The information from ACeDB release 1-21 is now available via Internet
Gopher from weeds.mgh.harvard.edu.
Once connected to the weeds.mgh.harvard.edu Gopher server select the
following menu item:
5. Arabidopsis Information (thale cress)/
--> 6. Caenorhabditis Inform/
7. Department of Molecular Biology, MGH/
Then the menus will change to:
--> 1. Help Searching the "<?>" databases.
2. ACEDB, A Caenorhabditis elegans Database (1-21) <?>
3. C. elegans Strains and Alleles (University of Texas)/
4. Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC)/
See the Help document for more details on performing searches. The
ACEDB release 1-21 physcial map is also included in a text format. For
example: select menu item 2 and entering K09A10 . The search result
will be shown as:
--> 1. Clone_Pic : K09A10.
2. Contig : ctg1.
The Clone_Pic item looks like:
Clone_Pic : K09A10
Member of Contig: ctg1
Contig: ctg1 limits: -154 to 436
Limits of this partial view are: -117 to 53
----------------------Y48E9----------------------
---------------Y67G4---------------
-----------------------------------Y53C6-----------------------------------
-------------Y48A8-------------
-----Y27H10-----
------Y68B7------
---K05C4---
--R10E1--
---C43D5---
----F14B11----
====K09A10====
-------------------Y54F6!-------------------
---T10A7---
-----C13G1-----
---SG25/36---
------K05G4------
-SG23/3-
------C03C9------
This release of ACEDB include many abstracts from the Worm Breeder's
Gazette so you can search for general terms like kinase, neuro* or
homeo* to find several items of interest.
The Gopher .Link entry, for those that like this form, is:
Type=7
Name=ACEDB, A Caenorhabditis elegans Database (1-21)
Path=7/.index/Caenorhabditis_elegans_Genome
Host=weeds.mgh.harvard.edu
Port=70
The ACEDB software for Unix X-windows and the ACeDB database is
developed and maintained by Richard Durbin (MRC-LMB, U.K.) and Jean
Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, France).
Durbin R and Thierry-Mieg J (1991). A C elegans Database Documentation
code and data available from Anonymous FTP servers at lirmm.lirmm.fr,
cele.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk and ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
Mike Cherry
cherry at frodo.mgh.harvard.edu
