daemon@ig.UUCP (12/08/87)
From: Dave Kristofferson <KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA> BIONET is proud to announce the availability of a FASTP Protein Database Search Server. This program allows users to submit sequences by e-mail to one of IntelliGenetics' Sun 3/280 computers (a 4 million instruction per second machine!) and receive the results of the search by return mail complete with similarity scores and alignments. During off-peak periods we have clocked searches of the entire PIR database in under a minute! During peak periods turnaround may be 10-20 minutes. The program is very simple to run and instructions are given under HELP FASTP-MAIL after the @ prompt. I would like to thank Warren Gish at Berkeley for contributing the code to BIONET, and Jean-Pierre Dautricourt and Rob Liebschutz at BIONET for getting the program running and implementing the mail server respectively. This program now becomes THE method of choice for protein database searches on BIONET. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIONET Resource Manager ARPANET Address: kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa BITNET Address: kristofferson%bionet-20.arpa@wiscvm.bitnet -------