KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA (05/28/88)
From: David Kristofferson <Kristofferson@BIONET-20.ARPA>
The following announcement is being posted at the BIONET National
Computer Resource for Molecular Biology in California, the University
of Maryland BIOTECH bboard service, the University of Uppsala in
Sweden, and on the SEQNET service in Cambridge, England. From these
initial sites it will be distributed to other institutions around the
world.
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The International BIOSCI Electronic Bulletin Board Network
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A new international molecular biology electronic bulletin board
("bboard") network is being established. The name of this new bboard
network will be BIOSCI, and its goal is to allow researchers easy
access to scientific bulletin boards at local or regional sites
("nodes") on an accessible network. These nodes will establish a
routing system which will automatically forward local bboard messages
to the corresponding bboard at all other nodes. Scientists will thus
be able to communicate directly with their colleagues around the world
without specializing in network esoterica. They will also be able to
participate in only the special interest groups (see the initial list
below) that they desire to see.
Messages to the bboards are posted without editorial intervention.
This policy will be maintained until traffic reaches a level at which
editorial moderation needs to be established.
As the first step in implementing this scheme, the bulletin boards
maintained presently by the BIONET National Computer Resource for
Molecular Biology in the U.S.A. will be expanded to include the
participation of other sites. BIONET's first collaborator in this new
venture is the Biomedical Center at the University of Uppsala in
Sweden. In the near future BIOTECH at the University of Maryland and
SEQNET in the U.K. will also join. From now until July BIOTECH will
receive messages from each of the bboards listed below and will
archive them under the respective categories in their list server
which is accessible to both BITNET and Internet users. After that
time BIOTECH will have software in place to both receive and forward
separate bboards to other sites. SEQNET in England is also acquiring
new hardware for bboard distribution, and the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory and the University of Joensuu in Finland have also
expressed an interest in participating. Other sites are invited to
participate if they possess the necessary hardware and software for
multiple bboard distribution (please contact
kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa or mats@bmc.BMC1.UU.SE).
The current list of bboards follows but other topics will be added as
demand requires. Users can post messages to any of the boards below
by mailing to the appropriate address at either BIONET or the
University of Uppsala (whichever is more convenient). Each bboard
address consists of the bboard name from the list below followed by
the host name of the University of Uppsala or BIONET computer. For
example, the PLANT-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY bboard can be accessed by mailing
to either plant-molecular-biology@bmc1.BMC.UU.SE or
plant-molecular-biology@bionet-20.arpa. EARN users can mail to the
abbreviated address (<= 8 characters / bboard name) at the University
of Uppsala.
BBOARD NAME TOPIC
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BIONET-NEWS General BIONET announcements
BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases
CONTRIBUTED-SOFTWARE Information on public-domain mol. biol. programs
EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff
EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities in the biological sciences
GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff
GENE-EXPRESSION Scientific Interest Group
GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION Scientific Interest Group
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Scientific Interest Group
ONCOGENES Scientific Interest Group
PC-COMMUNICATIONS Information on PC communications software
PC-SOFTWARE Information on PC-software for scientists
PIR Messages to and from the PIR database staff
PLANT-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Scientific Interest Group
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Scientific Interest Group
RESEARCH-NEWS Research news of interest to the community
SCIENCE-RESOURCES Information about funding agencies, etc.
YEAST-GENETICS Scientific Interest Group
Sample BBoard posting address format: molecular-evolution@bionet-20.arpa
molecular-evolution@bmc1.bmc.uu.se
(EARN) mol-evol@semax51
The BITNET/EARN abbreviations follow:
BBOARD NAME BITNET/EARN Name
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BIONET-NEWS BIONETBB
BIO-MATRIX BIOMATRX
CONTRIBUTED-SOFTWARE SOFT-CON
EMBL-DATABANK EMBL-DB
EMPLOYMENT BIOJOBS
GENBANK-BB GENBANKB
GENE-EXPRESSION GENE-EXP
GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION GENE-ORG
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS METHODS
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION MOL-EVOL
ONCOGENES ONCOGENE
PC-COMMUNICATIONS SOFT-COM
PC-SOFTWARE SOFT-PC
PIR PIR-BB
PLANT-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY PLANT
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS PROTEINS
RESEARCH-NEWS RESEARCH
SCIENCE-RESOURCES SCI-RES
YEAST-GENETICS YEAST
Both the Biomedical Center at University of Uppsala and BIONET now
handle requests for additions and deletions from the BIOSCI mailing
lists. Send requests (or other administrative matters) to the
appropriate BIOSCI address below.
The Americas
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biosci@bionet-20.arpa
Europe
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Internet address: biosci@bmc1.BMC.UU.SE (preferred)
Bitnet address: biosci@semax51
Elsewhere
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whichever address above is more accessible.
Eventually the University of Uppsala will handle redistribution
primarily in Scandinavia, but will temporarily handle distribution to
other European sites as well until other regional redistribution sites
are established. In the United States BIONET and BIOTECH will soon be
sharing this responsibility and additional sites may be added.
BIOSCI represents a new advance in communications in the biological
sciences. We believe that the community will find this endeavor to be
both rewarding and exciting!
Sincerely,
Mats Sundvall David Kristofferson, Ph.D.
mats@bmc.BMC1.UU.SE Manager, BIONET Resource
kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa
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Technical note to European EARN users:
If you are on BITNET you can route RFC822 mail to the .SE
domain as described below ------
Domain: .SE
Name: SUNET, Swedish University NETwork
Gateway: MAILER@SEKTH
Gatemaster: POSTMAST@SEKTH
Please use this gateway or other Internet routes if you can until
other EARN nodes are added to the BIOSCI network.
In the U.S. and Canada most BITNET sites can route mail by addressing
directly to @bionet-20.arpa addresses. Either the full bboard names
or the BITNET abbreviations may be used, e.g.,
bionet-news@bionet-20.arpa or bionetbb@bionet-20.arpa
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