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- GENE-SERVER
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Dr. Dan Davison
- BCHS-5500
- Dept. of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences
- University of Houston
- 4800 Calhoun, Houston, Tx, 77204-5500
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- _E_m_a_i_l: davison@uh.edu (Internet), DAVISON@UHOU (Bitnet)
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (713) 743-8366 (Dr. Davison)
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Gene-Server is a mail response facility that will return
- a specific GenBank (tm) entry requested via e-mail.
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- Other Services:
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- The server now distributes Protein Information Resource
- (PIR, also known as NBRF) protein sequence database entries.
- The VMS and ASCII versions of PIR are available for
- anonymous FTP as well as via Gopher.
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- Molecular biology software for Apple Macintosh, DOS, Unix
- and VAX-VMS computers is also available from the server.
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- A number of information files (the R. Roberts Restriction
- Enzyme database; sequence analysis reference, and such) are
- distributed.
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- The Matrix of Biological Knowledge Archive-Server files are
- now available only from this address.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- The server can be accessed via e-mail on the Internet, BIT-
- NET, and UUCP networks. The addresses to use are:
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- August 13, 1992 NNSC Section 3.1, Page 1
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- gene-server@bchs.uh.edu (Internet)
- bchs.uh.edu!genbank-server (Usenet)
- gene-server%bchs.uh.edu@CUNYVM (BITNET)
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- Please be aware that a mail response program is not "smart"
- and can only respond to a limited set of commands. GenBank
- entries are available by name and accession number only.
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- Your request can consist of one of the following:
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- HELP
- SEND HELP
- SEND GB-LOCUS genbanklocusname
- SEND INDEX indexname
- SEND ACCESSION accession_number
- SEND ACCESSION accessionumber(s)
- SEND KEYWORD genbankkeyword
- SEND PIR-KEYWORD pirkeyword
- SEND PIR-ACCESSION piraccessionnumber(s)
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- There are many other parameters for specific subsets of the
- Gene-Server, please see the individual HELP files.
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- "HELP" will result in a small help file being sent back;
- everyone should request the help message. The file will
- contain up-to-date information about the server, access,
- release numbers, and policies. The help message also
- includes all index names, so "SEND INDEX" no longer works.
- "SEND INDEX index_name" (where "index_name" is one of the
- index files listed in the HELP message) will work. "SEND
- LOCUS genbank_locus_name" will return via e-mail the
- requested locus if it exists, and an error message if it
- does not. Use the index file in the HELP message to find
- the name of the entry, or use the accession number.
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- Note that large GenBank entries (Lambda, EBV, tobacco and
- liverwort chloroplasts) may not make it through the thread
- of mailers. UUCP mailers, in particular, silently enforce a
- limit of 64,000 characters in a single mail message. Note
- also that Usenet mail is very unreliable; you should con-
- sult the "pathalias" database to construct a mail path from
- your machine to bchs.uh.edu. A local Unix mail wizard may
- be able to help.
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- The Gene-Server itself silently enforces a limit of one
- megabyte on a reply. Please do not ask for a lot of software
- or data in a single message.
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: "gene-server@bchs.uh.edu" is an MX record.
- If you have problems reaching that address, ask your local
- system mail expert how to handle addresses that are "MX
- records." As a "very" last resort, send email to one of the
- addresses given above.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _G_e_n_e-_S_e_r_v_e_r
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- Anyone can use the catalog.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s
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- The current version of GenBank on the server is Release 64.
- The server is updated as often as possible given funding
- (none) and disk space constraints. The server may be
- updated daily in the future.
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- Information and software is exchanged regularly with the
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) File Server,
- and the molbio ftp sites, "ftp.bchs.uh.edu" and
- "nic.funet.fi"; but the specific files, syntax, and informa-
- tion vary between the four servers.
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- The server contains a simple response to someone asking for
- too many loci or otherwise abusing the service: it stops
- working for them.
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- Questions can be sent to davison@uh.edu (Internet) or
- DAVISON@UHOU(BITNET). Requests to talk to a human rather
- than a mail response program should be sent to archive-
- management@bchs.uh.edu. By popular demand, archive-
- managment@bchs.uh.edu also works.
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- This service is provided by the Institute for Molecular
- Biology, the Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sci-
- ences, and is funded by the National Science Foundation.
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- The server is not funded or related in any with the DHHS,
- PHS, National Institutes of Health, or its contractors or
- subcontractors on the GenBank contract. GenBank is a trade-
- mark of the US Department of Health and Human Services, US
- Public Health Service.
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