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THE BIOSCI ELECTRONIC NEWSGROUP NETWORK INFORMATION SHEET
(last revised 09-JUN-95)
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This is the BIOSCI information sheet for the Americas and Pacific Rim
countries. If you are located in Europe, Africa, or Central Asia,
please retrieve that version of the information sheet by sending the
command
info ukinfo
in the body of an e-mail message addressed to the Internet address
biosci-server at net.bio.net
Any text placed on the Subject: line of your message is ignored, so
please be sure to put the "info ukinfo" command in the main body of
your e-mail message.
New users of BIOSCI/bionet may want to read the "Frequently Asked
Questions" or "FAQ" sheet for BIOSCI. The FAQ provides details on how
to participate in these forums and is available by gopher to
net.bio.net or anonymous FTP to net.bio.net [134.172.2.69] in
pub/BIOSCI/doc/biosci.FAQ. It may also be requested by sending e-mail
to biosci-server at net.bio.net as described above except that the
command
info faq
should be used in the body of the mail message. The FAQ is also
posted on the first of each month to the newsgroup
BIONEWS/bionet.announce immediately following the posting of both
versions of the BIOSCI information sheet.
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Contents of this Document
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Introduction
List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics
BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders
Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software
Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail
E-mail Subscription Requests and other Information
E-mail Address Changes
Interruption of E-mail Service
Posting Messages to Newsgroups by E-mail
Retrieval of old postings from the BIOSCI archives
BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups
Retrieving Other BIOSCI Documentation
Introduction
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The BIOSCI newsgroup network was developed to allow easy worldwide
communications between biological scientists who work on a variety of
computer networks. BIOSCI is supported by the National Science
Foundation, Department of Energy, and National Institutes of Health in
the U.S.A. and by the CCL Daresbury Laboratory in the United Kingdom.
BIOSCI services are available to users free of charge.
BIOSCI messages are distributed by two means: USENET news software and
electronic mail.
WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL INTERESTED USERS TO EXPLORE GETTING "USENET
NEWS" SOFTWARE AT YOUR SITE. The software is in the public domain,
and you will find it much more convenient than subscribing to
newsgroups by e-mail. Please consult your systems manager (the
software may already be available on a machine at your institution) or
contact biosci-help at net.bio.net for a list of software available free
of charge on the Internet. NOTE, however, that the installation and
maintenance of news software requires the assistance of a trained
systems operator in most cases and is not a task to be undertaken by a
computer novice.
Why is news software preferable to e-mail? News software recovers
messages automatically after network interruptions, whereas your e-mail
address may have to be removed from the subscription list at times if
your computer/network malfunctions and undelivered mail starts
bouncing back to the BIOSCI administrative sites. You will have to
manually retrieve lost messages from the archives if your e-mail
subscription is suspended.
News software organizes messages by topic and subtopic for easy
browsing. In contrast if you subscribe by e-mail to more than one
discussion list, messages from multiple lists arrive into your
personal mail file in chronological order of posting only and are
mixed in with your personal messages. You have to connect the
discussion threads yourself if you use e-mail.
In summary, e-mail participation should be seen as a LAST RESORT to be
used only if news software can not be installed locally.
Fortunately, BIOSCI offers advantages for e-mail users too. By having
distribution sites or "nodes" on each major network, BIOSCI allows its
e-mail users to contact people around the world without having to
learn a variety of computer addressing tricks. Any user can simply
post a message to his/her regional BIOSCI node and copies of that
message will be distributed automatically to all other subscribers on
all of the participating networks, including the Internet, USENET,
BITNET, EARN, NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET.
List of BIOSCI Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
-------------------------------------------
BIOSCI messages are distributed on the newsgroups in the "bionet"
hierarchy of USENET and on the corresponding mailing lists indicated
below. Contents of the USENET newsgroups and the e-mail distributions
are *identical*, i.e., messages sent in by e-mail are also forwarded
to USENET and messages posted to USENET newsgroups are also
distributed to e-mail subscribers.
An expanded description of the purpose of each newsgroup follows this
list.
