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- From: POSTMASTER@NBRF.GEORGETOWN.EDU
- Newsgroups: bionet.software
- Subject: Announcement of PIR Technical Development News
- Message-ID: <01GTA1CICIRG8WVZBL@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 17:59:01 GMT
- Sender: daemon@net.bio.net
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- Announcement of the Protein Information Resource
- Technical Development News
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- We have on-going efforts to standardize the PIR databases, improving their
- parsability and compliance with CODATA and other format standards. During
- the next year the combined staffs of the PIR-International will be imposing
- and enforcing many new rules and requirements on the distributed versions of
- the database. Some of these rules and requirements may affect the currently
- existing software designed to read the PIR databases in "NBRF format".
- Notification of the broader aspects of these changes will be placed in our
- newsletters and in announcements posted on the BioSci Newsgroups PROTEINS and
- BIONEWS. However, some people may wish to be informed about the technical
- aspects of these changes before they appear in a database release. For that
- reason we will be setting up an electronic mailing list to inform software
- developers and others interested in the technical aspects of these database
- changes.
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- If you would be interested in being placed on this mailing list, please send
- a brief electronic mail note to me at one of the network addresses below.
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- Dr. John S. Garavelli
- Database Coordinator
- Protein Information Resource
- National Biomedical Research Foundation
- Washington, DC 20007
- POSTMAST@GUNBRF.BITNET
- POSTMASTER@NBRF.Georgetown.Edu
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