gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) (10/21/89)
IUBIO ARCHIVE FOR BIOLOGY The IuBio Archive will maintain biology software and data. Molecular biology is the area of concentration. It will include software for Macintosh, VAX-VMS, Unix, MS-DOS and any other important computer operating systems. Access to the archive is via anonymous FTP (file transfer protocol) programs that access computers on the Internet. ACCESS TO IUBIO ARCHIVE ----------------------- IuBio is on the Internet network of computers with the name IuBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (IP name) 129.79.1.101 (IP address) If your computer system is linked to the Internet, it probably has an FTP program. Each FTP program has it's own peculiarities, but most follow a general syntax: ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu -- connect to iubio user: anonymous password: guest or your real user name (prefered) ? or help -- general help for ftp cd [.subdirectory] -- change directory binary -- use full binary transfer ascii -- use text transfer get any.file -- fetch a file from the archive put my.file -- put a file to the archive (only for [archive.receive] directory) bye -- close the connection CURRENT CONTENTS OF THE ARCHIVE ------------------------------- An abbreviated directory of the archive is Directory IUBIO$DUA0:[ARCHIVE] ARCHIVE.DOC;2 About this archive ARCHIVE.LIS;1 Full Archive directory list BIOLOGY.DIR;1 General biology CHEMISTRY.DIR;1 Chemistry HELP.DIR;1 Help documents MOLBIO.DIR;1 Molecular biology RECEIVE.DIR;1 Place for contributions SCIENCE.DIR;1 General sciences UTIL.DIR;1 Computer and archive utilities Directory IUBIO$DUA0:[ARCHIVE.MOLBIO] ALIGN.DIR;1 Sequence alignment, including multiple aligners DATA.DIR;1 Molecular data EVOLVE.DIR;1 Evolution and phylogeny IBMPC.DIR;1 MSDOS software MAC.DIR;1 Macintosh software RNAFOLD.DIR;1 RNA secondary structure SEARCH.DIR;1 Databank searching Most of the software is as received from the authors or other. In the case of software source, it may or may not be ready to compile and run on a given operating system. I plan to be adding more software, data and documentation over the next several months. If you have suggestions, questions or comments, please let me know. Addresses are listed below. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARCHIVE --------------------------- Contributions of broad interest in any area of biology, and related areas of chemistry and other sciences, are welcome. These may be software or data. Contributions of interest over several computer platforms should either be plain text files or .ARC archives. You may put your contribution in the [Archive.Receive] directory, using your FTP put command. You may also send e-mail compatible files (usually .UUE or .HQX encoded files or plain text) to Archive@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (preferred IP address) GilbertD@IUBACS (bitnet address) Don Gilbert, BioComputing Office (land mail) Biology Department, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Any general mail about the archive should be addressed here also. This archive of biology software and data is sponsored by the Biology department, Unversity Computing Services, and Institute of Molecular Biology, at Indiana University and by your hard working archivist, Don Gilbert. USING THE ARCHIVE ----------------- Users not familiar with the Vax VMS operating system of this archive will find the subdirectory syntax a bit weird. To change from one directory to another, as from your FTP program, you need to enclose directory path in square brackets "[]". To change from the main directory to a subdirectory, use the command: ftp> cd [.subname] See Archive.Doc in the archive for further details. -- Don Gilbert