MAILING LIST NAME USENET Newsgroup Name
----------------- ---------------------
ACEDB-SOFT bionet.software.acedb
AFCR ** bionet.prof-society.afcr
AGEING bionet.molbio.ageing
AGROFORESTRY bionet.agroforestry
AMYLOID bionet.neuroscience.amyloid
ARABIDOPSIS bionet.genome.arabidopsis
ASCB ** bionet.prof-society.ascb
AUDIOLOGY bionet.audiology
BIOCAN bionet.prof-society.cfbs
BIOFORUM bionet.general
BIO-INFORMATION-THEORY + bionet.info-theory
BIONAUTS bionet.users.addresses
BIONEWS ** bionet.announce
BIO-JOURNALS ** bionet.journals.contents
BIO-MATRIX bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** bionet.prof-society.biophysics
BIOPHYSICS bionet.biophysics
BIO-SOFTWARE bionet.software
BIO-SRS bionet.software.srs
BIOTHERMOKINETICS bionet.metabolic-reg
BIO-WWW ** bionet.software.www
CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH bionet.biology.cardiovascular
CELEGANS bionet.celegans
CELL-BIOLOGY bionet.cellbiol
CHLAMYDOMONAS bionet.chlamydomonas
CHROMOSOMES bionet.genome.chromosomes
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** bionet.biology.computational
CSM ** bionet.prof-society.csm
CYTONET bionet.cellbiol.cytonet
DIAGNOSTICS bionet.diagnostics
DROSOPHILA bionet.drosophila
EMBL-DATABANK bionet.molbio.embldatabank
EMF-BIO bionet.emf-bio
EMPLOYMENT bionet.jobs
EMPLOYMENT-WANTED bionet.jobs.wanted
FASEB ** bionet.prof-society.faseb
FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS bionet.molbio.proteins.fluorescent
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR bionet.molbio.proteins.7tms_r
GDB bionet.molbio.gdb
GENBANK-BB bionet.molbio.genbank
GENETIC-LINKAGE bionet.molbio.gene-linkage
GLYCOSCI bionet.glycosci
GRASSES-SCIENCE bionet.biology.grasses
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY bionet.molbio.hiv
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM bionet.molbio.genome-program
IMMUNOLOGY bionet.immunology
INFO-GCG bionet.software.gcg
INSULIN-ACTION ** bionet.cellbiol.insulin
JOURNAL-NOTES bionet.journals.note
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
MICROBIOLOGY bionet.microbiology
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION bionet.molbio.evolution
MOLECULAR-MODELLING bionet.molec-model
MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS bionet.molbio.molluscs
MYCOLOGY bionet.mycology
NEUROSCIENCE bionet.neuroscience
N2-FIXATION bionet.biology.n2-fixation
PARASITOLOGY bionet.parasitology
PHOTOSYNTHESIS bionet.photosynthesis
PLANT-BIOLOGY bionet.plants
POPULATION-BIOLOGY bionet.population-bio
PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS bionet.diagnostics.prenatal
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS bionet.molbio.proteins
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY bionet.xtallography
PROTISTA bionet.protista
RAPD bionet.molbio.rapd
SCHISTOSOMA bionet.organisms.schistosoma
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** bionet.sci-resources
STADEN bionet.software.staden
STRUCTURAL-NMR bionet.structural-nmr
SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH bionet.biology.symbiosis
TIBS ** bionet.journals.letters.tibs
TOXICOLOGY bionet.toxicology
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY bionet.biology.tropical
URODELES bionet.organisms.urodeles
VIROLOGY bionet.virology
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY bionet.women-in-bio
X-PLOR bionet.software.x-plor
YEAST bionet.molbio.yeast
ZBRAFISH bionet.organisms.zebrafish
+ full name is BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings
are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages
(possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup.
List of BIOSCI Newsgroup Topics
-------------------------------
MAILING LIST NAME TOPIC
----------------- -----
ACEDB-SOFT Discussions by users and developers of genome
databases using the ACEDB software.
AFCR ** American Federation for Clinical Research
announcements
AGEING Discussions about ageing research
AGROFORESTRY Discussions about agroforestry research
AMYLOID Forum for researchers on Alzheimer's
disease and related disorders
including prion diseases
ARABIDOPSIS Newsgroup for the Arabidopsis Genome Project
ASCB ** Announcements from The American Society
for Cell Biology
AUDIOLOGY Topics in audiology and hearing science
BIOFORUM Discussions about biological topics for
which there is not yet a dedicated newsgroup
BIOCAN Newsgroup for the Canadian Federation of
Biological Societies (CFBS)
BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-
THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Applications of information theory to
biology; this group is not for general
information or for discussion of
theories in general.
BIONAUTS Question/answer forum for help using
electronic networks, locating e-mail
addresses, etc.
