NOREILLY%IRLEARN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ("Niall O'Reilly ", NOREILLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE) (10/17/88)
Niall O'Reilly University College Dublin Computer Centre
BIOSCI Node at University College Dublin, Ireland October 1988
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The Irish National EARN node, IRLEARN has joined the internation-
al network of BIOSCI nodes which provide electronic mail distri-
bution and bulletin board services for biotechnologists.
IRLEARN is the fourth such node to date, joining others at
the BIONET National Computer Resource for Molecular Biology,
Mountain View, California
for subscribers in the Americas,
Daresbury for subscribers in the United Kingdom (mainly on
JANET), and
the Biomedical Centre, University of Uppsala, Sweden
for subscribers in Scandinavia (mainly on NORDUNET).
IRLEARN will be the primary distribution point for EARN users,
and will also serve users of the Irish Academic Network, HEANET.
BIOSCI services provided from IRLEARN will include:
automatic distribution to BIOSCI subscribers at all BIOSCI
nodes of electronic mail messages sent to a BIOSCI address at
IRLEARN;
automatic distribution to BIOSCI subscribers at IRLEARN of
electronic mail messages sent to a BIOSCI address at any oth-
er BIOSCI node;
a BIOSCI archive from which collections of recent BIOSCI mes-
sages may be retrieved by network users;
BIOSCI bulletin boards which will give local IRLEARN users
access to the BIOSCI archive.
It is expected that the archive and bulletin boards will hold the
messages of the current month and those of the immediately previ-
ous month.
Several different BIOSCI addresses for electronic mail will be
available at IRLEARN, as at the other BIOSCI nodes. Each address
is intended for messages on a particular topic, and all current
addresses are shown below.
If the computer which you use for electronic mail is connected to
EARN (or to BITNET or NETNORTH) then you can send mail to any of
the addresses listed below at node IRLEARN. If it is connected to
some other network, you should send to the desired address at
node IRLEARN.UCD.IE (preferred) or IRLEARN.BITNET.
Each address also has a corresponding distribution list at
IRLEARN, automatically managed by the Revised LISTSERV software.
This software allows network users to become subscribers to any
of the distribution lists, and so to receive electronic mail mes-
sages sent to the corresponding BIOSCI mail address at IRLEARN or
at any of the other BIOSCI nodes. You may, of course, subscribe
to as many of these distribution lists as you wish. The command
to use to subscribe to one of these lists is
SUBSCRIBE listname personal-name
where
listname is the name of a distribution list, and
personal-name is your personal name (not your login name, or
mail address)
and the command may be sent either in the body of an electronic
mail message to LISTSERV@IRLEARN, or using the VM/CMS TELL or
VAX/VMS SEND command. The distribution list names are also shown
below, together with the corresponding addresses.
Certain BIOSCI nodes can use longer mail addresses than is possi-
ble at IRLEARN. These 'long' addresses (of which one is actually
shorter!) are also shown below, with the corresponding IRLEARN
addresses and distribution list names.
The BIOSCI addresses for electronic mail at IRLEARN are listed
below, together with the corresponding distribution list names,
the 'long' addresses just mentioned, and the topics for discus-
sion.
IRLEARN Distribution Long Address (for reference only)
Address List and Topic
BIONEWS $BIONEWS BIONEWS
General announcements
BIOMATRX $BIOMATR BIO-MATRIX
Applications of computers to biological
databases
BIOTECH $BIOTECH BIOTECH
Biotechnology Issues
SOFT-CON SOFT$CON CONTRIBUTED-SOFTWARE
Information on molecular biology programs
contributed to the public domain
EMBL-DB EMBL$DB EMBL-DATABANK
Messages to and from the EMBL database
staff
BIOJOBS $BIOJOBS EMPLOYMENT
Job opportunities
GENBANKB $GENBANK GENBANK-BB
Messages to and from the GenBank
database staff
GENE-EXP GENE$EXP GENE-EXPRESSION
Scientific Interest Group
GENE-ORG GENE$ORG GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION
Scientific Interest Group
METHODS $METHODS METHODS-AND-REAGENTS
Requests for information and lab reagents
MOL-EVOL MOL$EVOL MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION
Scientific Interest Group
ONCOGENE $ONCOGEN ONCOGENES
Scientific Interest Group
SOFT-COM SOFT$COM PC-COMMUNICATIONS
Information on communications software
SOFT-PC SOFT$PC PC-SOFTWARE
Information on PC-software for scientists
PIR-BB PIR$BB PIR
Messages to and from the PIR
database staff
PLANT $PLANT PLANT-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY
Scientific Interest Group
PROTEINS $PROTEIN PROTEIN-ANALYSIS
Scientific Interest Group
RESEARCH $RESEARC RESEARCH-NEWS
Research news of interest to the community
SCI-RES SCI$RES SCIENCE-RESOURCES
Information about funding agencies, etc.
SWISSPRT $SWISSPR SWISS-PROT
Messages to and from the SWISS-PROT
database staff
YEAST $YEAST YEAST-GENETICS
Scientific Interest Group