Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!cunyvm.cuny.edu!NOREILLY%IRLEARN.BITNET From: NOREILLY%IRLEARN.UCD.IE@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ("Niall O'Reilly ", NOREILLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: New BIOSCI Node in Ireland Message-ID: <8810180447.AA12327@presto.ig.com> Date: 17 Oct 88 09:26:09 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Reply-To: BIOSCI%IRLEARN.BIT...@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Lines: 143 Niall O'Reilly University College Dublin Computer Centre BIOSCI Node at University College Dublin, Ireland October 1988 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Irish National EARN node, IRLEARN has joined the internation- al network of BIOSCI nodes which provide electronic mail distri- bution and bulletin board services for biotechnologists. IRLEARN is the fourth such node to date, joining others at the BIONET National Computer Resource for Molecular Biology, Mountain View, California for subscribers in the Americas, Daresbury for subscribers in the United Kingdom (mainly on JANET), and the Biomedical Centre, University of Uppsala, Sweden for subscribers in Scandinavia (mainly on NORDUNET). IRLEARN will be the primary distribution point for EARN users, and will also serve users of the Irish Academic Network, HEANET. BIOSCI services provided from IRLEARN will include: automatic distribution to BIOSCI subscribers at all BIOSCI nodes of electronic mail messages sent to a BIOSCI address at IRLEARN; automatic distribution to BIOSCI subscribers at IRLEARN of electronic mail messages sent to a BIOSCI address at any oth- er BIOSCI node; a BIOSCI archive from which collections of recent BIOSCI mes- sages may be retrieved by network users; BIOSCI bulletin boards which will give local IRLEARN users access to the BIOSCI archive. It is expected that the archive and bulletin boards will hold the messages of the current month and those of the immediately previ- ous month. Several different BIOSCI addresses for electronic mail will be available at IRLEARN, as at the other BIOSCI nodes. Each address is intended for messages on a particular topic, and all current addresses are shown below. If the computer which you use for electronic mail is connected to EARN (or to BITNET or NETNORTH) then you can send mail to any of the addresses listed below at node IRLEARN. If it is connected to some other network, you should send to the desired address at node IRLEARN.UCD.IE (preferred) or IRLEARN.BITNET. Each address also has a corresponding distribution list at IRLEARN, automatically managed by the Revised LISTSERV software. This software allows network users to become subscribers to any of the distribution lists, and so to receive electronic mail mes- sages sent to the corresponding BIOSCI mail address at IRLEARN or at any of the other BIOSCI nodes. You may, of course, subscribe to as many of these distribution lists as you wish. The command to use to subscribe to one of these lists is SUBSCRIBE listname personal-name where listname is the name of a distribution list, and personal-name is your personal name (not your login name, or mail address) and the command may be sent either in the body of an electronic mail message to LISTSERV@IRLEARN, or using the VM/CMS TELL or VAX/VMS SEND command. The distribution list names are also shown below, together with the corresponding addresses. Certain BIOSCI nodes can use longer mail addresses than is possi- ble at IRLEARN. These 'long' addresses (of which one is actually shorter!) are also shown below, with the corresponding IRLEARN addresses and distribution list names. The BIOSCI addresses for electronic mail at IRLEARN are listed below, together with the corresponding distribution list names, the 'long' addresses just mentioned, and the topics for discus- sion. IRLEARN Distribution Long Address (for reference only) Address List and Topic BIONEWS $BIONEWS BIONEWS General announcements BIOMATRX $BIOMATR BIO-MATRIX Applications of computers to biological databases BIOTECH $BIOTECH BIOTECH Biotechnology Issues SOFT-CON SOFT$CON CONTRIBUTED-SOFTWARE Information on molecular biology programs contributed to the public domain EMBL-DB EMBL$DB EMBL-DATABANK Messages to and from the EMBL database staff BIOJOBS $BIOJOBS EMPLOYMENT Job opportunities GENBANKB $GENBANK GENBANK-BB Messages to and from the GenBank database staff GENE-EXP GENE$EXP GENE-EXPRESSION Scientific Interest Group GENE-ORG GENE$ORG GENOMIC-ORGANIZATION Scientific Interest Group METHODS $METHODS METHODS-AND-REAGENTS Requests for information and lab reagents MOL-EVOL MOL$EVOL MOLECULAR-EVOLUTION Scientific Interest Group ONCOGENE $ONCOGEN ONCOGENES Scientific Interest Group SOFT-COM SOFT$COM PC-COMMUNICATIONS Information on communications software SOFT-PC SOFT$PC PC-SOFTWARE Information on PC-software for scientists PIR-BB PIR$BB PIR Messages to and from the PIR database staff PLANT $PLANT PLANT-MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY Scientific Interest Group PROTEINS $PROTEIN PROTEIN-ANALYSIS Scientific Interest Group RESEARCH $RESEARC RESEARCH-NEWS Research news of interest to the community SCI-RES SCI$RES SCIENCE-RESOURCES Information about funding agencies, etc. SWISSPRT $SWISSPR SWISS-PROT Messages to and from the SWISS-PROT database staff YEAST $YEAST YEAST-GENETICS Scientific Interest Group