BIONEWS ** General announcements of widespread
interest to biologists
BIO-JOURNALS ** Tables of Contents of biological journals
BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** Official announcements/information from the
Biophysical Society.
BIOPHYSICS Discussion of issues related to the
science and profession of biophysics
BIO-SOFTWARE Information on software for the biological
sciences
BIO-SRS Discussions about the Sequence Retrieval
System (SRS) software
BIOTHERMOKINETICS Discussions about the kinetics, thermodynamics
and control of biological processes at
the cellular level
BIO-WWW ** Announcements about new information
resources in biology which can be
accessed via electronic networked
information retrieval software
CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Research discussions in cardiovascular biology
CELEGANS Research discussions on the model organism
Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes
CELL-BIOLOGY Discussions about cell biology including
cancer research at the cellular level
CHLAMYDOMONAS Discussions about the biology of the green alga
Chlamydomonas and related genera
CHROMOSOMES Discussions about mapping and sequencing
of eucaryote chromosomes
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Mathematical and computer applications in biology
CSM ** Announcements from the Canadian Society
of Microbiologists.
CYTONET Discussions about research on the
cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, and
cell wall
DIAGNOSTICS Discussions of problems and techniques in
all fields of diagnostics
DROSOPHILA Discussions about biological research on
Drosophila
EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff
EMF-BIO Discussions about research on
electromagnetic field interactions
with biological systems
EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities in biology (see BIOSCI
FAQ *before* posting commercial job openings)
EMPLOYMENT-WANTED Forum for posting resumes/CVs by
individuals seeking employment in the
biological sciences or in support of the
biological sciences
FASEB ** Announcements from the Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology
FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS Research on fluorescent proteins and
bioluminescence
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Discussions about signal transducing
receptors which interact with G-proteins
GDB Messages to and from the Genome Data Bank staff
GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff
GENETIC-LINKAGE Newsgroup for genetic linkage analysis
GLYCOSCI Discussions about carbohydrate and
glycoconjugate molecules.
GRASSES-SCIENCE Discussions regarding grasses, especially
cereal, forage, and turf species
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Discussions about the molecular biology of HIV
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM NIH-sponsored newsgroup on human genome issues
IMMUNOLOGY Discussions about research in immunology
INFO-GCG Discussions about the GCG sequence
analysis software
INSULIN-ACTION ** Discussions about the biology and
chemistry of insulin and related
receptors.
JOURNAL-NOTES Practical advice on dealing with professional
journals
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents
MICROBIOLOGY Discussions about research in microbiology
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Discussions about research in molecular evolution
MOLECULAR-MODELLING Discussions about molecular modelling
MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS Discussions about research on mollusc DNA
MYCOLOGY Discussions about research on filamentous fungi
NEUROSCIENCE Discussions about research in the neurosciences
N2-FIXATION Discussion about biological nitrogen fixation
PARASITOLOGY Discussions about research in parasitology
PHOTOSYNTHESIS Discussions about photosynthesis research
PLANT-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in plant biology
POPULATION-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in population biology
PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS Discussions about research in prenatal
diagnostics
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Discussions about research on proteins and
messages for the PIR and SWISS-PROT databank
staffs
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Discussion about crystallography of macromolecules
and messages for the PDB staff
PROTISTA Discussions about research on ciliates
and other protists
RAPD Discussions about Randomly Amplified Polymorphic
DNA
SCHISTOSOMA Discussions about Schistosoma research
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** Information from/about scientific funding
agencies
STADEN Discussions between scientists using the
Staden molecular sequence analysis software
STRUCTURAL-NMR Discussions about the use of NMR for
macromolecular structure determination
SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH Discussions about symbiosis research
TIBS ** "Letters to the Editor" of "Trends in
Biochemical Sciences"
TOXICOLOGY Discussions about research in toxicology
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Discussions about research in tropical biology
URODELES Discussions about research in urodele
amphibian biology
VIROLOGY Discussions about research in virology
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Discussions about issues concerning women
biologists
X-PLOR Discussions about the X-PLOR software for
3D macromolecular structure determination
YEAST Discussions about the molecular biology
and genetics of yeast
ZBRAFISH Discussions about research using the model
organism Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated, i.e., postings
are directed to a moderator (editor) who later forwards messages
(possibly edited or condensed) to the newsgroup.
