Don.Gilbert@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) (11/17/90)
Archive-name: genbank-search/30-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: Don.Gilbert@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) Original-subject: Genbank Search from networked Macs Archive-site: Iubio.Bio.Indiana.Edu [129.79.1.101] Archive-directory: [archive.molbio.mac] Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) The GenBank Search is a Macintosh Hypercard stack for interacting with the computer services of GenBank, the molecular biology databank. The GenBank computer provides two generally useful services for molecular biology by electronic mail: * Searching of the current GenBank databank for similarities with a query nucleic acid or protien sequence of yours, and * Retreival of a sequence in the current GenBank by locus name or accession number. To use this GenBank Search stack, you must have: -- a Macintosh that is connected to the national Internet network, thru an Appletalk or Ethernet cable, -- your Mac must have the MacTCP communications software, and Hypercard version 1.2 or later, from Apple Computer, -- you must have a valid Internet return mail address. This stack includes a simple sequence editor, so you can enter your sequence directly here, and it includes features to read from disk a variety of sequence formats. The Search card then takes whatever sequence you have in the Editor card, bundles that with some information on how to perform the search, and sends it off thru the Internet network using SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) methods. For the Fetch card, you need to supply an Accession number or GenBank Locus name, which is send off by SMTP to another maildrop at the GenBank computer. GenBank Search stack is available via anonymous FTP to Iubio.Bio.Indiana.Edu, cd [archive.molbio.mac], Get GBSearch.Hqx. This file is a binhex encoding of a stuffit archive of the stack. -- Don Gilbert Don.Gilbert@iubio.bio.indiana.edu biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405, usa