the other recent problems. We are continuing to work on a new organizational structure for BIOSCI and I hope to be able to report to you on this soon. Dave "broken record" Kristofferson
IBT329%DJUKFA11@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (02/14/91)
Thank you for comprehensive info. Sincerely, Dragoljub Bilanovic IBT 3 KFA, Julich, Germany Email. ibt329.djukfa11
kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (02/15/91)
(unmentionable stuff deleted but the gist of it concerned getting a news feed from another campus computer) > ... DOESNOT want our VAX to be a direct news feed as he doesn't want > to duplicate the storage. What do you suggest? Could you list our options > directly to the Net as I think the problem is one of understanding both > the problem with e-mail as a news feed and understanding the various > options as solutions. If your VAX is to be a client of the Engineering computer's VAX then you will need news software that supports NNTP clients and servers. I am not sure that ANU-NEWS does this, but I am checking with others here who are more familiar with it than I. The limitation here will be the speed of the connection between your two machines. I would assume that you have an Ethernet link because anything slower might be annoying. Another option is to have a newsfeed of just the bionet groups to your local VAX. You can limit the number of USENET groups that you receive. The bionet groups would not require very much extra storage on your machine and might give you slightly better response. The news software can also be configured to delete messages older than X number of days although you can also exempt individual groups like bionet.journals.contents if you want to save the TOC postings. > Personally "The-News" and > the other Mac based net news readers are not worth a damn compared to > e-mail. I was also annoyed by the delays even over the Ethernet involved in transferring messages from the server to the Mac. News software is not that hard to use and a good case can be made for running it directly on the server if you know how to edit messages on that machine. The main advantage to the Mac programs is the availability of Mac-like editing. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net