BIOSCI Newsgroup Discussion Leaders
-----------------------------------
Most scientific specialty newsgroups (except for a few created several
years ago) have individuals who are responsible for stimulating
discussion on the newsgroup. General purpose forums such as
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS do not have discussion leaders. If a group that
you are interested in does not seem to have much activity recently,
please contact the discussion leader and ask why.
NEWSGROUP NAME Discussion Leader and their e-mail address
-------------- ------------------------------------------
ACEDB-SOFT Mike Cherry (cherry at genome.stanford.edu)
AFCR ** Jon T. Schafer (pp001101 at interramp.com)
AGEING Sydney Shall (bafa1 at central.sussex.ac.uk)
AGROFORESTRY Gerry Lawson (F_GJL at vaxa.nerc-bush.ac.uk)
AMYLOID David Small (david_small at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au)
ARABIDOPSIS Chris Somerville (21847CRS at msu.edu)
ASCB ** Vincent Shan (moderator at faseb.org)
AUDIOLOGY Jeff Sirianni (sirianni at uts.cc.utexas.edu) and
Susan Moreland (smorelan at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
BIOCAN Leon Browder (browder at acs.ucalgary.ca)
BIOFORUM None
BIOLOGICAL-INFORMATION-
THEORY-AND-CHOWDER-SOCIETY Tom Schneider (toms at ncifcrf.gov)
BIONAUTS Rob Harper (harper at convex.csc.fi)
BIONEWS ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
BIO-JOURNALS ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
BIO-MATRIX Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
BIOPHYSICAL-SOCIETY ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
BIOPHYSICS Carol Gross (cgross at molbio.cbs.umn.edu)
BIO-SOFTWARE None
BIO-SRS Thure Etzold (etzold at embl-heidelberg.de) and
Reinhard Doelz (doelz at comp.bioz.unibas.ch)
BIOTHERMOKINETICS John Woods (eanv20 at castle.edinburgh.ac.uk)
BIO-WWW ** Reinhard Doelz (bio-www at comp.bioz.unibas.ch)
CARDIOVASCULAR-RESEARCH Zhandong Zhou (zhandong at macc.wisc.edu)
CELEGANS William Morgan (wmorgan at acs.wooster.edu)
CELL-BIOLOGY Ola Myklebost (ola.myklebost at dnr.uio.no)
CHLAMYDOMONAS Elizabeth H. Harris (chlamy at acpub.duke.edu) and
Antonio R. Franco (bf1rodri at cc.uco.es)
CHROMOSOMES Bruce Roe (broe at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu) and
Greg Lennon (greg at mendel.llnl.gov)
COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY ** Phil J. Curtiss (curtiss at umiacs.umd.edu)
CSM ** Max Firtel and John Nash (csm at nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca)
CYTONET Nicholas C. Carpita (carpita at btny.purdue.edu)
DIAGNOSTICS Kevin O'Donnell (odonnell at sasa.gov.uk) and
Robert Burns (burns at sasa.gov.uk)
DROSOPHILA Michael Ashburner (m.ashburner at gen.cam.ac.uk)
EMBL-DATABANK None (datalib at embl-heidelberg.de)
EMF-BIO Allan H. Frey (afrey at uunet.uu.net)
EMPLOYMENT None
EMPLOYMENT-WANTED None
FASEB ** Vincent Shan (moderator at faseb.org)
FLUORESCENT-PROTEINS Paul Kitts (paulki at clontech.com)
Steve Kain (stevek at clontech.com)
G-PROTEIN-COUPLED-RECEPTOR Lee F. Kolakowski, Jr.
