1 January 1994
NUS-NCI CancerNet
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As a collaboration between the National University of Singapore
and the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MA, a new secondary
site for the NCI CancerNet files has been set up at biomed.nus.sg
in Singapore.
The following services are fairly stable and have been online for about
two months.
Gopher: gopher biomed.nus.sg
(or gopher biomed.nus.sg 70 )
and navigate to the NUS-NCI CancerNet option
The gopherd server is the modified version from
Don Gilbert, IUBio, Indiana University.
World Wide Web: URL: http://biomed.nus.sg:80/
and navigate to the NUS-NCI CancerNet options
The following are more recent (please send bug reports):
Mail server: Send the following message to bioserve at biomed.nus.sg
CANCERNETHELP
or for cn-xxxxxx files, where xxxxxx is the number of the
CancerNet file
CANCERNET
cn-xxxxxx
Note that the CancerNet Gopher directory can also be
browsed and the CancerNet GOPHER-WAIS be searched via
our generic mailgopher service: send email to
bioserve at biomed.nus.sg or mailgopher at biomed.nus.sg
with the message GOPHERHELP
WAIS: The cancernet.src is attached below.
All keywords entered are searched on "or" basis. Other
Boolean operators are also acceptable, eg. the following
keyword combinations:
cervix and treatment
lymphoma not intermediate
Also, the search allows truncation eg. cervi*
which will include both the keywords cervical and cervix.
The waisindexer used is from Don Gilbert, Indiana Univ.
This waisindex is accessible from the gopher menu
(last item) as well as from the web menu.
It is of course accessible from a wais client
eg. waissearch, xwais, swais, etc.
If you try it, you will find that the titles of the
hits are not very meaningful, ie. only the numbers
are returned. Work is in progress.
The cancernet.src file is as follows: Edit it and cut out from
parenthesis to parenthesis.
(:source
:version 3
:ip-address "137.132.9.61"
:ip-name "biomed.nus.sg"
:tcp-port 210
:database-name "cancernet"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "bchtantw at leonis.nus.sg"
:description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b5 on Jan 1 22:40:31 1994 by waisguy at biomed.nus.sg
NUS-NCI CancerNet WAIS source
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A collaboration between the Biocomputing Research and User Support
(BRUS) technology group, National University of Singapore (NUS)
and the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
For enquiries about the CancerNet WAIS source,
please contact Dr Tan Tin Wee, bchtantw at leonis.nus.sg
For enquiries about the CancerNet files,
please contact Cheryl Burg, cheryl at icicb.nci.nih.gov
"
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Tan Tin Wee, PhD / Internet email: bchtantw at leonis.nus.sg
Department of Biochemistry,
and Biocomputing Research and User Support (BRUS)
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge / Phone & voicemail : (65)-772-3678
Singapore 0511 / Facsimile : (65)-779-1453