(lfk at receptor.mgh.harvard.edu)
GDB Kerryn Brandt (kab at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu)
GENBANK-BB Dennis Benson (benson at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
GENETIC-LINKAGE Steve Bryant (s_bryant at icrf.ac.uk)
GLYCOSCI Iain Wilson (iwilson at molbiol.ox.ac.uk) and
Barry Hardy (bhardy at convex.ox.ac.uk)
GRASSES-SCIENCE Allen Wright (adwright at iastate.edu)
HIV-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Mika Salminen (msalminen at nphi.fi)
HUMAN-GENOME-PROGRAM Jane Peterson (jp2 at cu.nih.gov)
IMMUNOLOGY Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
INFO-GCG John Cargill (ontogen at nic.cerf.net)
INSULIN-ACTION ** T. S. Pillay (tpillay at ucsd.edu)
JOURNAL-NOTES Donald Forsdyke (forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca)
METHODS-AND-REAGENTS None
MICROBIOLOGY Martin Latterich (mdhouse at mendel.berkeley.edu)
MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Dan Davison (davison at uh.edu)
MOLECULAR-MODELLING Philippe Stas (philstas at vub.ac.be)
MOLLUSC-MOLECULAR-NEWS Elizabeth Grace Boulding (boulding at uoguelph.ca)
MYCOLOGY Tom Adams (tom at bio.tamu.edu)
Leland Ellis (leland at straylight.tamu.edu)
Greg May (gsmay at bcm.tmc.edu)
NEUROSCIENCE Vincent A Mazzarella (vamg6792 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
James L. Olds (olds at bernard.ninds.nih.gov)
N2-FIXATION Eng-Leong Foo
(eng-leong_foo_mircen-ki%micforum at mica.mic.ki.se)
PARASITOLOGY Daniel R. Brooks, Sherwin S. Desser and
Henry Hong (parasite at zoo.toronto.edu)
PHOTOSYNTHESIS Johnathan Marder (marder at agri.huji.ac.il)
PLANT-BIOLOGY Tony Travis (ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk)
POPULATION-BIOLOGY None
PRENATAL-DIAGNOSTICS Aneal Chandra (chandra at cardiff.ac.uk) and
David Miller (davidm at pathology.leeds.ac.uk) and
Tim Reynolds (timreyno at burton.demon.co.uk)
PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Amos Bairoch (bairoch at cmu.unige.ch) and
John Garavelli (garavelli at nbrf.georgetown.edu)
PROTEIN-CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Morten Kjeldgaard (morten at oase.kemi.aau.dk)
PROTISTA Marsha Altschule
(marsha.i.altschuler at williams.edu) and
Mark Farmer (farmer at emlab.zoo.uga.edu)
RAPD James Farmer (farmerj at yvax.byu.edu)
SCHISTOSOMA Werner Kunz (Werner.Kunz at uni-duesseldorf.de) and
Christoph Grevelding
(Christoph.Grevelding at uni-duesseldorf.de) and
Lutz Gohr (Lutz.Gohr at uni-duesseldorf.de)
SCIENCE-RESOURCES ** David Kristofferson (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
STADEN Tim Littlejohn (tim at bch.umontreal.ca)
STRUCTURAL-NMR C. S. Raman (raman at bioc01.uthscsa.edu)
SYMBIOSIS-RESEARCH James F. White, Jr. (epichloe at tango.aum.edu)
TIBS ** Jo McEntyre (TIBS at elsevier.co.uk) and
David Kristofferson (biosci-help at net.bio.net)
TOXICOLOGY Charles A. Miller (rellim at mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu)
TROPICAL-BIOLOGY Matti Nummelin (mnummelin at cc.helsinki.fi)
URODELES Susan Duhon (duhon at ucs.indiana.edu) and
Anthony Mescher (mescher at ucs.indiana.edu)
VIROLOGY Robert Coelen (robert at arbo.microbiol.uwa.oz.au)
WOMEN-IN-BIOLOGY Cassandra Smith (cls at buenga.bu.edu)
X-PLOR Axel T. Brunger (brunger at laplace.csb.yale.edu)
YEAST Francis Ouellette (francis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
ZBRAFISH Richard Vogt (vogt at biol.scarolina.edu) and
Una Smith (smith-una at yale.edu)
** Note that newsgroups flagged with ** are moderated.
Participating in BIOSCI Using USENET News Software
--------------------------------------------------
Users who have access to USENET news software and the bionet USENET
groups can participate immediately, i.e., they do not need to
"subscribe" to anything. They can read and reply to messages using
their local news software (e.g., "nn" or "rn") and post new messages
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Users will have to consult their local systems managers for help in
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Fortunately, most news software is fairly simple to use and can be
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When posting new messages, USENET users should be sure to set the
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"moderated," however. This means that postings to these newsgroups
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Participating in BIOSCI by E-mail
---------------------------------
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E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION!! Simply read and post to the newsgroups in the
"bionet" newsgroup hierarchy using your USENET news software.
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BIOSCI "prototype" newsgroups
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bigblue at net.bio.net Discussions between researchers who use
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radoncjc at net.bio.net Radiation Oncology journal club (moderated list)
rna at net.bio.net Discussions about RNA editing, RNA splicing,
and ribozyme activities of RNA.
rust-mil at net.bio.net Research about the biotrophic foliar fungal
diseases of cereals, including rusts,
powdery mildews and downy mildews.
yac at net.bio.net Discussions about yeast artificial chromosomes.
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